Silver Lake Park
Silver Lake Park is a park in Delaware, at a modelled elevation of 17 m. Mount Felix stands 142 m to the west-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Lakeside Playground, a park 0.4 miles away. Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway passes 7.7 miles off. 22 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 7.7 mi off the Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway, National
- 12.3 mi off the Delaware Bayshore Byway, National
- 12.3 mi off the Bayshore Heritage Byway, National
- 17.6 mi off the Mason and Dixon Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Hawk Point · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Lakeside Playground: 0.4 mi
- Middletown Nature Area: 0.7 mi
- Estates at St. Anne's Park: 1.9 mi
- Charles E. Price Memorial Park at Levels Road: 2.4 mi
- Odessa Memorial Park: 2.6 mi
- Old Bohemia Wildlife Management Area: 4.7 mi
- Blackbird State Forest - Barlow Tract: 5.4 mi
- Blackbird State Forest - Bruce C. Ennis Tract: 6.4 mi
- Blackbird State Forest - Wright Tract: 6.6 mi
- Cedar Swamp Rocks Tract: 6.6 mi
- Taylor's Bridge School (District No. 66): 7.1 mi
- Augustine Beach: 8.1 mi
- Village of Port Penn: 8.5 mi
- Delaware River and Bay Monument: 9.3 mi
- Mount Harmon: 12.6 mi
- Massey Air Museum: 11.1 mi
- Smyrna Museum: 11.5 mi
- Historical Society of Cecil County: 12.8 mi
- Kent Museum: 16.1 mi
- Upper Bay Museum: 16.3 mi
- Grays Hill: 12.4 mi
- Iron Hill: 13.4 mi
- Daves Hill: 13.5 mi
- Grays Hill: 13.7 mi
- Black Hill: 13.8 mi
- Ronnys Garden World: 10.2 mi
- Monster Monument: 20.4 mi
- Wilmington & Western Railroad: 20.6 mi
- Wilmington Riverwalk: 21.7 mi
- Woodburn and Hall House - The Governor's House (First State Heritage Park): 22.1 mi
- Delaware Highway Memorial Garden: 9.8 mi
- Lepidoptera Trail, & Successional Woods: 15.3 mi
- Herbaceous Garden: 15.3 mi
- Native Garden: 15.3 mi
- Clark Garden: 15.3 mi
- Hammering Heart: 12.8 mi
- Chloe & Lucinda (Nubian Goats): 16.1 mi
- Wings of Thought: 16.2 mi
- The Student: 16.4 mi
- Hand: 20.8 mi
- Oakwood Beach: 12.4 mi
- North East Beach Area: 15.3 mi
- Roachs Shore: 15.4 mi
- Deemer's Beach: 15.7 mi
- Betterton Beach: 19.6 mi
- Frenchtown: 11.5 mi
- Glenville: 18.7 mi
- Lapidum: 24.7 mi
- Chauncey O. Simpson Memorial Rest Area: 9.9 mi
- Deepwater Rest Area: 20.7 mi
- White Banks: 15.3 mi
- The Eye: 23.5 mi
- Bethel Bridge Lighthouse (replica): 7.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Silver Lake Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Felix | WNW 291° | 142 m | 24.0 mi |
| Mount Ararat | WNW 297° | 134 m | 22.6 mi |
| Egg Hill | NW 326° | 125 m | 17.8 mi |
| Horseshoe Hill | N 6° | 101 m | 24.0 mi |
| Iron Hill | N 350° | 100 m | 13.4 mi |
| Foys Hill | WNW 303° | 92 m | 18.7 mi |
| Chestnut Hill | NNW 347° | 89 m | 14.5 mi |
| Drummond Hill | N 360° | 88 m | 18.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:40 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:54 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:26 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:01 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 44 | 55 | 64 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.9 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newark AG Farm, 15 mi away.
- Dikrella maculata9 obs
- American pokeweed8 obs
- Green Frog8 obs
- Calico Pennant6 obs
- common reed6 obs
- Common Green June Beetle6 obs
- Green Treefrog6 obs
- Turkey Vulture5 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/583603730
Day trips start here
- Chesapeake City · 8 mi
- Newark · 16 mi
- New Castle · 17 mi
- Pennsville · 18 mi
- Perryville · 21 mi
- Salem County · 21 mi
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