Blue Spruce Park
Blue Spruce Park is a park in Pennsylvania, at a recorded elevation of 359 m. Rager Mountain stands 786 m to the south-southeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Kunkle Hill, a peak 2.5 miles away. Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway passes 20 miles off. 28 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 359 m
How to reach it
- 20.4 mi off the Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- IUP Co-Op Park: 3.7 mi
- Whites Woods Nature Center: 3.8 mi
- Fourth Ward Park: 4.3 mi
- Indiana Memorial Park: 4.9 mi
- The Oak Grove: 4.9 mi
- Indiana County War Memorial: 4.6 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 5.0 mi
- Blanket Hill: 14.3 mi
- Zion Church: 15.8 mi
- Blairsville Veteran's Memorial: 18.8 mi
- Kunkle Hill: 2.5 mi
- Coleman Hill: 3.9 mi
- Vinegar Hill: 4.5 mi
- Warner Hill: 6.4 mi
- Russell Hill: 6.7 mi
- Jimmy Stewart Statue: 4.6 mi
- The Crimson Hawk: 5.0 mi
- Ghost: 5.0 mi
- The Arch: 5.1 mi
- Castleform: 5.1 mi
- IUP Museum: 5.0 mi
- Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center: 20.2 mi
- Armstrong County Historical Museum & Genealogical Society, Inc: 20.7 mi
- Vandergrift Museum-Historical Society: 21.7 mi
- Leechburg Area Museum and Historical Society: 23.5 mi
- State Game Lands Number 273: 8.7 mi
- Yellow Creek State Park: 10.6 mi
- State Game Lands Number 185: 15.9 mi
- State Game Lands Number 320: 18.4 mi
- Buttermilk Falls Natural Area: 19.3 mi
- IUP Arch: 5.0 mi
- Community park: 14.8 mi
- Home of Punxsutawney Phil: 19.8 mi
- Suncliff: 12.6 mi
- Laurel Hill: 23.4 mi
- Tunnelville Beach: 17.7 mi
- Keystone Beach: 24.6 mi
- Granny Coon Spring: 14.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Blue Spruce Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rager Mountain | SSE 149° | 786 m | 22.7 mi |
| Bear Rocks | S 185° | 745 m | 21.4 mi |
| Kinter Hill | NE 54° | 630 m | 12.2 mi |
| Moose Hill | SE 144° | 587 m | 9.2 mi |
| Doty Roundtop | NE 52° | 579 m | 14.3 mi |
| Penn View Mountain | S 183° | 577 m | 17.6 mi |
| Strongs Hill | SE 137° | 555 m | 8.5 mi |
| Evans Hill | SSE 153° | 552 m | 9.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:53 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:46 | 20:11 | 20:52 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:40 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:38 | 16:09 | 16:53 |
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 | 48 | 59 | 67 | 71 | 69 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 2.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Indiana 3 SE, 7 mi away.
- Black-capped Chickadee40 obs
- Brown Trout31 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee30 obs
- Largemouth Bass27 obs
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander26 obs
- Northern Dusky Salamander26 obs
- White-breasted Nuthatch17 obs
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage17 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/523841760
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