Beam Hill
Beam Hill rises to 594 m in New York. Virgil Mountain stands 643 m to the east-northeast, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Star Stanton Hill, a peak 1.2 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 10.0 miles off.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q34804551, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 594 m
How to reach it
- 10.0 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 12.5 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 10 mi
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Star Stanton Hill: 1.2 mi
- Hammond Hill: 1.8 mi
- Yellow Barn Hill: 2.1 mi
- Mount Pleasant: 4.2 mi
- Simms Hill: 5.0 mi
- Dryden Lake Multiple Use Area: 1.5 mi
- Time Square: 2.2 mi
- Montgomery Park: 2.2 mi
- Mill Dam Park: 4.5 mi
- Mill Dam Park: 4.6 mi
- Yellow Barn State Forest: 1.5 mi
- Roy H. Park Nature Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Slaterville 600 - Cornell Botanic Gardens: 2.8 mi
- Genung Nature Preserve: 4.6 mi
- Durland Nature Preserve: 5.2 mi
- Incodema: 7.3 mi
- Nor’easter Mountain Coaster: 8.4 mi
- The Overlook At West Hill (housing for the elderly): 12.1 mi
- Turn here for fresh eggs farm stand: 13.3 mi
- Stick And Stone Farm and CSA: 14.0 mi
- Potter's Falls: 8.6 mi
- Triphammer Falls: 9.1 mi
- Rocky Falls: 9.3 mi
- Horseshoe Falls: 9.4 mi
- Ithaca Falls: 9.7 mi
- Mill Dam Park Sign Planter: 4.5 mi
- Freeville Community Garden: 4.5 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 7.7 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 7.7 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 7.7 mi
- Tompkins Center for History & Culture: 10.0 mi
- Sciencenter: 10.3 mi
- 1890 House: 11.2 mi
- Field School House: 11.6 mi
- Museum of the Earth: 11.9 mi
- Birthplace of John D Rockefeller: 8.0 mi
- Andrew Dickson White Statue: 9.3 mi
- Monument of Ezra Cornell: 9.3 mi
- 1939 World's Fair Flagpole: 11.2 mi
- Bob Baker BBQ Pavilion: 11.5 mi
- Pinnacle Rock: 11.4 mi
- Point O'Rocks: 15.4 mi
- Whitney Point Rest Area: 16.7 mi
- Preble: 19.4 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 10.4 mi
- Tamarack Spring: 11.5 mi
- Der deutsche Strand: 12.5 mi
- Cheningo Day Use Area: 21.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.4 miles of Beam Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgil Mountain | ENE 74° | 643 m | 8.6 mi |
| Connecticut Hill | WSW 255° | 638 m | 19.4 mi |
| Greek Peak | ENE 72° | 637 m | 8.2 mi |
| South Hill | ENE 69° | 635 m | 8.1 mi |
| Tuller Hill | ENE 62° | 616 m | 10.1 mi |
| Star Stanton Hill | SE 140° | 612 m | 1.2 mi |
| Hammond Hill | SSE 167° | 598 m | 1.8 mi |
| Doll Hill | WSW 245° | 596 m | 19.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:09 | 18:40 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:29 | 20:04 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:53 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 15:50 | 16:36 |
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 | 22 | 23 | 31 | 44 | 55 | 64 | 67 | 66 | 59 | 48 | 37 | 28 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ithaca 13 E, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 943236 — Beam Hill, Tompkins County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357547233
Day trips start here
- Ithaca · 10 mi
- Cortland · 12 mi
- Trumansburg · 19 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 22 mi
- Watkins Glen · 30 mi
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