Cold Spring Harbor State Park
Cold Spring Harbor State Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 15 m. Reynolds Hill stands 180 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Three Condors, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 16 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
How to reach it
- 16.4 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 20.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 24.7 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Three Condors: 0.1 mi
- Charles Darwin: 0.5 mi
- Dance of the Polypeptides: 0.5 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 2.0 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bird Fountain: 2.4 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Park: 0.4 mi
- Stillwell Woods Park: 2.1 mi
- Breezy Park: 2.1 mi
- Heckscher Park: 2.2 mi
- Columbia Street Park: 2.4 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 0.4 mi
- Eva and Larry Paul: 0.6 mi
- Tony Coe: 0.6 mi
- Patricia and Colin Williams-Hawkes: 0.7 mi
- William and Joyce O'Neil: 0.7 mi
- Fire House Museum: 0.4 mi
- Preservation Long Islannd: 0.5 mi
- The Whaling Museum & Education Center: 0.7 mi
- Heckscher Museum of Art: 2.2 mi
- Old Orchard: 2.4 mi
- Cold Spring Beach: 0.5 mi
- Eagle Dock Beach: 0.8 mi
- Gold Star Battalion Beach: 2.7 mi
- West Neck Beach: 2.8 mi
- Quail Hill Beach: 3.2 mi
- ATCG Tower: 0.5 mi
- Oyster Bay Railroad Station Turntable: 3.6 mi
- Suffolk County Vanderbilt Planetarium: 5.6 mi
- Recreated 1904 Wantagh Post Office: 12.9 mi
- Jamaica: 12.9 mi
- Uplands Farm Sanctuary: 0.6 mi
- Wawapek Preserve: 0.6 mi
- St. John's Pond Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Shore Road Sanctuary: 0.9 mi
- Squadron Hill Park: 1.0 mi
- Organic Demonstration Site #1: 2.0 mi
- Rose Garden: 2.9 mi
- Crucifix Garden: 2.9 mi
- Walled Garden: 3.7 mi
- Victorian Garden: 3.8 mi
- Sagamore Hill: 2.5 mi
- West Hills: 3.6 mi
- Jayne's Hill: 3.8 mi
- Mannetto Hills: 4.6 mi
- Mill Neck Peak: 4.6 mi
- Lower Education Area: 2.5 mi
- Upper Education Area: 2.5 mi
- Picnic Area C: 3.8 mi
- Picnic Area A & B: 3.9 mi
- Birches: 10.9 mi
- Cooper Bluff: 2.8 mi
- Northwest Bluff: 4.6 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 5.0 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 5.3 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 6.0 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 3.9 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 7.1 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 11.2 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 11.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 14.0 mi
- Long Island Welcome Center: 8.6 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 17.7 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 17.7 mi
- Farms Falls: 19.7 mi
- The Falls: 19.9 mi
- Cuties Island: 12.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.4 miles of Cold Spring Harbor State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reynolds Hill | NW 316° | 180 m | 23.2 mi |
| Round Hill | NW 326° | 172 m | 19.9 mi |
| Cooney Hill | NW 319° | 170 m | 21.6 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | NW 312° | 156 m | 20.9 mi |
| Huckleberry Hills | N 358° | 141 m | 22.6 mi |
| Canoe Hill | N 357° | 140 m | 20.9 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | SSE 151° | 122 m | 3.8 mi |
| Ferris Hill | N 357° | 120 m | 21.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:17 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:46 | 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 | 31 | 33 | 39 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 75 | 73 | 67 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Centerport, 5 mi away.
- Nassaquatuck Seapill58 obs
- mountain laurel51 obs
- garlic mustard44 obs
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab39 obs
- Mute Swan37 obs
- lesser periwinkle32 obs
- lesser celandine32 obs
- Canada Goose29 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/441090502
Day trips start here
- Oyster Bay · 4 mi
- Bayville · 6 mi
- South Oyster Bay · 8 mi
- Glen Cove · 9 mi
- Nassau County · 11 mi
- Roslyn · 11 mi
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