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Ralph Brooks Park

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Ralph Brooks Park is a park in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. Diamond Rock Hill stands 188 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Community Garden at Ralph Brooks Park, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Blue Route passes 8.5 miles off. 28 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates39.93148, -75.17771

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • Community Garden at Ralph Brooks Park: 0.0 mi
  • Community Garden at Ralph Brooks Park - Annex: 0.0 mi
  • The Point Breeze Gardens: 0.3 mi
  • South 22nd and Sears Street Garden: 0.3 mi
  • Titan Street Garden: 0.3 mi
Parks
  • Wharton Square: 0.4 mi
  • Wharton Square: 0.4 mi
  • Manton Green: 0.4 mi
  • Taylor Street Park: 0.5 mi
  • Chew Playground: 0.5 mi
Historic sites
  • 18th and Jackson War Memorial: 0.5 mi
  • Joey Giardello Statue: 0.7 mi
  • Major General John Fulton Reynolds: 0.8 mi
  • Stephen Girard: 0.8 mi
  • Louis Paolone: 1.1 mi
Artworks
Attractions
  • Italian market: 1.2 mi
  • One Liberty Observation Deck: 1.5 mi
  • The Universal Sphere: 1.7 mi
  • Reading Terminal: 1.8 mi
  • Chinatown Friendship Gate: 1.9 mi
Nature reserves
  • Centennial Arboretum: 4.1 mi
  • Cadwalader Tract: 7.1 mi
  • Marple Conservation Area: 8.5 mi
  • Almonesson Creek Park: 8.8 mi
  • Williamson Road Site: 9.1 mi
Picnic sites: 36
  • Picnic Grove: 1.4 mi
  • Bird Lake Picnic Area: 2.8 mi
  • Picnic Area #1: 3.0 mi
  • Picnic Area #2: 3.0 mi
  • Picnic Area 5: 4.3 mi
Peaks: 28
  • Fairmount: 2.4 mi
  • Lemon Hill: 2.9 mi
  • Georges Hill: 4.4 mi
  • Chestnut Hill: 10.3 mi
  • Sugarloaf Hill: 10.7 mi
Rest areas: 3
Springs: 2
Lighthouses: 1
Beaches: 1
  • Washington Lake Beach: 13.9 mi
Cliffs: 1
  • Monkey Rock: 14.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Diamond Rock HillWNW 300°188 m20.2 mi
Mount MiseryNW 305°176 m19.1 mi
Ebright AzimuthWSW 250°137 m19.3 mi
Chestnut HillN 351°136 m10.3 mi
Hunting HillW 278°125 m14.6 mi
Osborne HillW 269°113 m22.7 mi
Militia HillNNW 347°104 m13.3 mi
Camp HillN 356°104 m13.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0518:3719:13
June solstice05:3319:5320:33
September equinox06:4918:2419:00
December solstice07:2015:5716:40

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F353745566675807872604940
Precip in3.63.34.54.04.14.84.74.94.94.13.44.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Phila Franklin Inst, 2 mi away.

  • House Sparrow897 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly631 obs
  • White-throated Sparrow567 obs
  • Ovenbird543 obs
  • American Robin534 obs
  • Rock Pigeon499 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel491 obs
  • Peregrine Falcon479 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/291456005

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