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Skenoh Island

Skenoh Island from directly overhead

Skenoh Island is a nature reserve in New York, at a recorded elevation of 210 m. Frost Hill stands 696 m to the southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Canandaigua City Pier, a park 0.2 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 24 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
210 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.87015, -77.27570

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Canandaigua City Pier: 0.2 mi
  • Atwater Meadows Park: 0.3 mi
  • Kershaw Park: 0.6 mi
  • Lakefront Park: 0.8 mi
  • Jefferson Park: 1.2 mi
Historic sites
Peaks
Attractions: 43
  • Original Stafford Schoolhouse: 9.9 mi
  • Rockwell Family Home Site: 10.4 mi
  • William Stafford Home: 10.4 mi
  • Russell Stoddard Sawmill & Dam: 10.6 mi
  • Bristol Mountain: 10.8 mi
Museums: 35
Nature reserves: 33
Artworks: 33
  • FLTG Golfball: 13.6 mi
  • Elmer: 14.6 mi
  • William Smith Sculpture: 14.6 mi
  • 'The Scissors' Sculpture: 14.8 mi
  • Elizabeth Blackwell Sculpture: 14.8 mi
Gardens: 28
  • North Entrance/Exit Lane Employee Parking Side Turf Area: 1.1 mi
  • Noth Entrance/Exit Lane Turf Area Customer Parking Area: 1.1 mi
  • Windscreen Island #6: 1.1 mi
  • Windscreen Island #5: 1.1 mi
  • Windscreen Island #4: 1.1 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Upper Falls: 6.5 mi
  • Honeoye Falls: 16.9 mi
  • Reynolds Gully Falls: 21.2 mi
  • Postcard Falls: 21.8 mi
  • Triphammer Falls: 24.7 mi
Beaches: 3
  • Kershaw Beach: 0.6 mi
  • Kershaw Park Small Marine Craft Launch Area: 0.7 mi
  • Bristol Harbour Beach: 9.1 mi
Cliffs: 3
Springs: 1
  • Klippel Spring: 23.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.6 miles of Skenoh Island. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Frost HillSW 218°696 m13.9 mi
Gannett HillSSW 210°690 m13.5 mi
Cleveland HillSSW 210°671 m15.4 mi
Canadice HillSW 223°671 m18.1 mi
Worden HillSW 219°666 m12.3 mi
High Point HillSSW 209°659 m17.7 mi
Quail HillSW 222°654 m13.7 mi
Stid HillSSW 214°635 m10.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4419:21
June solstice05:3120:0920:52
September equinox06:5718:3119:08
December solstice07:3715:5216:38

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252734455867727064524131
Precip in1.91.82.63.23.13.64.13.33.13.52.62.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Canandaigua 3 S, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Mallard43 obs
  • Ring-billed Gull33 obs
  • Snow Goose30 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle27 obs
  • Canada Goose21 obs
  • Western Honey Bee20 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee20 obs
  • bloodroot19 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/32026255

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