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Senate House State Historic Site

Senate House State Historic Site from directly overhead

Senate House State Historic Site is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 56 m. Twin Mountain South Summit stands 1,085 m to the north-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Senate House Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 6.7 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.93501, -74.01890

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Peace Park: 0.1 mi
  • Academy Green Park: 0.3 mi
  • LYE Parklet: 0.6 mi
  • Radio Park: 0.6 mi
  • Forsyth Park: 0.6 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • Veterans' Monument: 2.0 mi
  • Rondout Lighthouse: 2.2 mi
  • M. E. Church: 2.8 mi
  • Fountain: 3.1 mi
  • Veterans Memorial: 5.6 mi
Waterfalls
  • Coward's Falls: 2.3 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 6.2 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 6.2 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 6.2 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 6.2 mi
Cliffs: 40
Museums: 35
Artworks: 25
Gardens: 23
  • Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 0.5 mi
  • Rondout Community Garden: 2.0 mi
  • Formal Gardens: 7.4 mi
  • Ellipse: 7.5 mi
  • Rough Garden: 7.5 mi
Beaches: 20
  • Kingston Point Beach: 2.8 mi
  • Flint Beach: 6.0 mi
  • Ulster Landing Beach: 6.2 mi
  • Esopus Meadows Beach: 6.2 mi
  • Walnut Beach: 6.4 mi
Attractions: 12
  • Hudson River Cruises: 2.2 mi
  • Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 6.2 mi
  • Pompey’s Cave: 11.5 mi
  • Historic Huguenot District: 13.1 mi
  • Huguenot Street Historic District: 13.1 mi
Springs: 6
  • Bear Wallow: 13.9 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 13.9 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 15.2 mi
  • Devil's Acre spring: 19.3 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 20.2 mi
Picnic sites: 3
Lighthouses: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.2 miles of Senate House State Historic Site. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Twin Mountain South SummitNNW 337°1,085 m13.8 mi
Indian Head MountainNNW 339°1,083 m13.4 mi
Overlook MountainNNW 340°956 m11.0 mi
Plattekill MountainNNW 344°942 m12.4 mi
Ashokan High PointW 267°939 m13.8 mi
South TwinNNW 332°880.8 m13.1 mi
HilltopSSE 168°862 m11.5 mi
Little High PointW 267°854 m13.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2219:5320:36
September equinox06:4418:1818:55
December solstice07:2115:4316:29

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, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spotted Lanternfly58 obs
  • Japanese knotweed54 obs
  • tree-of-heaven45 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee44 obs
  • American pokeweed33 obs
  • common mugwort33 obs
  • Greater celandine27 obs
  • ground-ivy26 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.

National Register of Historic Places, reference 71000564OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/441809765

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