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Veterans Memorial Park

Veterans Memorial Park from directly overhead

Veterans Memorial Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 264 m. Cork Hill stands 577 m to the southwest, 9.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Southside Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway passes 21 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
264 m

How to reach it

Coordinates42.10702, -75.95853

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Southside Park: 0.0 mi
  • West End Park: 0.6 mi
  • Boland Park: 0.6 mi
  • Brown Park: 0.7 mi
  • Schubert Park: 0.7 mi
Peaks
Attractions: 22
Nature reserves: 21
Historic sites: 13
Artworks: 12
  • Reclining Figure on Pedestal: 1.3 mi
  • Falling Man: 1.4 mi
  • Pegasus Statue: 1.4 mi
  • Dickinson Object: 1.4 mi
  • Bent of Tau Beta Pi: 1.5 mi
Museums: 10
Rest areas: 5
Gardens: 3
  • Laurel Ave Community Garden: 1.5 mi
  • Outdoor Biological Research Facility: 2.0 mi
  • Campus Garden: 2.7 mi
Springs: 2
  • The Salt Spring: 14.3 mi
  • Salt Springs: 14.4 mi
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.5 miles of Veterans Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cork HillSW 216°577 m9.9 mi
Ingraham HillS 173°556 m3.2 mi
Birchard HillSSE 162°555 m18.9 mi
Lucky HillS 169°550 m5.8 mi
Stonecrop HillSSE 149°549 m14.5 mi
Bobell HillNE 51°546 m18.3 mi
Brady HillSSE 153°545 m7.5 mi
Hickory KnobESE 121°537 m16.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0818:3919:16
June solstice05:2920:0220:44
September equinox06:5218:2619:03
December solstice07:3015:5016:36

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F232532455664696760493828
Precip in2.62.43.13.63.84.73.84.14.03.83.13.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Binghamton, 7 mi away.

  • Eastern Newt240 obs
  • Eastern Red-backed Salamander210 obs
  • Green Frog193 obs
  • Canada Goose184 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird179 obs
  • White-tailed Deer172 obs
  • Kokkocynips rileyi169 obs
  • Common Garter Snake162 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/357590470

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