Refugee Island
Refugee Island is a park, at a modelled elevation of 75 m. Poplar Hill stands 205 m to the southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Heathers Point, a cliff 0.5 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 1.2 miles off. 145 named places lie within 25 miles, 11 of them named summits.
How to reach it
- 1.2 mi off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, National
- 13.2 mi off the Black River Trail
145 named places within 25 miles
- Aerial View of James Smart Manufacturing Co Ltd.: 1.4 mi
- Women's Memorial: 1.4 mi
- RCAF CF-86 Golden Hawks Aerobatic Flight Team: 1.4 mi
- Forsyth's Raid: 1.4 mi
- Blockhouse Island: 1.6 mi
- St. Lawrence Park: 0.6 mi
- Cunningham Park: 1.0 mi
- Little Fulford Park: 1.0 mi
- Stovin Island: 1.1 mi
- Rotary Park: 1.2 mi
- De Peyster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 8.5 mi
- De Peyster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 8.5 mi
- Lonesome Bay State Forest: 9.1 mi
- Hickory Lake State Forest: 11.6 mi
- St. Lawrence Islands National Park: 11.9 mi
- Escape Brockville: 1.7 mi
- Brockville Railway Tunnel: 1.7 mi
- Brockville Underwater Sculpture Park: 1.9 mi
- The Blue Church: 10.2 mi
- Battle of the Windmill National Historic Site: 14.8 mi
- Barter Hill: 13.1 mi
- Huckleberry Mountain: 13.3 mi
- Bean Hill: 15.5 mi
- Mount Lona: 15.5 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 20.2 mi
- Brockville Museum: 1.3 mi
- Aquatarium: 1.5 mi
- Fulford Place: 2.4 mi
- Homewood Museum: 8.1 mi
- Hammond Historical Museum: 8.1 mi
- Heathers Point: 0.5 mi
- Fulford Point: 3.1 mi
- Hudson's Point: 3.7 mi
- Women's Memorial: 1.4 mi
- Italian Garden: 19.0 mi
- Picnic Area: 19.1 mi
- Lisbon Beach: 21.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Refugee Island. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poplar Hill | SE 142° | 205 m | 24.5 mi |
| Reservoir Hill | SE 144° | 184 m | 20.8 mi |
| Battle Hill | SE 137° | 183 m | 21.8 mi |
| Hand Hill | SE 139° | 182 m | 21.5 mi |
| Huckleberry Mountain | ESE 123° | 163 m | 13.3 mi |
| Honey Hill | S 183° | 155 m | 20.9 mi |
| Pulpit Rock | S 170° | 150 m | 20.2 mi |
| Hailes Hopyard | SE 144° | 142 m | 21.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:37 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 20:07 | 20:52 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:24 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 15:38 | 16:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 17 | 19 | 29 | 43 | 56 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 61 | 49 | 37 | 25 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ogdensburg 4 NE, 17 mi away.
- Mallard46 obs
- Ring-billed Gull38 obs
- Canada Goose25 obs
- American Toad19 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant15 obs
- Round Goby14 obs
- Common Merganser13 obs
- Japanese Beetle13 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/127670925
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