River Forest Park
River Forest Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 115 m. Manns Hill stands 495 m to the southeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Graham Park, a park 1.5 miles away. Scenic Route 90 passes 7.4 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 115 m
How to reach it
- 7.4 mi off the Scenic Route 90
- 10.9 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 13.2 mi off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, National
- 26.9 mi off the Route 20 Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Paid viewfinder · 25 mi
- Meteorology Observation Deck · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Graham Park: 1.5 mi
- Seneca River Boat Launch: 3.3 mi
- Erie Canal Heritage Park: 3.8 mi
- Erie Canal Park: 4.2 mi
- Howland Island Game Refuge: 5.1 mi
- Berry Hump: 3.8 mi
- Pump Hill: 4.3 mi
- Eagle Hill: 5.4 mi
- Ashbys Pinnacle: 5.8 mi
- Hickory Hill: 5.9 mi
- Byron Lapp Memorial Trail: 7.6 mi
- Site of Crossover Bridge: 7.6 mi
- Cayuga-Seneca Canal Lock 11: 7.7 mi
- Clinton's Ditch: 7.7 mi
- Enlarged Erie Canal Dry Dock: 7.8 mi
- Seward House Museum: 9.9 mi
- Cayuga Museum of History and Art: 10.0 mi
- Harriet Tubman Visitor Center & Tubman Home for the Aged: 11.1 mi
- Harriet Tubman Residence: 11.2 mi
- Beaver Lake Visitor Center: 11.6 mi
- Baltimore Woods Nature Center: 13.8 mi
- Lettie M Cook Memorial Forest: 13.8 mi
- Camillus Forest Unique Area: 15.0 mi
- Snow Creek Ravine: 15.1 mi
- Holdridge Habitat Woods: 15.5 mi
- Harriet Tubman: 9.9 mi
- William Seward: 9.9 mi
- Bald Eagle: 10.8 mi
- Herons: 10.9 mi
- FireBear: 17.6 mi
- Trinity Memorial Garden: 15.6 mi
- Butterfly Garden of Hope: 19.1 mi
- James Pass Arboretum: 19.7 mi
- Hope Garden: 20.2 mi
- Bitternut Collective Permaculture Kitchen Garden: 20.8 mi
- Harriet Tubman Gravesite: 10.3 mi
- New York State Fairgrounds: 18.2 mi
- Great New York State Fair: 18.4 mi
- Cayuga Lake (Thomas B. Marsh): 18.5 mi
- Onondaga Lake Parkway Bridge: 19.5 mi
- Guppy Falls: 11.8 mi
- Marcellus Falls: 13.0 mi
- Wolcott Falls: 15.6 mi
- Lower Carpenter Falls: 21.4 mi
- Upper Carpenter Falls: 21.6 mi
- Scotts Bluff: 19.5 mi
- The Bluffs: 20.4 mi
- Sitts Bluff: 20.5 mi
- McIntyres Bluff: 21.2 mi
- Stevenson Beach: 18.2 mi
- Glenwood Beach: 18.4 mi
- Crescent Beach: 23.2 mi
- Klippel Spring: 20.1 mi
- Dorwin Springs: 22.1 mi
- Willow Bay: 17.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of River Forest Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manns Hill | SE 125° | 495 m | 23.3 mi |
| Bare Mountain | ESE 123° | 489 m | 24.9 mi |
| Miller Hill | ESE 111° | 435 m | 24.9 mi |
| Oak Hill | SSE 160° | 409 m | 23.3 mi |
| Case Hill | ESE 122° | 384 m | 23.5 mi |
| Bennett Hill | S 178° | 367 m | 25.0 mi |
| Howlett Hill | ESE 109° | 344 m | 15.4 mi |
| Baker Hill | ESE 112° | 330 m | 14.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:41 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:28 | 20:07 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:28 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 15:49 | 16:35 |
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 | 23 | 25 | 32 | 45 | 57 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 62 | 50 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Auburn, 10 mi away.
- purple pitcher plant9 obs
- Eastern Pondhawk4 obs
- Common Garter Snake3 obs
- large white trillium3 obs
- purple loosestrife3 obs
- American Toad3 obs
- Mourning Dove2 obs
- Great Blue Heron2 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 node/357599089
Day trips start here
- Weedsport · 2 mi
- Auburn · 10 mi
- Skaneateles · 12 mi
- Seneca Falls · 16 mi
- Wolcott · 16 mi
- Finger Lakes Apple Country · 22 mi
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