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Lighthouse Park

Lighthouse Park from directly overhead

Lighthouse Park is a park in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 194 m. Pleasant Hill stands 495 m to the south-southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Tom McCarty Memorial Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 0.4 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
City of Erie

How to reach it

Coordinates42.14400, -80.06216

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Tom McCarty Memorial Park: 0.1 mi
  • Wayne Park: 0.4 mi
  • Cranch Park: 0.8 mi
  • Pulaski Park: 0.8 mi
  • East Bayfront Park: 0.9 mi
Historic sites: 23
Museums: 18
Peaks: 5
Artworks: 4
  • Fruits of Labor: 1.6 mi
  • Nittany Lion Shrine: 4.6 mi
  • Schaefer's Auto Art: 7.8 mi
  • Jon's Fish Statue: 23.8 mi
Attractions: 3
Waterfalls: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Rest Area: 21.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lighthouse Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pleasant HillSSE 161°495 m23.8 mi
Mackey HillSSE 164°488 m21.7 mi
Gibson HillSSW 195°470 m20.4 mi
Mount PleasantS 182°454 m20.2 mi
Oak HillSSE 153°433 m17.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2518:5619:33
June solstice05:4520:1821:01
September equinox07:0818:4219:19
December solstice07:4616:0716:52

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F282936475968737265544434
Precip in3.42.53.13.53.53.73.33.44.34.43.84.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Erie Intl AP, 8 mi away.

  • Ring-billed Gull148 obs
  • Canada Goose113 obs
  • cypress spurge94 obs
  • Mallard81 obs
  • Northern Map Turtle78 obs
  • Osprey76 obs
  • Red-breasted Merganser69 obs
  • Bufflehead66 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/844281745

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