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Sage Estate Preserve

Sage Estate Preserve from directly overhead

Sage Estate Preserve is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 63 m. Rocky Hill stands 625 m to the east, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Ganser Smith Memorial Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Mohawk Towpath Byway passes 6.1 miles off.

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What to expect

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Village of Menands

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Coordinates42.69172, -73.73495

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Ganser Smith Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
  • Weare C. Little Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
  • South Menands Pocket Park: 0.7 mi
  • Polk Switzer Park: 0.8 mi
  • Hutton Street Park: 0.9 mi
Historic sites
  • Police K-9 Memorial: 0.6 mi
  • dam: 1.1 mi
  • dam: 1.2 mi
  • dam: 1.2 mi
  • Colonel Philip Schuyler House Foundations: 1.7 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
Museums: 48
Waterfalls: 38
  • Corning Cascade Falls: 2.3 mi
  • Lower Burden Falls: 2.3 mi
  • Upper Burden Falls: 2.4 mi
  • Lower Burden Falls: 3.0 mi
  • Smart's Cascade: 3.0 mi
Gardens: 35
  • Linden Grove Cremation Garden: 0.7 mi
  • Stow Hill: 1.9 mi
  • Memorial Garden: 2.1 mi
  • Edna Joyce Garden of Hope: 2.3 mi
  • Ten Broeck Mansion Gardens: 2.4 mi
Artworks: 30
Attractions: 28
  • Philip Schuyler Grave: 0.8 mi
  • Corning Plot: 0.9 mi
  • Daniel Manning Grave: 0.9 mi
  • Erastus Dow Palmer Grave: 0.9 mi
  • William Paterson Grave: 1.1 mi
Cliffs: 12
Beaches: 6
Springs: 3
  • Spring Avenue Spring: 3.4 mi
  • Bathtub Spring: 14.6 mi
  • Pond off Chair Factory Road: 25.0 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Rest Area I-87 (South Bound): 7.2 mi
  • Clifton Park Rest Area: 13.0 mi
  • Rest Area I-90 (West Bound): 13.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.7 miles of Sage Estate Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Rocky HillE 98°625 m18.2 mi
Perigo HillE 97°571 m13.8 mi
Buck RockESE 103°562 m18.1 mi
The GipfelESE 106°561 m14.0 mi
Filkins HillWSW 250°550 m18.7 mi
Johnson HillESE 117°537 m15.5 mi
Dickinson HillENE 67°537 m17.7 mi
Buckwheat HillESE 117°530 m16.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3019:07
June solstice05:1819:5420:37
September equinox06:4318:1718:54
December solstice07:2315:3916:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262836496170757366534232
Precip in2.62.42.93.13.84.64.63.93.84.22.83.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Troy L&D, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1341355306

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