Crooked Creek Lake Recreation Area
Crooked Creek Lake Recreation Area is a park in Pennsylvania, at a recorded elevation of 295 m. Strongs Hill stands 555 m to the east-southeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Tunnelville Beach, a beach 0.2 miles away. 45 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 295 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Ford City Memorial Park: 4.1 mi
- Kittanning Riverfront Park: 7.0 mi
- Leechburg/Gilpin Community Park: 7.5 mi
- Campbell Park: 7.7 mi
- Community Park: 7.9 mi
- PPG Workers Entrance: 4.2 mi
- Pittsburgh Plate Glass Ford City Works: 4.2 mi
- Fort Armstrong: 5.0 mi
- Blanket Hill: 5.7 mi
- Kittanning: 6.6 mi
- Dime Hill: 4.1 mi
- Ford Hill: 4.7 mi
- George Hill: 5.1 mi
- Blanket Hill: 5.7 mi
- Blanket Hill: 6.1 mi
- Giant Cowboy: 6.2 mi
- American Flag: 11.0 mi
- Haybale sculpture: 14.1 mi
- Sunken Tractor: 14.1 mi
- Ghost: 19.2 mi
- Todd Nature Reserve: 10.5 mi
- State Game Lands Number 304: 15.7 mi
- State Game Lands Number 164: 18.6 mi
- Tomer Reserve: 18.8 mi
- State Game Lands Number 273: 23.0 mi
- Armstrong County Historical Museum & Genealogical Society, Inc: 7.2 mi
- Leechburg Area Museum and Historical Society: 8.0 mi
- Vandergrift Museum-Historical Society: 8.2 mi
- Cooper Hall (Saxonburg Museum): 16.2 mi
- Saxonburg Museum: 16.2 mi
- Community park: 12.2 mi
- Tour-Ed Mine: 15.0 mi
- IUP Arch: 19.5 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 22.2 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 22.3 mi
- Upper Orchard: 24.3 mi
- Tunnelville Beach: 0.2 mi
- Keystone Beach: 24.4 mi
- Bradys Spring: 19.1 mi
- Granny Coon Spring: 24.0 mi
- Penn Hills Community Garden: 24.2 mi
- Hartwood Circle Garden: 24.2 mi
- Livermore: 19.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Crooked Creek Lake Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongs Hill | ESE 108° | 555 m | 24.9 mi |
| Evans Hill | ESE 114° | 552 m | 24.1 mi |
| Highest Point - Armstrong County | NE 37° | 530.3 m | 24.6 mi |
| Coleman Hill | ESE 108° | 502 m | 17.6 mi |
| Warner Hill | ESE 116° | 490 m | 16.6 mi |
| Watts Hill | ESE 124° | 481 m | 14.2 mi |
| Blanket Hill | NE 51° | 479 m | 5.7 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | N 352° | 473 m | 20.0 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 | 20:12 | 20:53 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:39 | 16:11 | 16:54 |
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 | 26 | 28 | 37 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ford City 4 S DAM, under a mile away.
- Bald Eagle30 obs
- Great Blue Heron26 obs
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage23 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant20 obs
- Common Merganser18 obs
- mayapple17 obs
- Japanese stiltgrass17 obs
- azure bluet15 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/552206676
Day trips start here
- Greensburg · 29 mi
- Irwin · 29 mi
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