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Alleghany Park

Alleghany Park from directly overhead

Alleghany Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 18 m. Rocky Hill stands 625 m to the east-southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Gazebo Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Mohawk Towpath Byway passes 4.2 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
18 m

How to reach it

Coordinates42.71779, -73.72033

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Gazebo Park: 0.7 mi
  • 7th Street Park: 0.8 mi
  • Mayor Hugh F. Donnelly Erie Canal Side-Cut Park: 0.8 mi
  • Pershing Green Memorial Park: 0.8 mi
  • Schuyler Flatts Cultural Park: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
  • dam: 0.8 mi
  • dam: 0.8 mi
  • dam: 0.8 mi
  • Colonel Philip Schuyler House Foundations: 1.0 mi
  • Watervliet Erie Canal Lower Side Cut Lock Stones: 1.1 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
Museums: 48
Gardens: 36
  • Linden Grove Cremation Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Leslie's Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Avery's Garden: 1.5 mi
  • Wildflowers: 1.5 mi
  • Brinton and Avery's Place: 1.6 mi
Waterfalls: 35
  • Corning Cascade Falls: 1.6 mi
  • Lower Burden Falls: 1.7 mi
  • Upper Burden Falls: 1.8 mi
  • Lower Burden Falls: 2.2 mi
  • Smart's Cascade: 2.2 mi
Attractions: 31
  • William Learned Marcy Grave: 0.8 mi
  • John Van Buren Grave: 0.8 mi
  • Saint Brigid's Bell: 0.8 mi
  • Stanford Mausoleum: 0.9 mi
  • William Paterson Grave: 1.0 mi
Artworks: 30
Cliffs: 12
Springs: 10
  • Spring Avenue Spring: 2.2 mi
  • Bathtub Spring: 16.3 mi
  • Karista Spring: 23.3 mi
  • Tallulah Spring: 23.4 mi
  • Polaris: 23.4 mi
Beaches: 5
Rest areas: 3
  • Rest Area I-87 (South Bound): 9.2 mi
  • Clifton Park Rest Area: 11.4 mi
  • Rest Area I-90 (West Bound): 14.7 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.4 miles of Alleghany Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Rocky HillESE 104°625 m17.8 mi
Perigo HillESE 105°571 m13.4 mi
Buck RockESE 109°562 m17.9 mi
The GipfelESE 114°561 m14.0 mi
Filkins HillWSW 246°550 m20.1 mi
Johnson HillSE 124°537 m15.8 mi
Dickinson HillENE 71°537 m16.4 mi
Buckwheat HillESE 124°530 m17.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3019:07
June solstice05:1819:5420:37
September equinox06:4318:1718:54
December solstice07:2315:3916:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262836496170757366534232
Precip in2.62.42.93.13.84.64.63.93.84.22.83.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Troy L&D, 3 mi away.

  • tree-of-heaven86 obs
  • Japanese creeper60 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee52 obs
  • White-tailed Deer38 obs
  • Fragile Forktail32 obs
  • Asian bittersweet31 obs
  • garlic mustard23 obs
  • Eastern Forktail23 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/588513721

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