Salt Springs State Park
Salt Springs State Park is a nature reserve in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 400 m. Slocum Hill stands 612 m to the east-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Salt Springs, a spring 0.4 miles away. Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway passes 14 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks
How to reach it
- 14.0 mi off the Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway
- 24.8 mi off the Gateway to the Endless Mountains
Named places within 25 miles
- Franklin Forks Park: 1.4 mi
- The Green in Montrose: 5.3 mi
- Montrose Park: 5.6 mi
- Heart Park: 5.7 mi
- Franklin Avenue Park: 7.4 mi
- Stonecrop Hill: 3.1 mi
- Birchard Hill: 4.6 mi
- Carr Hill: 6.2 mi
- Roundtop: 6.8 mi
- Brady Hill: 7.0 mi
- State Game Lands Number 175: 6.9 mi
- State Game Lands Number 35: 8.9 mi
- Skyline Drive State Forest: 10.1 mi
- Hawkins Pond State Forest: 12.7 mi
- Binghamton University Nature Preserve: 13.0 mi
- A Very Old Barn: 0.5 mi
- The Top: 8.7 mi
- Ross Park Carousel: 11.6 mi
- banks Susquehanna River: 12.1 mi
- Priesthood Restoration Site: 12.4 mi
- I Love NY Sculpture: 8.9 mi
- The Skirmisher: 12.8 mi
- Dickinson Object: 13.1 mi
- Bent of Tau Beta Pi: 13.2 mi
- Cirrus Statue: 13.2 mi
- Chimney: 9.0 mi
- Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood: 12.3 mi
- Martin Luther King Jr.: 13.2 mi
- Harpur Statue: 13.4 mi
- Harry L. Johnson Memorial: 14.6 mi
- Kopernik Observatory & Science Center: 10.4 mi
- Roberson Museum & Science Center: 12.9 mi
- Phelps Mansion: 13.3 mi
- The Bundy Museum of History and Art: 13.5 mi
- Vestal Museum: 15.2 mi
- Salt Springs: 0.4 mi
- The Salt Spring: 0.4 mi
- Spencer Spring: 18.4 mi
- Pennsylvania Welcome Center: 8.1 mi
- Broome Gateway Rest Area: 8.9 mi
- Owego Rest Area: 24.3 mi
- Campus Garden: 12.5 mi
- Outdoor Biological Research Facility: 13.1 mi
- Laurel Ave Community Garden: 13.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.8 miles of Salt Springs State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slocum Hill | ESE 104° | 612 m | 16.6 mi |
| Cork Hill | WNW 299° | 577 m | 11.8 mi |
| Ingraham Hill | NNW 339° | 556 m | 11.2 mi |
| Birchard Hill | SSE 162° | 555 m | 4.6 mi |
| Lucky Hill | NNW 337° | 550 m | 8.6 mi |
| Stonecrop Hill | ENE 68° | 549 m | 3.1 mi |
| Brady Hill | N 351° | 545 m | 7.0 mi |
| Wolf Hill | SE 131° | 544 m | 9.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:08 | 18:39 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 05:29 | 20:01 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:51 | 16:36 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 22 | 23 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 68 | 67 | 59 | 48 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Montrose, 4 mi away.
- Eastern Newt43 obs
- partridgeberry17 obs
- red trillium16 obs
- hemlock varnish shelf16 obs
- Two-leaved Toothwort16 obs
- yellow trout lily14 obs
- green false hellebore14 obs
- common mugwort13 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/378235934
Day trips start here
- Endless Mountains · 22 mi
- Factoryville · 24 mi
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