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Orient Beach State Park

Orient Beach State Park from directly overhead

Orient Beach State Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 0 m. Brown Hill stands 112 m to the north, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Orient Beach, a beach 0.4 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 0.9 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Step-free access
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.13468, -72.26378

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Beaches
Parks
  • Orient Point County Park: 2.0 mi
  • Old Schoolhouse Park: 3.9 mi
  • Norman E. Klipp Marine Park: 4.8 mi
  • Mitchell Park: 5.5 mi
  • Mitchell Park: 5.6 mi
Peaks
  • Browns Hills: 2.0 mi
  • Powder Hill: 9.0 mi
  • Whale Hill: 9.4 mi
  • Johnnycake Hill: 12.4 mi
  • Meeting House Hill: 12.5 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions: 19
  • Slaves Burying Ground: 1.6 mi
  • Parking: 1.6 mi
  • watchtower: 5.6 mi
  • Water Mill Windmill: 16.2 mi
  • The Whale: 17.6 mi
Gardens: 18
  • Rock Garden: 13.9 mi
  • West Garden: 13.9 mi
  • East Garden: 14.0 mi
  • Cutting Garden: 14.0 mi
  • Sensory Garden: 14.4 mi
Artworks: 17
  • Big Bird: 9.2 mi
  • Lion Gardner Statue: 11.3 mi
  • Stonehenge Replica: 16.5 mi
  • Sweet Shoppe: 17.2 mi
  • Altmans Needle & Fiber Arts: 17.2 mi
Waterfalls: 12
  • Silver Falls: 19.3 mi
  • Cascade: 19.7 mi
  • Cascade: 19.9 mi
  • Cascade: 23.1 mi
  • Cascade: 23.3 mi
Cliffs: 8
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 3
  • Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 13.8 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 22.4 mi
  • Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 24.6 mi
Picnic sites: 3
Springs: 1
  • Old Spring: 24.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.9 miles of Orient Beach State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Brown HillN 350°112 m17.7 mi
Pond HillN 4°103 m16.1 mi
Smith HillN 4°89 m17.5 mi
Pumphouse HillN 359°86 m16.2 mi
Book HillNNW 334°85 m17.9 mi
Lord HillNNW 345°83 m16.0 mi
Wilson HillN 8°79 m15.6 mi
Mares HillNNW 327°79 m16.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2519:01
June solstice05:1719:4420:26
September equinox06:3718:1218:48
December solstice07:1215:4016:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323239505767757467574739

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Orient PT SP, under a mile away.

Wildlife nearby
  • low pricklypear31 obs
  • Osprey18 obs
  • American Herring Gull17 obs
  • Long-tailed Duck13 obs
  • Common Box Turtle13 obs
  • seaside pea13 obs
  • eastern redcedar12 obs
  • White-tailed Deer11 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/434932020

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