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Riverside Park

Riverside Park from directly overhead

Riverside Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 30 m. Black Mountain stands 805 m to the west-northwest, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Skenesborough Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Lakes to Locks Passage runs past it.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
30 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates43.55417, -73.40214

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Ward Marsh Wildlife Management Area: 1.7 mi
  • Village Green: 7.3 mi
  • Slate Quarry Park: 8.8 mi
  • Hazel Island: 9.0 mi
  • Sarah Island: 9.0 mi
Historic sites: 39
  • Lafayette's Tour: 0.1 mi
  • Old Champlain Canal Lock 19: 7.8 mi
  • The Stand Against Burgoyne: 10.2 mi
  • Fort Anne: 10.2 mi
  • Fort Anne: 10.3 mi
Nature reserves: 31
Cliffs: 25
Museums: 21
  • Skenesborough Museum: 0.0 mi
  • Benson Museum: 11.6 mi
  • Pember Library and Museum: 12.4 mi
  • Slate Valley Museum: 12.4 mi
  • Bolton Historical Museum: 12.7 mi
Attractions: 19
  • Ballard Farm: 14.6 mi
  • Lake George Steamboat Company: 17.9 mi
  • Leonelli's Playland Arcade: 18.0 mi
  • Doctor Morbid's Haunted House: 18.1 mi
  • Wildwest Ranch & Western Town: 18.7 mi
Picnic sites: 12
Gardens: 8
  • Community Garden: 13.9 mi
  • Japanese Garden: 15.8 mi
  • Arboretum: 18.8 mi
  • Colonial Revival King's Garden: 19.9 mi
  • Colonial Revival King's Garden: 19.9 mi
Beaches: 7
  • Lake Hadlock Beach: 13.1 mi
  • Hague Town Beach: 14.0 mi
  • Black Point Public Beach: 17.2 mi
  • Morey Stein Beach: 20.0 mi
  • Sandbar Beach: 21.9 mi
Waterfalls: 6
Artworks: 5
  • Chiseled Slate monoliths: 8.8 mi
  • Mandala II: 11.7 mi
  • Oculus: 21.1 mi
  • The Leash Sculpture: 21.4 mi
  • Rutland Water Fountain: 21.5 mi
Covered bridges: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Vermont Welcome Center: 6.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.4 miles of Riverside Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Black MountainWNW 299°805 m7.4 mi
Erebus MountainWNW 281°765 m7.6 mi
Sleeping BeautyW 272°715 m7.4 mi
Buck MountainWSW 257°711 m10.0 mi
Fivemile MountainNW 304°688 m10.6 mi
Huckleberry MountainNW 306°680 m10.6 mi
Pilot KnobWSW 246°658 m11.2 mi
Spruce MountainNNW 334°604 m8.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2819:06
June solstice05:1319:5520:39
September equinox06:4118:1518:53
December solstice07:2415:3416:21

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F212333475968727163513928
Precip in3.02.63.03.33.34.44.44.53.64.13.03.6

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

Wildlife nearby
  • Painted Turtle193 obs
  • Northern Leopard Frog108 obs
  • Great Blue Heron102 obs
  • Common Garter Snake76 obs
  • Bald Eagle67 obs
  • Blue Dasher65 obs
  • Eastern Giant Swallowtail53 obs
  • Carolina Wren49 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/444280392

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