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State Fish Lands

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State Fish Lands is a park in Pennsylvania, at a recorded elevation of 479 m. Boone Mountain stands 736 m to the east-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is "THE ROCKS" swimming hole, a attraction 2.1 miles away. Bucktail Trail passes 18 miles off. 163 named places lie within 25 miles, 35 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
479 m

How to reach it

Coordinates41.16673, -78.83309

163 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 55
  • Falls Creek Park: 2.3 mi
  • Pocket Pizza Park: 4.7 mi
  • Twisted Garden Park: 4.8 mi
  • Dubois City Memorial Park: 4.8 mi
  • Captain Kidd Park: 5.9 mi
Peaks: 35
  • Murray Summit: 5.4 mi
  • Coal Hill: 10.9 mi
  • Boone Mountain: 11.2 mi
  • The Hogback: 12.7 mi
  • Stahlman Roundtop: 14.3 mi
Historic sites: 21
  • Coke Ovens: 6.3 mi
  • Brockway Clay Pipe Factory: 6.5 mi
  • Coalmine Cart: 8.4 mi
  • Coke Ovens: 8.5 mi
  • Helvetia Historical Dedication Site: 8.8 mi
Artworks: 17
Museums: 9
  • DuBois Area Historical Society: 4.9 mi
  • Reynoldsville Historical Society: 5.7 mi
  • Taylor Memorial Museum: 6.1 mi
  • Jefferson County History Center: 12.8 mi
  • Coolspring Power Museum: 15.6 mi
Attractions: 6
  • "THE ROCKS" swimming hole: 2.1 mi
  • Presidential Train Car: 3.6 mi
  • The Little Caring Caboose: 3.6 mi
  • Farmer's Inn: 16.4 mi
  • Bilger's Rocks: 17.3 mi
Springs: 6
Cliffs: 3
Rest areas: 2
  • Jefferson County Rest Area Westbound: 5.8 mi
  • Jefferson County Rest Area Eastbound: 6.6 mi
Beaches: 2
Gardens: 2
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Boone MountainENE 60°736 m11.2 mi
Clearfield County Highpoint #2ESE 117°735 m15.5 mi
Chestnut Ridge-Clearfield County HighpointE 90°735 m24.8 mi
Hobo HillESE 106°683 m18.0 mi
Devils DenNNE 19°663 m16.3 mi
Coal HillSE 139°621 m10.9 mi
Rattlesnake HillENE 57°599 m16.2 mi
Dill HillNNE 20°589 m23.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2018:5119:28
June solstice05:4420:1120:52
September equinox07:0318:3819:14
December solstice07:3816:0616:50

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252735475765696861503930
Precip in2.92.43.33.73.74.74.43.94.03.43.23.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dubois Rgnl AP, 3 mi away.

  • Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander13 obs
  • Eastern Red-backed Salamander10 obs
  • Spotted Salamander9 obs
  • colt's-foot6 obs
  • American beech4 obs
  • yellow birch4 obs
  • Magnificent Bryozoan4 obs
  • Watershield4 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357355843

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