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Roeliff Jansenkill Multiple Use Area

Roeliff Jansenkill Multiple Use Area from directly overhead

Roeliff Jansenkill Multiple Use Area is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 144 m. Mount Frissell stands 747 m to the east-northeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Briggs Mountain, a peak 1.5 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 21 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.00845, -73.73628

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Wilcox Memorial Park: 3.7 mi
  • Stissing Lake Park: 4.1 mi
  • Stissing Mountain Multiple Use Area: 5.3 mi
  • Red Hook Memorial Park: 7.1 mi
  • Abrams Park: 7.2 mi
Nature reserves
Waterfalls
  • Cantine Dam Falls: 11.8 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 12.5 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 12.7 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 12.7 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 12.7 mi
Historic sites: 52
Museums: 40
Artworks: 22
  • Diving Lady: 8.6 mi
  • Parliament of Reality: 8.7 mi
  • Stargon: 8.8 mi
  • America: 8.9 mi
  • Wishbone: 9.2 mi
Gardens: 20
  • Old Dutch Village Garden Club: 7.0 mi
  • The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 8.9 mi
  • Bard Community Garden: 9.0 mi
  • Blithewood Garden: 9.4 mi
  • Ellipse: 9.4 mi
Beaches: 18
  • West Beach: 5.7 mi
  • East Beach: 6.0 mi
  • South Landing: 10.1 mi
  • West Landing: 10.1 mi
  • Ulster Landing Beach: 10.7 mi
Cliffs: 13
Attractions: 11
  • wings castle: 11.9 mi
  • Hudson River Cruises: 14.1 mi
  • Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 16.3 mi
  • Town Hill Farm: 16.4 mi
  • Giant's Thumb: 17.6 mi
Lighthouses: 1
Picnic sites: 1
  • Guilder Pond Picnic area: 16.9 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.7 miles of Roeliff Jansenkill Multiple Use Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount FrissellENE 77°747 m13.4 mi
Brace MountainENE 79°706 m12.8 mi
South Brace MountainE 80°702 m12.8 mi
Round MountainENE 78°695 m13.6 mi
Alander MountainENE 65°680 m13.1 mi
Thorpe MountainE 95°518 m12.8 mi
Bird PeakE 99°477 m13.1 mi
Washburn MountainENE 60°463 m12.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3019:07
June solstice05:2019:5220:35
September equinox06:4318:1718:54
December solstice07:2015:4216:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634465866717062503930
Precip in4.13.14.13.93.84.14.64.94.35.33.64.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rhinebeck 4SE, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Red-backed Salamander5 obs
  • American Toad4 obs
  • Eastern Newt3 obs
  • Common Garter Snake3 obs
  • Rosy Maple Moth3 obs
  • Wood Frog3 obs
  • Dark Fishing Spider3 obs
  • Common Whitetail3 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/429543845

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