State Game Lands Number 255
State Game Lands Number 255 is a nature reserve in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 291 m. The Winehead stands 724 m to the south-southeast, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Crystal Spring, a spring 1.8 miles away. Bucktail Trail passes 5.7 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Pennsylvania Game Commission
How to reach it
- 5.7 mi off the Bucktail Trail
- 16.7 mi off the High Plateau Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Hyner View · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mill Hall Veterans Memorial: 3.1 mi
- Lock Haven University Memorial: 5.5 mi
- Clinton County Civil War Monument: 5.8 mi
- Castenea War Memorial: 6.0 mi
- Canal Lock: 6.2 mi
- Beech Creek Community Park: 3.2 mi
- Mill Hall Park: 3.2 mi
- Beech Creek Community Park: 3.3 mi
- Bald Eagle Township Park: 3.3 mi
- Belles Springs Park: 3.6 mi
- Bunker Hill: 3.2 mi
- Round Top: 4.9 mi
- Big Mountain: 5.7 mi
- Big Mountain: 5.9 mi
- Hickory Knob: 7.0 mi
- Crystal Spring: 1.8 mi
- Lamey Spring: 1.8 mi
- Big Spring: 3.8 mi
- Steel Spring: 5.4 mi
- Big Rock Spring: 14.9 mi
- J. Doyle Corman Amphitheater and Floating Stage: 6.2 mi
- Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park: 14.2 mi
- Red Candle Island: 21.3 mi
- Deeded Square Inches: 22.9 mi
- Beer Tap: 23.0 mi
- Clinton Central Model Railroad Club: 6.1 mi
- Heisey House Museum: 6.2 mi
- Piper Aviation Museum: 6.6 mi
- Howard Area Museum Historical Society: 8.2 mi
- Miles-Humes House, Centre County Library & Historical Museum: 17.3 mi
- Northeast Fishery Center: 5.2 mi
- State Game Lands Number 92: 12.2 mi
- Torbert Island Natural Area: 14.6 mi
- Cranberry Swamp Natural Area: 15.9 mi
- East Branch Swamp Natural Area: 16.4 mi
- St. Agnes Picnic Grounds: 5.7 mi
- Lock Port Picnic and Boat Launch: 6.4 mi
- Hairy Johns PIcnic Area: 17.3 mi
- Tea Springs Picnic Area: 20.3 mi
- Snyder-Middleswarth Picnic Area: 22.6 mi
- "Holy Toledo" roadcut: 7.2 mi
- Fishery Point: 19.7 mi
- Chimney Rock Overlook: 20.1 mi
- The Rock: 21.9 mi
- Buck Point: 23.0 mi
- Bald Eagle Statue: 5.6 mi
- The Lorax Statue: 5.9 mi
- Via Air Mail: 17.4 mi
- Bells Across PA - "Stories of Our Railroad": 17.5 mi
- Honors to the Fallen: 24.9 mi
- Long Lane Flower & Garden: 13.3 mi
- Bellefonte Community Children's Garden: 17.3 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 24.4 mi
- The Giving Garden: 24.4 mi
- Penn State Community Garden Pollinator Garden: 24.9 mi
- Clinton County Rest Area Westbound: 19.4 mi
- Clinton County Rest Area Eastbound: 19.7 mi
- Centre County Rest Area Westbound: 22.4 mi
- Centre County Rest Area Eastbound: 22.7 mi
- Rosecrans Falls: 10.7 mi
- Rosecran Falls: 10.7 mi
- Ingleby: 16.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.8 miles of State Game Lands Number 255. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Winehead | SSE 158° | 724 m | 8.6 mi |
| Riansares Mountain | ESE 103° | 706 m | 8.0 mi |
| Big Kettle Mountain | S 177° | 688 m | 7.8 mi |
| Thick Mountain | SE 146° | 671 m | 16.4 mi |
| White Mountain | SSE 156° | 671 m | 19.0 mi |
| Winkelblech Mountain | SE 137° | 668 m | 15.1 mi |
| Shriner Mountain | SE 134° | 665 m | 13.3 mi |
| Paddy Mountain | SE 135° | 660 m | 18.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:46 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 20:05 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:01 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 27 | 29 | 37 | 49 | 60 | 69 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lock Haven Sewage PLT, 6 mi away.
- American Kestrel2 obs
- Bald Eagle2 obs
- American Toad2 obs
- Wood Frog2 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk1 obs
- Carolina Wren1 obs
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher1 obs
- Pileated Woodpecker1 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/12169867
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