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Liberty Square

Liberty Square from directly overhead

Liberty Square is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 101 m. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the north, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Borscht Belt Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway runs past it.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
101 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.71692, -74.39327

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Mildred & Louis Resnick Park: 0.1 mi
  • Mill Street Park: 0.3 mi
  • Bob Mangels Botanical Gardens: 0.4 mi
  • Berme Road Park: 0.7 mi
  • Lippman Park: 3.9 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • High Point Fire Tower Site: 2.6 mi
  • Heroes’ Monument: 3.1 mi
  • Berrypicker Shack: 3.4 mi
  • Bear: 3.8 mi
  • Fly Brook Bridge Abutment: 4.9 mi
Cliffs: 36
Museums: 32
  • Borscht Belt Museum: 0.1 mi
  • Napanoch Station: 2.1 mi
  • Pine Bush UFO Museum: 8.8 mi
  • Fire Department Museum: 14.0 mi
  • Ulster County Fair Agricultural Museum: 14.0 mi
Waterfalls: 29
Attractions: 29
  • Overturned 1938 Truck: 1.7 mi
  • Swimming Hole: 10.4 mi
  • Pompey’s Cave: 13.3 mi
  • Ulster County Fair: 14.1 mi
  • Historic Huguenot District: 16.0 mi
Gardens: 20
Beaches: 13
Artworks: 10
Springs: 7
  • Box Spring: 8.2 mi
  • Piped Spring: 14.8 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 14.8 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 15.4 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 15.4 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • Wallkill Rest Area: 17.2 mi
  • Middletown Rest Area: 20.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.8 miles of Liberty Square. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Slide MountainN 1°1,266 m19.5 mi
Cornell MountainN 6°1,174 m19.7 mi
Table MountainN 358°1,165.86 m16.7 mi
Peekamoose MountainN 359°1,164.03 m16.3 mi
Lone MountainN 1°1,127.76 m17.4 mi
Friday MountainN 5°1,125 m18.8 mi
DinkN 5°1,115.26 m19.4 mi
Balsam CapN 6°1,099.72 m18.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3319:10
June solstice05:2419:5420:36
September equinox06:4618:2018:57
December solstice07:2215:4616:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262937496069737164534232
Precip in3.83.24.34.04.04.84.74.85.25.23.84.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mohonk Lake, 13 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • hay-scented fern9 obs
  • sensitive fern8 obs
  • cinnamon fern8 obs
  • American sycamore7 obs
  • intermediate wood fern7 obs
  • Common Garter Snake6 obs
  • Spongy Moth6 obs
  • common bracken6 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/419506948

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