Thornden Park
Thornden Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 177 m. Morgan Hill stands 618 m to the south-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is E.M. Mills Memorial Rose Garden, a garden 0.2 miles away. Route 20 Scenic Byway passes 10 miles off.
What the record says
- Built
- 1875
- Elevation
- 177 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 10.4 mi off the Route 20 Scenic Byway
- 27.8 mi off the Revolutionary Trail
- 28.0 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Named places within 25 miles
- Climate Change Garden: 0.3 mi
- Walnut Park: 0.3 mi
- Loguen Park: 0.4 mi
- Westminster Park: 0.5 mi
- Spencer Park: 0.7 mi
- Chestnut Ridge: 4.9 mi
- Clark Hill: 5.0 mi
- Gillis Hill: 6.6 mi
- Miller Hill: 6.8 mi
- Terre Hill: 7.6 mi
- Wiesner Green Space: 2.7 mi
- Richards Green Space: 3.2 mi
- Lafayette Road Experiment Station: 3.5 mi
- Bigsby Drumlin: 4.4 mi
- Delaney Green Space: 5.0 mi
- Police Memorial: 0.8 mi
- Redfield Monument: 0.9 mi
- People's African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: 0.9 mi
- Pyramid Grave: 1.0 mi
- Spanish War Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Everson Museum of Art: 1.1 mi
- Onondaga Historical Association Museum & Research Center: 1.2 mi
- Erie Canal Museum: 1.3 mi
- Museum of Science and Technology: 1.5 mi
- Friends of Clark Reservation State Park Nature Center: 3.7 mi
- Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti: 0.5 mi
- Supplicant Persephone: 0.5 mi
- Job: 0.5 mi
- Saltine Warrior: 0.5 mi
- Lincoln Statue: 0.5 mi
- Brickyard Falls: 8.1 mi
- Edwards Falls: 9.0 mi
- Pratts Falls: 10.1 mi
- Marcellus Falls: 11.1 mi
- Guppy Falls: 14.6 mi
- E.M. Mills Memorial Rose Garden: 0.2 mi
- Morningside Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- South Side Garden: 1.4 mi
- Bitternut Collective Permaculture Kitchen Garden: 2.2 mi
- James Pass Arboretum: 3.3 mi
- Jamesville Beach: 5.7 mi
- Green Lakes Beach: 8.3 mi
- Valentine's Beach: 11.5 mi
- Oneida Shores: 12.7 mi
- Verona Beach: 22.0 mi
- Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center: 1.1 mi
- Onondaga Lake Parkway Bridge: 4.8 mi
- Great New York State Fair: 4.9 mi
- New York State Fairgrounds: 5.1 mi
- Harriet Tubman Gravesite: 23.9 mi
- Galster Pavilion: 3.9 mi
- Cedar Bay Pavilion: 4.4 mi
- Willow Bay: 7.7 mi
- Spruce Grove Picnic Area: 10.1 mi
- Poolsbrook Picnic Area: 10.6 mi
- Dorwin Springs: 4.3 mi
- Preble: 22.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.3 miles of Thornden Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Hill | SSE 159° | 618 m | 18.9 mi |
| Truxton Hill | S 172° | 616 m | 19.8 mi |
| Fellows Hill | SSE 162° | 611 m | 16.8 mi |
| Hunt Hill | SE 141° | 611 m | 23.1 mi |
| Labrador Hill | S 169° | 606 m | 18.6 mi |
| Ripley Hill | SSW 198° | 604 m | 18.3 mi |
| Kinney Hill | SE 137° | 599 m | 20.6 mi |
| Jones Hill | SSE 166° | 598 m | 17.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:09 | 18:39 | 19:17 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 20:05 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:26 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 15:47 | 16:33 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 26 | 34 | 46 | 58 | 67 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 51 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Syracuse Hancock Intl AP, 5 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel509 obs
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander502 obs
- American Robin295 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle283 obs
- Groundhog239 obs
- White-tailed Deer231 obs
- ribwort plantain216 obs
- common buckthorn208 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/33356088
Day trips start here
- Syracuse · 1 mi
- Cazenovia · 16 mi
- Central New York · 17 mi
- Skaneateles · 17 mi
- Weedsport · 22 mi
- Auburn · 23 mi
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