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Bowes Hill

Bowes Hill, seen from above at true elevation

Bowes Hill rises to 153 m in New York. Johnson Hill stands 538 m to the south-southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Red School site, a attraction 0.5 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 15 miles off.

About

The story

mountain in United States of America

Wikidata Q34805992, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
153 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates43.06145, -77.21109

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Attractions
  • Red School site: 0.5 mi
  • Vienna Road: 0.6 mi
  • Home site of the Joseph Smith Sr Family: 0.7 mi
  • Read Admiral Willliam T. Sampson's: 0.7 mi
  • EB Grandin Bookstore: 1.0 mi
Parks
  • Prospect Park: 0.7 mi
  • Union Club Park: 1.1 mi
  • Swift's Landing Park: 1.3 mi
  • Pal-Mac Aqueduct Park: 1.8 mi
  • Widewaters Canal Park: 4.1 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Elmer: 9.5 mi
  • American Eagle: 13.8 mi
  • FLTG Golfball: 13.8 mi
  • Rebecca Well: 13.9 mi
  • Faith Hope and Charity: 13.9 mi
Museums: 40
  • Palmyra Historical Museum: 1.0 mi
  • Erie Canal Depot: 1.0 mi
  • Phelps General Store and Residence: 1.0 mi
  • Print Shop Museum: 1.0 mi
  • Alling Coverlet Museum: 1.0 mi
Gardens: 33
  • Hope Garden: 11.7 mi
  • North Entrance/Exit Area (Exit lane Side Bed): 12.9 mi
  • South Entrance/Exit Lane Bed (Entrance Lane Side): 12.9 mi
  • Inner Parking Lot Bed (Lane #1): 13.0 mi
  • North Entrance/Exit Lane Employee Parking Side Turf Area: 13.0 mi
Nature reserves: 24
Waterfalls: 11
  • Postcard Falls: 16.2 mi
  • Densmore Falls: 19.2 mi
  • Upper Falls: 20.0 mi
  • Honeoye Falls: 20.7 mi
  • Upper Falls: 21.0 mi
Beaches: 6
  • Kershaw Park Small Marine Craft Launch Area: 13.2 mi
  • Kershaw Beach: 13.2 mi
  • Crescent Beach: 19.5 mi
  • Bristol Harbour Beach: 22.7 mi
  • Windsor Beach: 23.5 mi
Cliffs: 2
Lighthouses: 2
Springs: 1
  • Klippel Spring: 13.1 mi
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.0 miles of Bowes Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Johnson HillSSW 202°538 m21.3 mi
Bare HillSSW 193°470 m23.0 mi
Oak MountainSW 222°358 m16.2 mi
Baptist HillSW 216°356 m18.6 mi
Harkness HillS 184°356 m20.4 mi
Hopper HillsWSW 240°335 m15.9 mi
Lazarus HillS 180°323 m21.0 mi
Allens HillSW 225°317 m22.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4419:21
June solstice05:3020:0920:52
September equinox06:5718:3119:08
December solstice07:3815:5116:38

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F232533445665696861503929
Precip in3.02.52.73.23.43.53.63.83.44.33.43.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sodus 1W, 14 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 969909 — Bowes Hill, Wayne County, New York.

OpenStreetMap element node/357595903

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