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Roe Park

Roe Park from directly overhead

Roe Park is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 115 m. Schunnemunk Mountain stands 507 m to the west-southwest, 6.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Hudson Highlands Nature Center - Wildlife Education Campus, a museum 0.1 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 14 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.43654, -74.01485

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Parks
Peaks
  • Butter Hill: 1.0 mi
  • Deer Hill: 1.0 mi
  • Storm King Mountain: 1.1 mi
  • Sloop Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Whitehorse Mountain: 1.5 mi
Artworks
Cliffs
  • Eagle Cliff: 3.6 mi
  • Hell Hole: 7.8 mi
  • Lemon Squeezer: 13.8 mi
  • Scenic Overlook: 17.5 mi
  • Claudius Smith Den: 18.3 mi
Nature reserves
  • Open Space Conservancy: 5.6 mi
  • Open Space Conservancy: 5.9 mi
  • Hudson Highlands Land Trust: 5.9 mi
  • Garrison School Forest: 6.3 mi
  • Hudson Highlands Land Trust: 6.3 mi
Gardens: 51
  • Haldane School Garden: 3.3 mi
  • Boscobel Gardens: 4.3 mi
  • West Coast: 15.9 mi
  • Las Vegas: 15.9 mi
  • Middle America: 15.9 mi
Museums: 40
Attractions: 33
  • Dunderberg Spiral Railway: 10.9 mi
  • Timp-Torne Trail: 11.0 mi
  • Bowling Rocks: 14.5 mi
  • Rogue Riders: 15.9 mi
  • LEGO Build-A-Boat: 15.9 mi
Beaches: 11
Waterfalls: 8
  • LG waterfall: 16.8 mi
  • Rainbow Falls: 23.5 mi
  • Awosting Falls: 23.6 mi
  • Verkeerderkill Falls: 23.6 mi
  • Saw Mill Falls: 23.7 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • Wallkill Rest Area: 14.9 mi
  • East Fishkill Rest Area: 16.9 mi
  • Stormville Rest Area: 17.0 mi
  • Middletown Rest Area: 19.8 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Picnic sites: 3
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.1 miles of Roe Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Schunnemunk MountainWSW 240°507 m6.1 mi
South Beacon MountainNE 50°491 m4.8 mi
North Beacon MountainNE 45°465 m5.1 mi
Bald HillNE 48°456 m6.8 mi
Lambs HillNE 48°454 m6.0 mi
Spy RockS 186°441 m3.2 mi
Bull HillE 88°433 m3.1 mi
Crows NestSE 140°429 m2.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2319:5220:34
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:2015:4616:30

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283139506170757466554434
Precip in3.82.94.04.03.84.64.65.04.65.34.24.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — W PT, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Newt114 obs
  • Green Frog68 obs
  • Christmas fern52 obs
  • mountain laurel51 obs
  • American Toad50 obs
  • Common Garter Snake42 obs
  • striped maple42 obs
  • Pickerel Frog39 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/492414659

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