Hills Creek State Park
Hills Creek State Park is a park in Pennsylvania, at a recorded elevation of 492 m. Armenia Mountain stands 734 m to the east-southeast, 17 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 492 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Reese Hill: 3.7 mi
- Bald Hill: 3.7 mi
- Bluff Point: 3.9 mi
- Big Hill: 4.9 mi
- Pickle Hill: 4.9 mi
- Mansfield Veterans Memorial Park: 4.3 mi
- Rail Trail Head: 4.3 mi
- Max Colegrove Park: 4.4 mi
- Smyth Park: 4.5 mi
- Elliott Lawn: 4.7 mi
- Hills Creek State Park: 1.6 mi
- State Game Lands Number 268: 16.4 mi
- McCarthy Hill State Forest: 19.6 mi
- Spencer Crest Nature Center: 21.3 mi
- Erwin Mountain State Forest: 21.6 mi
- War Memorial: 8.4 mi
- Powder House: 23.1 mi
- School #4: 23.8 mi
- Preemption Line: 24.0 mi
- IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing: 24.1 mi
- The Heritage Village And Museum: 20.1 mi
- Manley-Bohlayer House: 22.3 mi
- The Rockwell Museum: 23.5 mi
- Kids Rockewell Art Lab: 23.5 mi
- Painted Post-Erwin Museum at the Depot: 24.4 mi
- Mistletoe Farm: 3.6 mi
- Larry the Elk: 6.4 mi
- Little Joe Tower: 23.6 mi
- Heritage Village of the Southern Finger Lakes: 24.0 mi
- Artemus: 23.5 mi
- Corning Ceremonial Sculpture: 23.5 mi
- The Critic: 23.5 mi
- Glass Blower: 23.6 mi
- Matson Spring: 15.4 mi
- Orchard Spring: 17.4 mi
- Railroad Springs: 18.9 mi
- Colton Point: 17.0 mi
- Aider's Rock: 19.6 mi
- The Main Attraction: 19.6 mi
- First Falls: 22.9 mi
- Third Falls: 22.9 mi
- Second Falls: 22.9 mi
- Landrus: 12.0 mi
- Fall Brook: 13.2 mi
- Pennsylvania Welcome Center: 6.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.8 miles of Hills Creek State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armenia Mountain | ESE 120° | 734 m | 16.6 mi |
| Tower Hill | NE 50° | 715 m | 10.4 mi |
| Huckleberry Mountain | SSE 147° | 710 m | 15.5 mi |
| Mount Tom | WSW 249° | 702 m | 13.3 mi |
| Big Rocks | W 272° | 700 m | 15.2 mi |
| Maple Hill | S 176° | 694 m | 7.0 mi |
| Goat Ranch Hill | SSW 211° | 683 m | 11.6 mi |
| Brier Mountain | SSE 156° | 680 m | 14.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:44 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 20:06 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 15:57 | 16:42 |
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 | 24 | 25 | 33 | 45 | 56 | 65 | 70 | 68 | 61 | 49 | 39 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tioga Hammond DAM, 6 mi away.
- Canada Goose7 obs
- American Toad6 obs
- White-tailed Deer5 obs
- Monarch5 obs
- Mallard4 obs
- eastern hemlock4 obs
- American white waterlily4 obs
- Herb Robert4 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/357340109
Day trips start here
- Southern Tier · 27 mi
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