Hershey Gardens
Hershey Gardens is a park in Pennsylvania, at a recorded elevation of 117 m. Big Lick Mountain stands 545 m to the north, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Historic Hershey Rose Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Route 419 Scenic Byway passes 11 miles off. 45 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 117 m
How to reach it
- 11.1 mi off the Route 419 Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Auntie Mortem's Abattoir: 0.3 mi
- Music Express: 0.3 mi
- Kill 'N Fill Garage: 0.3 mi
- Twisted Carnevil: 0.3 mi
- Laff Trakk: 0.3 mi
- Boathouse Park: 0.9 mi
- Chocolate Town Square: 0.9 mi
- Swatara Creek Park: 1.3 mi
- Patriot Park: 1.6 mi
- Palmdale Park: 1.6 mi
- Michael Horrocks 9/11 Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Abandoned Mount Gretna Prison Foundations: 9.0 mi
- Highspire War Memorial: 9.2 mi
- The "Governor's Troop": 10.0 mi
- 16th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry at Camp Hastings.: 10.1 mi
- Education Center: 0.0 mi
- The Hershey Story: 0.9 mi
- Pennsylvania State Police Historical, Educational, & Memorial Center: 0.9 mi
- AACA Museum: 1.8 mi
- Kinderhaus: 2.2 mi
- Round Top: 5.7 mi
- Conewago Hill: 9.9 mi
- Mount Ararat: 10.5 mi
- Governor Dick Hill: 11.2 mi
- Third Mountain: 11.7 mi
- The Boy with the Leaking Boot: 0.0 mi
- Girl Chasing Butterflies: 0.0 mi
- Winter: 0.2 mi
- Fall: 0.2 mi
- Spring: 0.2 mi
- State Game Lands Number 246: 5.7 mi
- Bellaire Woods: 8.9 mi
- Shaw Family Nature Preserve: 9.2 mi
- State Game Lands Number 145: 9.4 mi
- State Game Lands Number 275: 9.5 mi
- Historic Hershey Rose Garden: 0.0 mi
- Bill Bowman Garden: 0.0 mi
- Northside Garden: 3.4 mi
- Palmyra Community Library: 4.8 mi
- Prayer Garden: 7.2 mi
- Original Carrousel Circle: 0.7 mi
- Quitte Creek Nature Park: 8.2 mi
- Hemlock Grove: 9.1 mi
- Main Campfire Circle: 13.7 mi
- Swing Circle: 13.8 mi
- Spring Creek Springs: 1.6 mi
- Penryth Spring: 8.8 mi
- Donegal Spring: 14.4 mi
- Spring Lake Spring: 14.6 mi
- Eichelberger Spring: 14.7 mi
- Chinese Wall: 18.3 mi
- Chickies Rock: 18.3 mi
- Round Head: 23.3 mi
- Mt. Gretna Lake & Beach: 10.1 mi
- Concrete Beach: 12.8 mi
- Rausch Gap: 14.3 mi
- Acrigg's Falls: 16.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Hershey Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Lick Mountain | N 11° | 545 m | 21.2 mi |
| Short Mountain | N 350° | 500 m | 20.0 mi |
| Good Spring Mountain | NNE 19° | 500 m | 24.2 mi |
| Bear Mountain | N 6° | 496 m | 21.9 mi |
| Stony Mountain | N 352° | 491 m | 12.0 mi |
| Third Mountain | NW 316° | 488 m | 11.7 mi |
| Panther Head | NNE 29° | 473 m | 22.6 mi |
| Berry Mountain | NNW 331° | 435 m | 18.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:43 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 20:00 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 16:01 | 16:44 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 77 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Middletown Harrisburg Intl AP, 9 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly162 obs
- Canada Goose104 obs
- Isabella Tiger Moth71 obs
- Black Vulture69 obs
- Monarch44 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel32 obs
- Eastern Boxelder Bug24 obs
- Green Frog21 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/397517094
Day trips start here
- Wrightsville · 20 mi
- York · 23 mi
- Lancaster · 26 mi
- Lancaster County · 28 mi
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