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Wildwood State Park

Wildwood State Park from directly overhead

Wildwood State Park is a nature reserve in New York, at a recorded elevation of 33 m. Allington Hill stands 92 m to the north-northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Baiting Hollow Tidal Wetlands Area, a nature reserve 1.2 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 21 miles off. 37 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
33 m

What to expect

Operated by
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.96056, -72.79510

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Police Officers Memorial Park: 1.9 mi
  • Duck Pond Park: 2.9 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 3.2 mi
  • Defense Hill Park: 3.9 mi
  • Robert S Reid Community Center: 4.0 mi
Beaches
Historic sites
Museums: 48
  • Brookhaven Volunteer Firefighters Museum: 5.3 mi
  • Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Laboratory: 5.4 mi
  • Wardenclyffe: 5.5 mi
  • Sayan Center at TSCW: 5.5 mi
  • Suffolk County Historical Society Museum: 7.2 mi
Peaks: 37
Artworks: 15
Gardens: 13
  • Eastport Roots Community Garden: 9.3 mi
  • Longwood Community Garden: 9.5 mi
  • Rain Garden: 13.7 mi
  • Lillian's Garden: 22.6 mi
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 22.8 mi
Attractions: 11
Picnic sites: 8
  • Picnic Grove: 4.3 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Picnic Area: 13.8 mi
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 21.6 mi
  • Wolf 1: 23.9 mi
  • Wolf 3: 23.9 mi
Lighthouses: 4
Cliffs: 3
Waterfalls: 1
  • Cascade: 22.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Allington HillNNW 338°92 m24.9 mi
Bald HillSE 141°88 m7.1 mi
Marsh HillNNW 334°72 m23.6 mi
Flanders HillESE 121°70 m11.6 mi
Moose HillN 7°68 m24.2 mi
Rock HillSSE 166°64 m7.8 mi
Lidyhites HillN 357°63 m24.6 mi
Beacon HillNNW 347°58 m22.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:03
June solstice05:2019:4620:27
September equinox06:3918:1418:50
December solstice07:1315:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303138475767737265544435
Precip in3.82.75.04.23.73.93.33.84.34.73.95.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Baiting Hollow, 3 mi away.

  • Juniper Geometer Moth28 obs
  • Pale Beauty23 obs
  • Elegant Grass-veneer22 obs
  • white oak21 obs
  • American Idia Moth21 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel20 obs
  • American Bullfrog20 obs
  • Common Idia Moth20 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/434793300

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