Hector Land Use Area US Forest Service
Hector Land Use Area US Forest Service is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 390 m. Connecticut Hill stands 638 m to the south-southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Butcher Hill, a peak 2.4 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 3.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 390 m
How to reach it
- 3.3 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 8.2 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 8 mi
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Butcher Hill: 2.4 mi
- North Hill: 6.4 mi
- Burnt Hill: 7.7 mi
- Pumpkin Hill: 10.2 mi
- Satterly Hill: 10.3 mi
- Jacksonville Community Park: 8.0 mi
- Hernon Park: 9.7 mi
- Long Point State Park (Finger Lakes): 10.0 mi
- Myers Park: 10.5 mi
- Allan H. Treman State Marine Park: 14.2 mi
- Cayuga Shores Wildlife Management Area: 6.1 mi
- Taughannock Falls State Park: 7.0 mi
- Willard Wildlife Management Area: 8.3 mi
- Sims-Jennings Preserve at Cayuga Cliffs: 9.3 mi
- Whitlock Nature Preserve: 9.7 mi
- Frontenac Falls: 6.0 mi
- Silver Thread Falls: 6.2 mi
- Oak Tree Falls: 7.0 mi
- Taughannock Falls: 7.5 mi
- Hosmer Falls: 7.6 mi
- Interlaken Historical Society Community Life Museum: 3.1 mi
- Interlaken Historical Society Farmers Museum: 3.1 mi
- Ulysses Historical Society: 5.3 mi
- Cayuga Nature Center: 10.4 mi
- Field School House: 12.7 mi
- Remembrance Farm: 3.8 mi
- Hunt's Christmas Tree Farm In The Finger Lakes: 4.6 mi
- Rue Claire Lavender Farm and Artisan Chocolate: 5.7 mi
- Steel Deck Bridge: 5.8 mi
- Fire hydrant: 6.4 mi
- Ithaca Children's Garden: 14.8 mi
- Alpha Phi Alpha memorial garden: 16.1 mi
- Farrand Garden: 16.1 mi
- Rockwell Azalea Garden: 16.2 mi
- Deans Garden: 16.3 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 15.5 mi
- Cornplanter: 16.9 mi
- Elizabeth Blackwell Sculpture: 22.9 mi
- William Smith Sculpture: 22.9 mi
- 'The Scissors' Sculpture: 22.9 mi
- Peter Wheeler historic marker: 10.8 mi
- Bob Baker BBQ Pavilion: 12.7 mi
- Monument of Ezra Cornell: 16.0 mi
- Andrew Dickson White Statue: 16.0 mi
- The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Woman Suffrage Movement Monument: 23.1 mi
- Castle Point: 8.6 mi
- Glen Cathedral: 15.6 mi
- Pinnacle Rock: 16.4 mi
- Hi Banks: 19.7 mi
- Point O'Rocks: 24.1 mi
- Der deutsche Strand: 15.7 mi
- Glenwood Beach: 20.0 mi
- Tamarack Spring: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.8 miles of Hector Land Use Area US Forest Service. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Hill | SSE 163° | 638 m | 13.7 mi |
| Irish Hill | SSE 168° | 599 m | 21.5 mi |
| Doll Hill | SSE 162° | 596 m | 17.0 mi |
| Buck Hill | SSE 164° | 594 m | 12.6 mi |
| Rogers Hill | S 182° | 586 m | 13.4 mi |
| Seely Hill | SSE 152° | 582 m | 21.8 mi |
| Huey Hill | SW 228° | 576 m | 17.7 mi |
| Barnes Hill | SSE 158° | 571 m | 21.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:42 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 20:06 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 15:52 | 16:37 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 22 | 24 | 30 | 43 | 55 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 60 | 48 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mecklenburg 4SW, 9 mi away.
- bittersweet nightshade5 obs
- Belted Whiteface4 obs
- Northern Slimy Salamander3 obs
- European Mantis3 obs
- New England aster3 obs
- Eastern Cottontail2 obs
- common jewelweed2 obs
- Red Clover2 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 node/357599192
Day trips start here
- Trumansburg · 5 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 7 mi
- Watkins Glen · 15 mi
- Ithaca · 16 mi
- Finger Lakes · 20 mi
- Geneva · 23 mi
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