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Lawton Park

Lawton Park from directly overhead

Lawton Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 76 m. Overlook Mountain stands 956 m to the north-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Golden Hill, a peak 0.4 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 5.9 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
76 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.91919, -74.01316

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Barmann Park: 0.5 mi
  • LYE Parklet: 0.6 mi
  • Red Fox Ravine: 0.7 mi
  • Van Buren Street Playground: 0.8 mi
  • Radio Park: 0.8 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • Veterans' Monument: 1.4 mi
  • Rondout Lighthouse: 1.6 mi
  • M. E. Church: 1.8 mi
  • Fountain: 2.0 mi
  • Kiln: 4.9 mi
Waterfalls
  • Coward's Falls: 3.0 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 7.2 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 7.2 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 7.2 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 7.2 mi
Cliffs: 41
Museums: 35
Artworks: 24
  • Wishbone: 8.6 mi
  • America: 8.7 mi
  • Tomorrow: 9.2 mi
  • Flame: 9.2 mi
  • Opus 40: 9.2 mi
Gardens: 23
  • Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 0.7 mi
  • Rondout Community Garden: 1.5 mi
  • Formal Gardens: 8.1 mi
  • Ellipse: 8.1 mi
  • Rough Garden: 8.1 mi
Beaches: 20
  • Kingston Point Beach: 2.6 mi
  • Flint Beach: 5.0 mi
  • Esopus Meadows Beach: 5.1 mi
  • Walnut Beach: 5.4 mi
  • Private Beach: 6.0 mi
Attractions: 12
  • Hudson River Cruises: 1.6 mi
  • Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 5.1 mi
  • Pompey’s Cave: 10.9 mi
  • Historic Huguenot District: 12.1 mi
  • Huguenot Street Historic District: 12.1 mi
Springs: 7
  • Bear Wallow: 14.1 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 14.2 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 15.4 mi
  • Devil's Acre spring: 20.4 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 20.6 mi
Picnic sites: 3
Lighthouses: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.5 miles of Lawton Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Overlook MountainNNW 340°956 m12.2 mi
Plattekill MountainNNW 344°942 m13.5 mi
Ashokan High PointW 272°939 m14.1 mi
South TwinNNW 333°880.8 m14.2 mi
HilltopSSE 168°862 m10.4 mi
Little High PointW 271°854 m13.8 mi
Mount TobiasNW 313°775 m14.2 mi
Ticetonyk MountainWNW 299°765 m12.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2219:5320:36
September equinox06:4418:1818:55
December solstice07:2115:4416:29

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634465866717062503930
Precip in4.13.14.13.93.84.14.64.94.35.33.64.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rhinebeck 4SE, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spotted Lanternfly69 obs
  • Japanese knotweed61 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee56 obs
  • American pokeweed52 obs
  • tree-of-heaven49 obs
  • Mallard43 obs
  • Greater celandine39 obs
  • common mugwort37 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/385037652

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