Keystone State Park
Keystone State Park is a park in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 319 m. Bald Knob stands 893 m to the south-southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Keystone Beach, a beach 0.3 miles away. Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway passes 12 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks
How to reach it
- 11.9 mi off the Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Latimer Park: 2.7 mi
- Gray Wing Park: 2.8 mi
- Cardinal Park: 3.5 mi
- Strickler's Pharmacy: 3.9 mi
- Parklet: 4.0 mi
- Locust Knob: 8.6 mi
- Bear Rocks: 9.8 mi
- 1440: 9.9 mi
- 1420: 10.4 mi
- 1462: 10.5 mi
- Site of Strickler's Drug Store, Home of the Banana Split: 3.9 mi
- Latrobe War Memorial: 4.1 mi
- Vietnam Veterans of Westmoreland Co. Memorial: 6.1 mi
- Blairsville Veteran's Memorial: 7.3 mi
- Slickville Veteran's Memorial: 9.3 mi
- Tipping Bucket: 9.6 mi
- Olde Idlewild: 9.6 mi
- Bigfoot's Mudslide: 9.6 mi
- The Dragon & Gwenevere: 9.6 mi
- Soak Zone: 9.6 mi
- Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve: 6.0 mi
- Tomer Reserve: 17.0 mi
- Buttermilk Falls Natural Area: 17.1 mi
- Alpine Park: 17.7 mi
- Valley Park: 18.1 mi
- KLBE Air Museum: 6.5 mi
- Ligonier Valley Rail Road Museum: 9.4 mi
- Westmoreland Museum of American Art: 9.6 mi
- Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art: 12.2 mi
- Powder Mill Nature Reserve: 15.9 mi
- Monastic Garden Area: 5.8 mi
- Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve Colonial Garden: 6.0 mi
- Penn State Master Gardeners’ Richard E. Thorn Memorial Gardens: 7.5 mi
- Formal Garden: 10.3 mi
- Penn Hills Community Garden: 22.5 mi
- Spirit of the Warrior: 20.4 mi
- The Arch: 20.6 mi
- Ghost: 20.6 mi
- Castleform: 20.6 mi
- The Crimson Hawk: 20.7 mi
- Ninety Foot Rocks: 16.9 mi
- Wolf Rocks: 19.1 mi
- Beam Rocks: 20.6 mi
- Laurel Hill: 21.5 mi
- Suncliff: 23.6 mi
- Livermore: 6.7 mi
- West Overton: 20.2 mi
- Wehrum: 23.9 mi
- Keystone Beach: 0.3 mi
- Tunnelville Beach: 24.3 mi
- Slovak Club Picnic Grounds: 4.9 mi
- Picnic Area: 19.1 mi
- Francis Spring: 20.9 mi
- Kooser Spring: 22.0 mi
- Thompson Run Falls: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.3 miles of Keystone State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | SSE 152° | 893 m | 20.3 mi |
| Sugar Camp Hill | ESE 123° | 887 m | 17.9 mi |
| Pea Vine Hill | SE 137° | 886 m | 18.2 mi |
| Mystery Hill | SE 125° | 878 m | 18.1 mi |
| Irwin Hill | ESE 119° | 868 m | 18.1 mi |
| Pike's Peak | SE 128° | 868 m | 18.3 mi |
| Ulery Hill | SE 141° | 863 m | 18.9 mi |
| Penrod Hill | SE 132° | 855 m | 17.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:54 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 20:11 | 20:52 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:38 | 16:12 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 38 | 49 | 59 | 67 | 71 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Loyalhanna Lake, 7 mi away.
- large white trillium96 obs
- Virginia Springbeauty70 obs
- cut-leaved toothwort58 obs
- mayapple56 obs
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit52 obs
- rue anemone39 obs
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage35 obs
- Monarch32 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/380704545
Day trips start here
- Greensburg · 10 mi
- New Stanton · 16 mi
- Irwin · 17 mi
- Donegal · 18 mi
- Connellsville · 27 mi
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