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Woodlawn Beach State Park

Woodlawn Beach State Park from directly overhead

Woodlawn Beach State Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 174 m. South Hill stands 540 m to the southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Hoover Beach, a park 0.9 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail runs past it. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates42.79208, -78.85142

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Hoover Beach: 0.9 mi
  • Blasdell Fireman's Park: 1.0 mi
  • Grafton Park: 1.2 mi
  • Jeffery A Taggart Memorial Park: 2.1 mi
  • Locksley Park: 2.1 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions: 50
  • Lucy Smith & Colesville: 4.0 mi
  • Firemens Building: 4.1 mi
  • Hamburg Fairgrounds: 4.2 mi
  • Historical Building: 4.3 mi
  • Buffal "O": 5.4 mi
Museums: 44
  • Hamburg Historical museum: 4.0 mi
  • Heritage DiscoveRy Center: 5.0 mi
  • Steel Plant Museum of Western New York: 5.0 mi
  • Orchard Park Historical Society: 5.8 mi
  • West Seneca Historical Society: 5.9 mi
Nature reserves: 16
  • Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve: 1.4 mi
  • Tifft Nature Preserve: 3.8 mi
  • Anna Mae Bacon Bird Sanctuary: 5.5 mi
  • Hampton Brook Woods Wildlife Management Area: 5.9 mi
  • Times Beach Nature Preserve: 5.9 mi
Gardens: 14
Peaks: 14
Waterfalls: 13
Cliffs: 10
  • Onondaga Escarpment: 15.2 mi
  • Mossy Point: 15.5 mi
  • Onondaga Escarpment: 16.2 mi
  • old gravel pit: 17.0 mi
  • Onondaga Escarpment: 17.0 mi
Beaches: 9
  • Gallagher Beach: 3.5 mi
  • Emerald Beach: 6.6 mi
  • Beaver Island Beach: 12.6 mi
  • Wendt Beach: 13.0 mi
  • Bennett Beach: 14.1 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Amanda's Place Pavilion: 5.1 mi
  • Pavilion #2: 15.7 mi
  • Eco Island: 17.1 mi
Rest areas: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South HillSE 145°540 m16.9 mi
Townsend HillSSE 157°533 m16.9 mi
Hammond HillSSE 167°510 m24.7 mi
East HillSE 142°509 m12.0 mi
Crow HillESE 114°500 m20.6 mi
Vermont HillESE 119°488 m18.6 mi
East Boston HillSE 143°486 m11.4 mi
Blanchard HillSE 138°481 m14.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2018:5019:28
June solstice05:3820:1520:58
September equinox07:0318:3719:15
December solstice07:4415:5916:45

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F232331435564686761493829
Precip in4.83.93.74.54.14.54.44.04.65.44.84.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Colden 1W, 12 mi away.

  • Ring-billed Gull23 obs
  • common milkweed23 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee22 obs
  • Monarch17 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee16 obs
  • viper's-bugloss15 obs
  • Killdeer14 obs
  • Brown-lipped Snail14 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/435894600

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