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Stackhouse Park

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Stackhouse Park is a park in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 463 m. Blue Knob stands 953 m to the east, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Brownstown Recreation Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway passes 6.8 miles off. 52 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.32934, -78.93980

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Brownstown Recreation Park: 0.5 mi
  • The Mound: 0.6 mi
  • Point Park: 0.8 mi
  • People's Natural Gas Park: 0.8 mi
  • Veterans Park: 0.9 mi
Peaks: 52
Attractions: 41
  • Jack Be Nimble: 18.2 mi
  • Hush A Bye Baby: 18.2 mi
  • Hickory Dickory Dock: 18.2 mi
  • The Elf Pond: 18.2 mi
  • Humpty Dumpty: 18.2 mi
Historic sites: 27
  • Rolling Mills Mine Disaster: 0.8 mi
  • John P. Murtha Statue: 0.9 mi
  • World War II Memorial: 1.1 mi
  • POW MIA: 1.5 mi
  • St. Michael Veterans' Memorial: 9.3 mi
Museums: 21
Nature reserves: 10
Artworks: 8
Cliffs: 7
Picnic sites: 5
Gardens: 3
  • Laurel Ave Community Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Monastic Garden Area: 24.2 mi
  • Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve Colonial Garden: 24.4 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Waterfalls: 2
Springs: 2
  • Gallitzin Spring: 23.3 mi
  • Kooser Spring: 24.5 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Keystone Beach: 23.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Stackhouse Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Blue KnobE 98°953 m20.1 mi
Schaefer HeadE 91°898 m20.0 mi
Bald KnobSW 223°893 m20.3 mi
Sugar Camp HillSW 232°887 m10.9 mi
Pea Vine HillSW 228°886 m15.2 mi
Mystery HillSW 230°878 m11.3 mi
Ritchey KnobE 87°874 m22.2 mi
Irwin HillSW 233°868 m9.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2018:5219:28
June solstice05:4720:0920:50
September equinox07:0418:3919:15
December solstice07:3616:1016:53

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262936485966706962514031
Precip in2.52.53.13.54.14.44.24.04.03.13.12.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Johnstown Cambria CO AP, 6 mi away.

  • Western Honey Bee26 obs
  • White-tailed Deer24 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly23 obs
  • bittersweet nightshade20 obs
  • Goutweed16 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee16 obs
  • Northern Cardinal15 obs
  • dame's rocket15 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.

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OpenStreetMap element way/549189661

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