Beacon Memorial Park
Beacon Memorial Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 45 m. Schunnemunk Mountain stands 507 m to the southwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Roundhouse Trail, a park 0.4 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 12 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 45 m
How to reach it
- 12.4 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 20 mi
- Hawkwatch · 20 mi
- High Exposure · 20 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Roundhouse Trail: 0.4 mi
- Madam Brett Homestead: 0.6 mi
- South Avenue Park: 1.0 mi
- Heritage Financial Park: 1.3 mi
- Pete and Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park: 1.3 mi
- City of Beacon War Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Mount Culian: 1.1 mi
- Beacon Hill Incline Railway Powerhouse: 1.5 mi
- American revolution signal Beacon monument: 1.7 mi
- The Mt. Beacon Eight: 2.0 mi
- North Beacon Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Lambs Hill: 2.0 mi
- South Beacon Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Bald Hill: 2.4 mi
- Breakneck Ridge: 3.5 mi
- Stonykill Environmental Education Center: 2.8 mi
- Roe Park: 5.7 mi
- Open Space Institute: 6.9 mi
- Taconic Unit: 7.9 mi
- Ulster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 8.5 mi
- Day Game: 7.3 mi
- A Moment in Time: 7.3 mi
- Muro Series X: 7.3 mi
- Mahatma: 7.3 mi
- Fayette: For Charles and Medgar Evers: 7.3 mi
- Dia:Beacon: 1.2 mi
- Motorcyclepedia Museum: 3.8 mi
- Van Wyck Homestead Museum: 3.9 mi
- National Purple Heart Hall of Honor: 5.7 mi
- Hudson Highlands Nature Center - Wildlife Education Campus: 5.8 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 9.2 mi
- Hell Hole: 12.9 mi
- Kaal Rock: 13.5 mi
- Millbrook: 19.4 mi
- Bayards: 19.4 mi
- Timp-Torne Trail: 15.8 mi
- Dunderberg Spiral Railway: 15.8 mi
- Ulster County Fair: 16.9 mi
- Huguenot Street Historic District: 17.9 mi
- Historic Huguenot District: 18.0 mi
- Haldane School Garden: 6.0 mi
- Boscobel Gardens: 6.8 mi
- Vegetable Garden: 11.3 mi
- Cut Garden: 11.4 mi
- Vassar College Community Gardens: 12.0 mi
- Canopus Beach: 7.6 mi
- Mahopac Hills Beach: 13.9 mi
- Berean Park Beach: 14.4 mi
- Ten Eycks Beach: 18.2 mi
- Brick Beach: 18.3 mi
- LG waterfall: 11.3 mi
- Saw Mill Falls: 21.0 mi
- Peter's Kill Falls: 21.0 mi
- Awosting Falls: 21.1 mi
- Sheldon Falls: 21.1 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 12.6 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 12.6 mi
- Wallkill Rest Area: 17.5 mi
- Middletown Rest Area: 23.2 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 24.4 mi
- Dicktown: 10.0 mi
- Doodletown: 14.7 mi
- Trapps Mountain Hamlet Historic District: 20.2 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 6.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.4 miles of Beacon Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schunnemunk Mountain | SW 224° | 507 m | 11.4 mi |
| South Beacon Mountain | SSE 155° | 491 m | 2.2 mi |
| North Beacon Mountain | SSE 149° | 465 m | 1.7 mi |
| Bald Hill | ESE 103° | 456 m | 2.4 mi |
| Lambs Hill | ESE 120° | 454 m | 2.0 mi |
| Spy Rock | SSW 201° | 441 m | 8.8 mi |
| Bull Hill | S 176° | 433 m | 4.9 mi |
| Crows Nest | S 189° | 429 m | 7.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:52 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:45 | 16:30 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 31 | 39 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — W PT, 8 mi away.
- common mugwort56 obs
- Water caltrop49 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly46 obs
- wineberry44 obs
- Spongy Moth34 obs
- Central Ratsnake34 obs
- garlic mustard33 obs
- false indigo bush33 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/320396143
Day trips start here
- Cold Spring · 6 mi
- Highlands · 11 mi
- Putnam County · 12 mi
- Stony Point · 19 mi
- Croton-on-Hudson · 21 mi
- New City · 25 mi
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