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Brandon Park

Brandon Park from directly overhead

Brandon Park is a park in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 92 m. Eagle Peak stands 396 m to the north-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is South End Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Route 419 Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off. 35 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.02783, -76.31053

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
Nature reserves
Historic sites: 41
Peaks: 35
  • Chestnut Hill: 6.5 mi
  • Bunker Hill: 7.7 mi
  • Red Hill: 8.4 mi
  • Turkey Hill: 9.2 mi
  • Oak Hill: 9.4 mi
Attractions: 34
Artworks: 31
  • Steinman Statue: 0.7 mi
  • Transcending Flesh: 0.9 mi
  • Kids With Balloons: 3.8 mi
  • Missles Into Plowshares: 3.9 mi
  • Reading At Pondside: 3.9 mi
Gardens: 13
Cliffs: 11
Picnic sites: 10
  • Trestle Trail Picnic Site: 2.5 mi
  • Bortz Pavilion: 8.9 mi
  • Boy Scout Pavilion: 8.9 mi
  • Leaman Place Junction: 10.6 mi
  • Penryn Church Grove: 12.9 mi
Springs: 8
  • Lititz Spring: 8.9 mi
  • Donegal Spring: 14.4 mi
  • Black Rock Spring: 15.4 mi
  • Schaefferstown Spring: 18.5 mi
  • Black Barren Spring: 21.2 mi
Covered bridges: 1
Beaches: 1
  • Mt. Gretna Lake & Beach: 17.5 mi
Waterfalls: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Eagle PeakNNE 17°396 m22.5 mi
Governor Dick HillNNW 333°350 m16.9 mi
Spring HillNNW 340°331 m16.1 mi
Cushion PeakNNE 33°320 m22.8 mi
Welsh MountainENE 73°313 m21.2 mi
Eagle RockN 358°306 m14.9 mi
Silver HillENE 60°283 m21.0 mi
Round TopNW 304°281 m23.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1018:4219:17
June solstice05:3719:5820:38
September equinox06:5318:2819:04
December solstice07:2416:0116:44

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313341536271767467554436
Precip in3.02.53.53.53.64.14.53.64.84.23.33.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lancaster 2 NE Filt PLT, 3 mi away.

  • Spotted Lanternfly110 obs
  • American pokeweed54 obs
  • Monarch52 obs
  • lesser celandine51 obs
  • Golden Oyster Mushroom50 obs
  • cut-leaved toothwort47 obs
  • Virginia Springbeauty46 obs
  • jetbead44 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/83657307

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