Conemaugh Lake Recreation Area
Conemaugh Lake Recreation Area is a park in Pennsylvania, at a recorded elevation of 271 m. Sugar Camp Hill stands 887 m to the southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Tunnelview Historic Site, a park 0.4 miles away. Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 271 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
How to reach it
- 15.0 mi off the Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Tunnelview Historic Site: 0.4 mi
- Loyalhanna Lake National Recreation Area: 4.0 mi
- Rivers Edge Park: 4.5 mi
- Kenneth Quick Memorial Park: 4.6 mi
- Latimer Park: 5.3 mi
- Locust Knob: 5.1 mi
- Penn View Mountain: 10.3 mi
- Watts Hill: 10.4 mi
- Bear Rocks: 10.7 mi
- Warner Hill: 12.5 mi
- Blairsville Veteran's Memorial: 5.9 mi
- Slickville Veteran's Memorial: 7.9 mi
- Site of Strickler's Drug Store, Home of the Banana Split: 10.4 mi
- Latrobe War Memorial: 10.6 mi
- Vietnam Veterans of Westmoreland Co. Memorial: 11.8 mi
- Community park: 6.5 mi
- The Dragon & Gwenevere: 15.0 mi
- Ding Dong Bell: 15.0 mi
- Mitzi Mouse: 15.0 mi
- Little Boy Blue: 15.0 mi
- Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve: 12.5 mi
- State Game Lands Number 273: 15.6 mi
- Buttermilk Falls Natural Area: 16.2 mi
- Tomer Reserve: 16.3 mi
- Alpine Park: 18.6 mi
- KLBE Air Museum: 13.0 mi
- Vandergrift Museum-Historical Society: 13.8 mi
- Westmoreland Museum of American Art: 14.5 mi
- Ligonier Valley Rail Road Museum: 14.9 mi
- IUP Museum: 15.2 mi
- Monastic Garden Area: 12.4 mi
- Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve Colonial Garden: 12.6 mi
- Penn State Master Gardeners’ Richard E. Thorn Memorial Gardens: 12.9 mi
- Formal Garden: 15.8 mi
- Penn Hills Community Garden: 22.8 mi
- Spirit of the Warrior: 14.9 mi
- The Arch: 15.0 mi
- Ghost: 15.1 mi
- Castleform: 15.1 mi
- The Crimson Hawk: 15.2 mi
- Suncliff: 20.0 mi
- Laurel Hill: 21.5 mi
- Ninety Foot Rocks: 22.5 mi
- Wolf Rocks: 24.5 mi
- Keystone Beach: 6.5 mi
- Tunnelville Beach: 18.4 mi
- Slovak Club Picnic Grounds: 10.6 mi
- Picnic Area: 21.3 mi
- Francis Spring: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.7 miles of Conemaugh Lake Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Camp Hill | SE 139° | 887 m | 21.5 mi |
| Irwin Hill | SE 136° | 868 m | 21.4 mi |
| Pine Hill | SE 142° | 842 m | 21.6 mi |
| Bear Rocks | ESE 124° | 745 m | 10.7 mi |
| Sheep Hill | SSE 150° | 641 m | 21.6 mi |
| Peyton Hill | SE 145° | 595 m | 19.8 mi |
| Moose Hill | ENE 64° | 587 m | 18.1 mi |
| Penn View Mountain | ESE 102° | 577 m | 10.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:54 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 20:11 | 20:52 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:40 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:38 | 16:11 | 16:55 |
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 | 28 | 30 | 38 | 49 | 59 | 67 | 71 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Loyalhanna Lake, 4 mi away.
- common pawpaw9 obs
- Swainson's Warbler8 obs
- White-tailed Deer7 obs
- mayapple7 obs
- Acadian Flycatcher5 obs
- Common Whitetail5 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee5 obs
- Turkey Vulture4 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/508060270
Day trips start here
- Greensburg · 15 mi
- Irwin · 20 mi
- New Stanton · 21 mi
- Donegal · 25 mi
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