Bear Hill
Bear Hill rises to 185 m in New York. Stid Hill stands 635 m to the south-southwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Prospect Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 15 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Wayne County, New York, United States of America.
Wikidata Q34804638, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 185 m
How to reach it
- 15.5 mi off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, National
- 24.3 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 25.7 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Paid viewfinder · 20 mi
- Owen's Point · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Prospect Park: 0.5 mi
- Union Club Park: 0.8 mi
- Pal-Mac Aqueduct Park: 1.2 mi
- Swift's Landing Park: 2.3 mi
- Gravino Park: 3.5 mi
- Home site of the Joseph Smith Sr Family: 0.6 mi
- Read Admiral Willliam T. Sampson's: 0.6 mi
- Book of Mormon Publication Site: 0.8 mi
- EB Grandin Bookstore: 0.8 mi
- Dr. Alexander McIntyre Home: 0.8 mi
- Bowes Hill: 1.0 mi
- Walton Hill: 1.6 mi
- Johnson Hill: 1.8 mi
- Galloway Hill: 2.2 mi
- Hill Cumorah: 4.1 mi
- Elmer: 8.6 mi
- FLTG Golfball: 12.9 mi
- American Eagle: 13.0 mi
- Rebecca Well: 13.1 mi
- Faith Hope and Charity: 13.2 mi
- Mud Creek Aqueduct: 1.3 mi
- Enlarged Erie Canal Lock No. 60: 3.0 mi
- Lock 60 Historic Site: 3.0 mi
- Angel Moroni Monument: 3.2 mi
- Enlarged Erie Canal Lock No. 61: 3.7 mi
- Palmyra Historical Museum: 0.8 mi
- Alling Coverlet Museum: 0.8 mi
- Erie Canal Depot: 0.8 mi
- Print Shop Museum: 0.8 mi
- Phelps General Store and Residence: 0.8 mi
- Ganargua Creek Meadow Preserve: 6.0 mi
- High Acres Nature Area: 8.0 mi
- Hart's Woods: 11.4 mi
- Skenoh Island: 12.9 mi
- Burroughs Audubon Nature Club: 12.9 mi
- North Entrance/Exit Area (Exit lane Side Bed): 12.2 mi
- South Entrance/Exit Lane Bed (Entrance Lane Side): 12.3 mi
- North Entrance/Exit Lane Employee Parking Side Turf Area: 12.3 mi
- Hope Garden: 12.6 mi
- Prayer Garden at Mary Magdalene Church: 13.6 mi
- Postcard Falls: 15.6 mi
- Densmore Falls: 18.8 mi
- Upper Falls: 19.3 mi
- Honeoye Falls: 19.7 mi
- High Falls: 20.8 mi
- Kershaw Park Small Marine Craft Launch Area: 12.5 mi
- Kershaw Beach: 12.5 mi
- Crescent Beach: 20.5 mi
- Bristol Harbour Beach: 21.9 mi
- Windsor Beach: 23.2 mi
- Sprong Bluff: 17.9 mi
- Hi Banks: 21.6 mi
- Klippel Spring: 14.1 mi
- Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse: 23.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.7 miles of Bear Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stid Hill | SSW 201° | 635 m | 22.7 mi |
| Bare Hill | S 191° | 470 m | 22.3 mi |
| Oak Mountain | SW 222° | 358 m | 15.2 mi |
| Baptist Hill | SW 215° | 356 m | 17.6 mi |
| Harkness Hill | S 182° | 356 m | 19.7 mi |
| Hopper Hills | WSW 240° | 335 m | 14.9 mi |
| Lazarus Hill | S 178° | 323 m | 20.4 mi |
| Allens Hill | SW 225° | 317 m | 21.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:44 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 20:09 | 20:52 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:38 | 15:51 | 16:38 |
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 | 23 | 25 | 33 | 44 | 56 | 65 | 69 | 68 | 61 | 50 | 39 | 29 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sodus 1W, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 969850 — Bear Hill, Wayne County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357595845
Day trips start here
- Palmyra · 1 mi
- Farmington · 7 mi
- Newark · 7 mi
- Canandaigua · 12 mi
- Williamson · 12 mi
- Finger Lakes Apple Country · 14 mi
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