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Twilight Park Unit

Twilight Park Unit from directly overhead

Twilight Park Unit is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 605 m. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the west, 6.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Mountain Top Historical Society, a museum 0.9 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 24 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Water Supply

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.18811, -74.10770

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 1.3 mi
  • Mountain Top Arboretum: 2.5 mi
  • C.D. Lane Park: 7.6 mi
  • Angelo Canna Town Park: 9.4 mi
  • Andy Lee Field: 9.9 mi
Waterfalls: 58
Historic sites: 50
  • Tory Fort: 1.7 mi
  • Layman's Monument: 2.0 mi
  • stone house: 2.6 mi
  • cistern: 2.9 mi
  • Catskill Mountain House: 3.8 mi
Museums: 33
Artworks: 17
Cliffs: 15
  • Hurricane Ledge: 2.3 mi
  • Devils Kitchen: 4.1 mi
  • Hawks Rocks: 4.9 mi
  • The "Great" Cliffs: 5.1 mi
  • Devils Tombstone: 5.4 mi
Beaches: 14
  • Saugerties Beach: 11.4 mi
  • West Landing: 13.5 mi
  • South Landing: 13.6 mi
  • Ulster Landing Beach: 15.2 mi
  • Oakdale Beach: 17.4 mi
Gardens: 12
  • The Upper Garden: 12.0 mi
  • The Walled Garden: 12.0 mi
  • Blithewood Garden: 15.1 mi
  • The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 15.4 mi
  • Rough Garden: 15.5 mi
Attractions: 6
  • The Old Game Farm: 6.2 mi
  • Rail Explorers: 12.7 mi
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 13.3 mi
  • Pratt Rock: 18.2 mi
  • Hudson River Cruises: 19.7 mi
Springs: 6
  • Devil's Acre spring: 6.5 mi
  • Elm Ridge piped spring: 8.7 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 20.3 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 20.4 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 21.1 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.5 miles of Twilight Park Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Hunter MountainW 264°1,228.34 m6.3 mi
Black DomeN 352°1,217.37 m5.7 mi
Thomas Cole MountainNNW 346°1,204.87 m5.9 mi
BlackheadN 2°1,200.91 m5.5 mi
West Kill MountainW 262°1,186 m9.4 mi
Plateau MountainSW 225°1,168.91 m4.9 mi
Sugarloaf MountainSSW 209°1,160 m4.5 mi
Southwest Hunter MountainWSW 256°1,140 m7.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3219:09
June solstice05:2119:5420:37
September equinox06:4418:1918:56
December solstice07:2315:4316:28

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222431435463686660483828
Precip in4.94.05.75.24.86.05.56.36.37.04.97.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Platte Clove, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/424227083

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