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Gibson Park

Gibson Park from directly overhead

Gibson Park is a park in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 242 m. Sweet Hill stands 569 m to the east-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Civil War Memorial, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 1.3 miles off. 6 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

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How to reach it

Coordinates42.21642, -79.83499

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Heard Memorial Park: 0.1 mi
  • Creekside Park: 0.8 mi
  • North East Little League Park: 1.5 mi
  • Gravel Pit Park: 1.5 mi
  • Highmeyer Park: 5.3 mi
Historic sites: 25
Museums: 23
Beaches: 20
  • Freeport Beach: 1.7 mi
  • Fishermans Beach: 4.1 mi
  • Shorewood Beach: 4.1 mi
  • Shades Beach: 6.8 mi
  • Cowell Beach: 8.0 mi
Peaks: 6
Artworks: 4
  • Nittany Lion Shrine: 9.9 mi
  • Fruits of Labor: 13.9 mi
  • Jon's Fish Statue: 18.6 mi
  • Schaefer's Auto Art: 19.4 mi
Attractions: 4
Waterfalls: 1
  • Buttermilk Falls: 20.6 mi
Springs: 1
  • Sulfur Spring: 22.1 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sweet HillESE 122°569 m19.2 mi
Humphrey HillSE 135°534 m22.9 mi
Ingersol HillSE 141°533 m22.1 mi
Dowd HillSSE 148°528 m21.8 mi
Oak HillS 191°433 m20.7 mi
Mount BaldyENE 71°413 m14.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2418:5519:32
June solstice05:4420:1721:00
September equinox07:0718:4219:18
December solstice07:4616:0616:51

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272836485969737165544334
Precip in2.62.42.93.43.83.64.43.84.64.93.83.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Westfield 2 SSE, 14 mi away.

  • staghorn sumac20 obs
  • Japanese knotweed19 obs
  • American Robin17 obs
  • red deadnettle17 obs
  • Ring-billed Gull16 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco15 obs
  • Monarch15 obs
  • Northern Cardinal14 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/865385068

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