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Cathedral Pines County Park

Cathedral Pines County Park from directly overhead

Cathedral Pines County Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 25 m. Dix Hills stands 92 m to the west, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is East Bartlett Pine Barrens State Forest, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 27 miles off. 19 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
25 m
Getting there

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Coordinates40.86889, -72.94333
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Prosser Pines County Park: 0.6 mi
  • Artist Lake Park: 0.9 mi
  • Barlett Pound Park: 1.1 mi
  • Bartlett Pond Park: 1.1 mi
  • Gordon Heights Children's Park: 1.5 mi
Beaches
Historic sites: 47
  • Regency Forest Pet Memorial: 0.8 mi
  • Navy Seal Memorial: 2.7 mi
  • Suffolk County Vietnam Veterans Memorial : 4.1 mi
  • 9/11 Memorial: 5.9 mi
  • Wardenclyffe Tower Base: 5.9 mi
Museums: 32
  • Brookhaven Volunteer Firefighters Museum: 4.8 mi
  • Sayan Center at TSCW: 5.9 mi
  • Wardenclyffe: 5.9 mi
  • Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Laboratory: 6.0 mi
  • The Mather House Museum: 8.3 mi
Gardens: 21
  • Longwood Community Garden: 0.9 mi
  • Eastport Roots Community Garden: 10.8 mi
  • Long Island Dahlia Garden: 14.3 mi
  • Community Reflection Garden: 19.1 mi
  • Walled Garden: 20.9 mi
Peaks: 19
Artworks: 14
Attractions: 8
  • Exit sign: 9.6 mi
  • boulder: 10.5 mi
  • Hercules Pavillion: 11.2 mi
  • Splish Splash: 11.7 mi
  • Long Island Maritime Museum: 12.9 mi
Picnic sites: 8
  • Picnic Grove: 11.6 mi
  • Wolf 1: 14.7 mi
  • Wolf 2: 14.8 mi
  • Wolf 3: 14.8 mi
  • Wolf 5: 14.8 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 1
  • Long Island Welcome Center: 20.0 mi
Cliffs: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dix HillsW 261°92 m21.8 mi
Signal HillW 261°90 m22.6 mi
Bald HillE 86°88 m12.2 mi
Half Hollow HillsWSW 256°77 m23.1 mi
Flanders HillE 89°70 m17.7 mi
Rock HillE 97°64 m9.8 mi
Mount MiseryNW 315°54 m8.9 mi
Clark HillN 351°48 m24.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2819:04
June solstice05:2119:4620:28
September equinox06:4018:1518:51
December solstice07:1415:4416:28

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303138485867737265544436
Precip in4.03.94.94.23.73.93.74.54.24.33.84.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Upton Coop - Nwsfo NEW York, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Common Box Turtle18 obs
  • eastern white pine17 obs
  • Eastern Red-backed Salamander15 obs
  • spoonleaf sundew11 obs
  • eastern redcedar10 obs
  • Fowler's Toad9 obs
  • Wood Frog9 obs
  • Wild Turkey8 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/357615305

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