Swan Lake State Park
Swan Lake State Park is a park in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 69 m. Mount Waldo stands 320 m to the east-northeast, 4.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Oak Hill, a peak 1.0 miles away.
What to expect
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Oak Hill: 1.0 mi
- Town Farm Hill: 1.2 mi
- Dutch Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Marden Hill: 2.6 mi
- Irish Hill: 2.9 mi
- Mount Waldo Preserve: 3.9 mi
- Basin Pond Recreation Area: 4.6 mi
- Long Cove Headwaters Preserve: 5.0 mi
- Meadow Brook Preserve: 5.4 mi
- Meadow Brook Preserve: 6.0 mi
- Gesner Park: 4.0 mi
- Mount Waldo Quarry: 5.4 mi
- Mendall Marsh Park: 5.9 mi
- Veterans’ Memorial Garden: 5.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 7.2 mi
- Sandy Point Beach: 9.4 mi
- Spragues Beach: 13.8 mi
- Wadsworth Cove Beach: 14.3 mi
- MMA Beach: 15.3 mi
- Cals Beach: 17.0 mi
- Winterport Historical Association: 8.2 mi
- Bucksport Historical Society Museum: 9.0 mi
- Belfast Historical Society: 9.7 mi
- Thorndike Meeting Place: 14.6 mi
- Castine Historical Society: 15.0 mi
- The Whale: 9.1 mi
- Before The Wind: 9.1 mi
- Unity Stones: 17.5 mi
- Paul Bunyan: 18.3 mi
- An Optimistic Vision Inspiring Neighborhood Recovery: 18.7 mi
- Fort Knox: 8.7 mi
- To Honor All Those Who Served To Protect Our Freedom May They Never Be Forgotten: 9.4 mi
- Fort Pownall: 10.6 mi
- Hampden Veterans' Memorial: 14.0 mi
- Castine Civil War Monument: 15.0 mi
- Dome home: 12.5 mi
- Fields Pond Visitor Center: 17.2 mi
- Hollywood Casino: 18.3 mi
- Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes: 18.9 mi
- Bangor YMCA: 19.0 mi
- Sears Island Ledge: 10.4 mi
- The Bluff: 14.6 mi
- Hogback Ledge: 15.5 mi
- The Bluffs: 16.4 mi
- The Bluffs: 16.5 mi
- Peace Garden: 15.5 mi
- Dye Garden: 15.5 mi
- Ecotat Gardens and Arboretum: 17.1 mi
- Children's Garden: 18.8 mi
- UMA Bangor Campus Garden: 18.8 mi
- Monroe Falls: 3.8 mi
- Lovers Leap: 19.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.1 miles of Swan Lake State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Waldo | ENE 76° | 320 m | 4.2 mi |
| Piper Mountain | NNW 333° | 318 m | 9.5 mi |
| Frank WEst Mountain | NNW 337° | 300 m | 9.3 mi |
| Oak Hill | WSW 239° | 258 m | 6.9 mi |
| Taggert Hill | WSW 249° | 249 m | 9.3 mi |
| Bear Hill | W 267° | 248 m | 3.4 mi |
| Pond Hill | WSW 245° | 248 m | 9.0 mi |
| Houstus Hill | W 260° | 242 m | 3.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:40 | 18:10 | 18:48 |
| June solstice | 04:52 | 19:40 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:24 | 17:57 | 18:35 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 15:11 | 15:59 |
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 | 20 | 22 | 30 | 41 | 52 | 61 | 67 | 66 | 59 | 48 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 5.4 | 4.7 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Belfast, 12 mi away.
- bluebead lily5 obs
- Common Loon4 obs
- Mallard4 obs
- Eastern Phoebe4 obs
- Indian tobacco4 obs
- Canada mayflower4 obs
- Canada mint4 obs
- Familiar Bluet4 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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