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Midway State Park

Midway State Park from directly overhead

Midway State Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 412 m. Pine Hill stands 649 m to the east-southeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Chautauqua Fish Hatchery, a nature reserve 1.4 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 13 miles off. 32 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

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Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.20007, -79.42267
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • The Ravine: 2.1 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 2.2 mi
  • Miller Park: 2.2 mi
  • Lincoln Park: 2.3 mi
  • Bestor Plaza: 2.3 mi
Peaks: 32
Nature reserves: 26
Museums: 21
  • The Lawson Center for Boating Heritage on Chautauqua Lake: 3.1 mi
  • Bemus Point Historical Society: 3.3 mi
  • Mayville Station: 4.9 mi
  • Lucille Ball Childhood Home: 9.7 mi
  • McClurg Museum: 11.5 mi
Historic sites: 16
Beaches: 9
Artworks: 6
  • Lucille Ball: 9.5 mi
  • Big Chair: 11.6 mi
  • Robert H. Jackson: 11.8 mi
  • Reuben E. Fenton: 12.0 mi
  • Jon's Fish Statue: 18.9 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Attractions: 4
  • Panama Rocks: 9.4 mi
  • I Love Lucy Mural: 11.9 mi
  • Lake Shore Savings Clock Tower: 18.0 mi
  • Dunkirk City Pier: 20.5 mi
Gardens: 3
Rest areas: 1
Springs: 1
  • Sulfur Spring: 16.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pine HillESE 106°649 m23.1 mi
Arab HillENE 60°640 m14.4 mi
Boutwell HillENE 59°635 m15.0 mi
Pickup HillENE 71°630 m16.0 mi
Luce HillNE 46°605 m13.4 mi
Fox HillSE 135°601 m23.9 mi
South HillENE 58°591 m16.4 mi
Brooks RocksS 186°583 m20.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2218:5319:30
June solstice05:4220:1620:58
September equinox07:0618:4019:17
December solstice07:4416:0416:49

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272836485969737165544334
Precip in2.62.42.93.43.83.64.43.84.64.93.83.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Westfield 2 SSE, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer7 obs
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit7 obs
  • common milkweed6 obs
  • Hickory Tussock Moth5 obs
  • sensitive fern5 obs
  • Pectoral Sandpiper4 obs
  • Bald Eagle4 obs
  • Groundhog4 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/441543856

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