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Lansing Park

Lansing Park from directly overhead

Lansing Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 70 m. Rocky Hill stands 625 m to the east-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 12, a historic site 0.3 miles away. Mohawk Towpath Byway passes 0.8 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
70 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.76829, -73.70999

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 12: 0.3 mi
  • Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 11: 0.3 mi
  • Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 10: 0.5 mi
  • Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 14: 0.5 mi
  • Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 9: 0.6 mi
Parks
  • West End Park: 0.4 mi
  • George Street Park: 0.4 mi
  • Gristini Park: 0.6 mi
  • Cohoes Canal Square Park: 0.6 mi
  • Horace B. Silliman Memorial Park: 0.7 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
Museums: 51
Gardens: 39
  • Ninth Street Community Garden: 2.3 mi
  • Tenth Street Community Garden: 2.3 mi
  • Brinton and Avery's Place: 2.8 mi
  • Avery's Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Gretchen's Garden: 2.9 mi
Waterfalls: 37
  • Cohoes Falls: 1.3 mi
  • Piscawen Falls: 2.8 mi
  • Poesten Kill Falls: 3.6 mi
  • Poesten Kill Falls: 3.7 mi
  • Upper Burden Falls: 4.4 mi
Attractions: 34
  • Uncle Sam's Grave: 2.2 mi
  • United Methodist Church bell: 2.5 mi
  • Saint Brigid's Bell: 4.2 mi
  • Stanford Mausoleum: 4.3 mi
  • William Learned Marcy Grave: 4.3 mi
Artworks: 32
Springs: 15
  • Spring Avenue Spring: 3.9 mi
  • Bathtub Spring: 19.1 mi
  • Karista Spring: 20.0 mi
  • Tallulah Spring: 20.1 mi
  • Polaris: 20.1 mi
Cliffs: 11
Beaches: 5
Rest areas: 3
  • Clifton Park Rest Area: 8.2 mi
  • Rest Area I-87 (South Bound): 12.7 mi
  • Rest Area I-90 (West Bound): 18.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.4 miles of Lansing Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Rocky HillESE 115°625 m18.5 mi
Perigo HillESE 119°571 m14.2 mi
Buck RockESE 120°562 m18.8 mi
The GipfelSE 127°561 m15.3 mi
Dickinson HillE 83°537 m15.1 mi
Johnson HillSE 134°537 m17.6 mi
Buckwheat HillSE 133°530 m18.8 mi
Moore HillSE 128°508 m20.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3019:07
June solstice05:1719:5420:37
September equinox06:4318:1718:54
December solstice07:2315:3916:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262836496170757366534232
Precip in2.62.42.93.13.84.64.63.93.84.22.83.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Troy L&D, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Bald Eagle67 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee46 obs
  • White-tailed Deer39 obs
  • Vineyard Snail39 obs
  • Common Garter Snake36 obs
  • Great Blue Heron34 obs
  • tree-of-heaven29 obs
  • Powdered Dancer29 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/124656439

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