Deer Lakes Park
Deer Lakes Park is a park in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 354 m. Big Knob stands 423 m to the west-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is West Deer Park, a park 1.8 miles away. Grand View Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Allegheny County
How to reach it
- 16.2 mi off the Grand View Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- West Deer Park: 1.8 mi
- Bairdford Park: 3.2 mi
- East Deer Memorial Park: 3.3 mi
- East Deer River Front Park: 3.4 mi
- Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission - Tarentum Access area: 3.4 mi
- Rich Hill: 2.9 mi
- McKelvey Hill: 6.5 mi
- McCracken Hill: 7.0 mi
- Mt. Sycamore: 9.0 mi
- Gascola slag dump summit: 11.1 mi
- Veteran Monmument: 3.2 mi
- Vietnam War Memorial: 3.5 mi
- Fanny Sellins: 4.0 mi
- Harwick Veterans Memorial: 4.5 mi
- Eddie Adams (1933-2004): 4.6 mi
- Stretch: 5.9 mi
- Hence: 5.9 mi
- Large Snail: 6.0 mi
- Tower Iron: 6.0 mi
- Margie and Pete: 6.0 mi
- Browns Woods: 7.5 mi
- Crouse Run Nature Reserve: 7.8 mi
- Sycamore Island: 9.1 mi
- Kerrwood Park: 9.2 mi
- Briarcliff Park: 9.7 mi
- Large Scale Systems Museum (LSSM): 4.5 mi
- Rachel Carson Homestead: 5.3 mi
- Hartwood Acres Mansion: 5.9 mi
- Depreciation Lands Museum: 7.2 mi
- Kerr Museum: 7.2 mi
- Hartwood Circle Garden: 6.6 mi
- North Park Arboretum: 9.5 mi
- 80th Division Monument - Demonstration Garden: 9.6 mi
- Saint Francis Peace Garden: 11.0 mi
- Highland Park Community Garden: 11.6 mi
- Tour-Ed Mine: 3.0 mi
- Lookout Point: 10.6 mi
- Pittsburgh Yarn Company: 12.7 mi
- Heinz Memorial Chapel: 14.0 mi
- Cathedral of Learning: 14.1 mi
- Upper Orchard: 6.6 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 6.7 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 6.8 mi
- picnic tables: 10.4 mi
- Picnic Table: 10.6 mi
- Tunnelville Beach: 17.9 mi
- Thornburg Beach: 18.8 mi
- Tiger Beach: 19.4 mi
- Thompson Run Falls: 16.8 mi
- Snake Run: 22.0 mi
- Hay's Wall: 17.2 mi
- Fossils Cliff: 23.3 mi
- Francis Spring: 19.4 mi
- Lacock Spring: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.3 miles of Deer Lakes Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Knob | WNW 289° | 423 m | 21.3 mi |
| Herron Hill | SSW 213° | 384 m | 13.6 mi |
| Locust Knob | ESE 117° | 380 m | 20.7 mi |
| Rich Hill | SSW 206° | 365 m | 2.9 mi |
| Mt. Sycamore | SSW 193° | 229.2 m | 9.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:55 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 20:13 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:40 | 16:12 | 16:56 |
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 | 29 | 31 | 38 | 50 | 61 | 69 | 73 | 72 | 65 | 54 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Natrona Lock 4, 5 mi away.
- American Toad26 obs
- False Caesar's Mushroom20 obs
- autumn olive19 obs
- Hickory Tussock Moth19 obs
- common milkweed17 obs
- eastern white pine17 obs
- Ochre Jelly Club17 obs
- Eastern Black Trumpet17 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/382914364
Day trips start here
- Ross Township · 13 mi
- Franklin Park · 14 mi
- Cranberry · 17 mi
- Green Tree · 19 mi
- Coraopolis · 20 mi
- Robinson Township · 20 mi
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