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State Game Lands Number 189

State Game Lands Number 189 from directly overhead

State Game Lands Number 189 is a nature reserve in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 308 m. Quakers Knob stands 443 m to the south, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Frankfort Mineral Springs, a waterfall 4.0 miles away. Ohio Lincoln Highway Historic Byway passes 12 miles off. 25 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
Pennsylvania Game Commission

How to reach it

Coordinates40.52862, -80.36542

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Clinton Park: 4.4 mi
  • Hopewell Community Park: 6.4 mi
  • North Landside Terrace: 6.6 mi
  • South Landside Terrace: 6.6 mi
  • North Airside Terrace: 6.6 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
Museums: 53
Gardens: 50
Peaks: 25
Attractions: 21
  • The Edgeworth Club: 9.4 mi
  • Giant Chair: 11.3 mi
  • Fern Hollow Nature Center: 11.3 mi
  • Urban Assault: 13.2 mi
  • Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort: 15.6 mi
Picnic sites: 10
  • Rider's Ridge: 4.9 mi
  • Boggs Trailhead Picnic Site: 7.6 mi
  • White Pine Grove: 12.9 mi
  • Picnic tables for Building 800: 17.7 mi
  • Picnic Tables for Building 500: 17.7 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Frankfort Mineral Springs: 4.0 mi
  • Snake Run: 13.3 mi
  • Purgatory Falls: 14.8 mi
  • Fredericktown Falls: 15.3 mi
  • Stewarts Falls: 15.8 mi
Cliffs: 4
Beaches: 3
  • BAB: 12.0 mi
  • Tiger Beach: 16.2 mi
  • Thornburg Beach: 16.6 mi
Springs: 1
  • Lacock Spring: 12.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of State Game Lands Number 189. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Quakers KnobS 191°443 m13.0 mi
Round KnobWNW 302°433 m18.9 mi
Big KnobNNE 33°423 m15.9 mi
Garrett HillS 174°420 m21.4 mi
Hannas KnobSSE 153°417 m21.9 mi
Stewart HillWNW 300°412 m9.7 mi
Norton HillWSW 246°408 m21.1 mi
Herron HillESE 103°384 m22.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2618:5819:34
June solstice05:5220:1520:56
September equinox07:1018:4419:20
December solstice07:4216:1516:58

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038506169737164524233
Precip in3.12.63.33.64.04.44.13.63.83.13.13.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Moon TWP, 8 mi away.

  • Virginia bluebells232 obs
  • large white trillium159 obs
  • Virginia Springbeauty158 obs
  • blue phlox136 obs
  • wild geranium119 obs
  • azure bluet117 obs
  • woodland stonecrop117 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage115 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.

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OpenStreetMap element way/391653520

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