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Castle Park

Castle Park from directly overhead

Castle Park is a park in Pennsylvania, at a recorded elevation of 93 m. Nells Hill stands 403 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Marietta Restoration Associates, a museum 0.9 miles away. Route 419 Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off. 40 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
93 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.06871, -76.56108

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Parks
  • Marietta War Memorial Park: 0.9 mi
  • Lloyd H. Fuhrman Memorial Park: 1.0 mi
  • Flanagan Park: 1.1 mi
  • Legion Park: 1.4 mi
  • Chickies Rock County Park Chickies Creek Day Use Area: 2.2 mi
Attractions
Nature reserves: 57
  • Wizard Ranch Nature Preserve: 1.9 mi
  • Robert A. Kinsley Nature Preserve: 2.6 mi
  • Kreider Tract Park: 3.8 mi
  • Wilton Meadows Nature Preserve: 4.4 mi
  • Pole Island Nature Preserve: 4.6 mi
Artworks: 52
  • Ship Mountjoy Sculpture: 4.3 mi
  • Benjamin Franklin Carpenter: 5.7 mi
  • Looking Back: 11.3 mi
  • Bird for Spoken Word: 11.4 mi
  • Untitled: 11.4 mi
Historic sites: 50
Peaks: 40
  • Round Top: 1.8 mi
  • Buzzards Roost: 2.4 mi
  • Chimney Rock: 4.0 mi
  • Schulls Rock: 4.2 mi
  • Mount Pisgah: 5.1 mi
Gardens: 31
Picnic sites: 15
  • Hidden Laurel Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
  • Trestle Trail Picnic Site: 11.6 mi
  • Penryn Church Grove: 14.0 mi
  • Boy Scout Pavilion: 14.5 mi
  • Bortz Pavilion: 14.6 mi
Cliffs: 9
Springs: 8
  • Donegal Spring: 2.3 mi
  • Lititz Spring: 14.5 mi
  • Spring Creek Springs: 15.3 mi
  • Penryth Spring: 18.4 mi
  • Schaefferstown Spring: 21.1 mi
Beaches: 2
  • Mt. Gretna Lake & Beach: 13.0 mi
  • Concrete Beach: 21.9 mi
Covered bridges: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Nells HillW 277°403 m21.1 mi
Round TopW 277°401 m19.4 mi
Governor Dick HillNNE 24°350 m13.5 mi
Pinetown HillW 280°338 m19.1 mi
Blair HillW 274°336 m22.6 mi
Spring HillNNE 32°331 m14.5 mi
Flat MountainW 279°327 m20.3 mi
Ramsey HillW 278°321 m17.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1118:4319:18
June solstice05:3819:5920:39
September equinox06:5418:2919:05
December solstice07:2616:0116:45

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283139506069737164534233
Precip in3.12.43.63.63.94.34.84.04.74.23.23.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Landisville 2 NW, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American pokeweed18 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly17 obs
  • Monarch16 obs
  • Dryad's Saddle13 obs
  • Drooping Star-of-Bethlehem12 obs
  • late boneset10 obs
  • yellow trout lily8 obs
  • North American Wheel Bug8 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357360756

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