Lily Ponds Park & Nature Preserve
Lily Ponds Park & Nature Preserve is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 18 m. Jayne's Hill stands 122 m to the west, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Historic Lake Towers Hotel, a historic site 0.4 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 25 miles off. 33 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 18 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 25.4 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Historic Lake Towers Hotel: 0.4 mi
- 9/11 Responders Remembered Park: 0.5 mi
- Lt. Michael P. Murphy Memorial : 1.1 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: We Shall Never Forget: 2.3 mi
- Lt. Michael Murphy Memorial Monument: 3.6 mi
- Lake Ronkonkoma County Park: 0.4 mi
- 9/11 Responders Remembered Park: 0.5 mi
- Gibbs Pond Park / Andreoli Park: 0.8 mi
- Ronkonkoma Beach: 0.8 mi
- Larry's Landing: 0.9 mi
- Lake Ronkonkoma Historical Society: 1.4 mi
- Caleb Smith House: 5.3 mi
- Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages: 5.3 mi
- The Jazz Loft: 5.9 mi
- Islip Town Firefighters Museum: 6.1 mi
- Butler-Huntington Woods: 4.2 mi
- Sweetbriar Nature Center: 4.5 mi
- Suffolk County Park: 4.7 mi
- Forestwood Park: 4.8 mi
- Bill Richards Memorial Park: 4.9 mi
- Sand Street Beach: 6.1 mi
- Long Beach: 6.4 mi
- Schuberts Beach: 6.4 mi
- West Meadow Beach: 7.5 mi
- Green's Creek Beach: 8.1 mi
- Long Island Dahlia Garden: 6.8 mi
- Longwood Community Garden: 10.1 mi
- Community Reflection Garden: 10.3 mi
- Walled Garden: 12.1 mi
- Carlls River Botanical Garden: 13.0 mi
- Animal Sculptures: 2.2 mi
- Art Gallery: 3.6 mi
- Cartas Al Cielo: 5.2 mi
- Wolfie Statue: 5.4 mi
- Umbilic Torus: 5.5 mi
- Mount Misery: 9.2 mi
- Dix Hills: 11.9 mi
- Signal Hill: 12.7 mi
- Half Hollow Hills: 13.3 mi
- Jayne's Hill: 15.7 mi
- Wolf 1: 4.9 mi
- Wolf 2: 5.0 mi
- Wolf 3: 5.0 mi
- Wolf 4: 5.0 mi
- Wolf 5: 5.0 mi
- Hercules Pavillion: 5.8 mi
- Long Island Maritime Museum: 8.1 mi
- Suffolk County Vanderbilt Planetarium: 13.4 mi
- ATCG Tower: 17.9 mi
- Exit sign: 19.3 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 16.2 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 20.6 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 20.9 mi
- Fog Signal House: 21.8 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 21.9 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 14.5 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 18.8 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 19.4 mi
- Cooper Bluff: 19.7 mi
- Northwest Bluff: 20.2 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 22.5 mi
- Cuties Island: 24.3 mi
- Long Island Welcome Center: 10.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lily Ponds Park & Nature Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jayne's Hill | W 265° | 122 m | 15.7 mi |
| West Hills | W 265° | 106 m | 16.0 mi |
| Dix Hills | W 264° | 92 m | 11.9 mi |
| Signal Hill | W 264° | 90 m | 12.7 mi |
| Bald Hill | E 82° | 88 m | 22.0 mi |
| Mannetto Hills | W 261° | 85 m | 17.4 mi |
| Half Hollow Hills | WSW 255° | 77 m | 13.3 mi |
| Rock Hill | E 87° | 64 m | 19.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:29 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:47 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:15 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:45 | 16:28 |
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 | 32 | 33 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Islip-li Macarthur AP, 3 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly22 obs
- Common Box Turtle21 obs
- American chestnut21 obs
- Eastern Cottontail20 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee19 obs
- Canada Goose16 obs
- common mugwort16 obs
- eastern poison ivy16 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/49905846
Day trips start here
- Oyster Bay · 21 mi
- South Oyster Bay · 21 mi
- Bayville · 23 mi
- Merrick · 25 mi
- Nassau County · 25 mi
- Glen Cove · 26 mi
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