Sparrow Island
Sparrow Island is a park, at a modelled elevation of 75 m. Poplar Hill stands 205 m to the southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Stovin Island, a park 0.2 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 0.8 miles off. 151 named places lie within 25 miles, 11 of them named summits.
How to reach it
- 0.8 mi off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, National
- 14.4 mi off the Black River Trail
151 named places within 25 miles
- Aerial View of James Smart Manufacturing Co Ltd.: 2.7 mi
- Women's Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Forsyth's Raid: 2.7 mi
- RCAF CF-86 Golden Hawks Aerobatic Flight Team: 2.7 mi
- James Morris: 2.8 mi
- Stovin Island: 0.2 mi
- Refugee Island: 1.3 mi
- St. Lawrence Park: 1.7 mi
- Little Fulford Park: 2.2 mi
- Cunningham Park: 2.3 mi
- Lonesome Bay State Forest: 8.5 mi
- De Peyster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 9.3 mi
- De Peyster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 9.3 mi
- St. Lawrence Islands National Park: 10.7 mi
- South Hammond State Forest: 11.6 mi
- Escape Brockville: 2.9 mi
- Brockville Railway Tunnel: 2.9 mi
- Brockville Underwater Sculpture Park: 3.2 mi
- The Blue Church: 11.5 mi
- Battle of the Windmill National Historic Site: 16.0 mi
- Huckleberry Mountain: 13.6 mi
- Barter Hill: 14.0 mi
- Bean Hill: 14.4 mi
- Mount Lona: 16.5 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 19.5 mi
- Brockville Museum: 2.6 mi
- Aquatarium: 2.8 mi
- Fulford Place: 3.7 mi
- Hammond Historical Museum: 7.3 mi
- Homewood Museum: 9.4 mi
- Heathers Point: 1.2 mi
- Fulford Point: 1.8 mi
- Hudson's Point: 2.4 mi
- Lisbon Beach: 22.6 mi
- Murphy's Beach: 24.8 mi
- Canoe Beach: 25.0 mi
- Women's Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Italian Garden: 17.7 mi
- Picnic Area: 17.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sparrow Island. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poplar Hill | SE 139° | 205 m | 24.4 mi |
| Reservoir Hill | SE 141° | 184 m | 20.7 mi |
| Battle Hill | SE 134° | 183 m | 21.8 mi |
| Hand Hill | SE 135° | 182 m | 21.4 mi |
| Huckleberry Mountain | ESE 118° | 163 m | 13.6 mi |
| Honey Hill | S 181° | 155 m | 19.9 mi |
| Pulpit Rock | SSE 167° | 150 m | 19.5 mi |
| Hailes Hopyard | SE 141° | 142 m | 21.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:37 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 20:07 | 20:52 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:24 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 15:38 | 16:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 16 | 18 | 28 | 42 | 54 | 64 | 68 | 67 | 59 | 47 | 36 | 24 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gouverneur 3 NW, 17 mi away.
- Round Goby11 obs
- pitch pine10 obs
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander9 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle9 obs
- Pale Green Assassin Bug9 obs
- Mallard8 obs
- American Toad8 obs
- Ring-billed Gull7 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/127671409
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