Buck Hill
Buck Hill rises to 594 m in New York. Connecticut Hill stands 638 m to the south-southeast, 1.1 miles off. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 8.9 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Tompkins County, New York, United States of America.
Wikidata Q34806522, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 594 m
How to reach it
- 8.9 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 18.4 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 10 mi
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 10 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Connecticut Hill: 1.1 mi
- Rowell Hill: 3.0 mi
- VanLone Hill: 4.1 mi
- Rogers Hill: 4.2 mi
- Doll Hill: 4.4 mi
- Connecticut Hill State Game Management Area: 3.6 mi
- Newfield Community Park: 5.2 mi
- Negundo Woods: 8.1 mi
- Jacksonville Community Park: 8.2 mi
- McDaniels Park: 8.4 mi
- Stevenson Forest Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Bock-Harvey Forest Preserve: 2.9 mi
- Martin Nature Preserve: 4.9 mi
- Texas Hollow State Forest: 5.2 mi
- Buttermilk Falls State Park: 8.3 mi
- Lucifer Falls: 4.9 mi
- Lower Falls: 6.1 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 8.2 mi
- Deckertown Falls: 8.6 mi
- Shequaga Falls: 9.5 mi
- Rt 96 Self Storage: 7.8 mi
- Stick And Stone Farm and CSA: 8.0 mi
- Hunt's Christmas Tree Farm In The Finger Lakes: 8.1 mi
- Turn here for fresh eggs farm stand: 8.2 mi
- Tree Service: 8.4 mi
- Museum of the Earth: 8.7 mi
- Schuyler County Historical Society: 9.2 mi
- Ulysses Historical Society: 9.5 mi
- Sciencenter: 9.6 mi
- Tompkins Center for History & Culture: 9.7 mi
- Monument of Ezra Cornell: 10.5 mi
- Peter Wheeler historic marker: 12.9 mi
- Bob Baker BBQ Pavilion: 13.1 mi
- Soaring Capital of America: 20.1 mi
- Shohola Monument: 21.4 mi
- Ithaca Children's Garden: 9.0 mi
- Alpha Phi Alpha memorial garden: 10.5 mi
- Farrand Garden: 10.7 mi
- Rockwell Azalea Garden: 10.7 mi
- Minn's Garden: 10.8 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 9.4 mi
- Olivia Langdon: 22.0 mi
- Mark Twain: 22.0 mi
- Thomas K. Beecher Statue: 22.5 mi
- Labrador Duck: 22.5 mi
- Pinnacle Rock: 8.4 mi
- Glen Cathedral: 10.4 mi
- Point O'Rocks: 12.6 mi
- Castle Point: 17.2 mi
- Der deutsche Strand: 7.3 mi
- Tamarack Spring: 14.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.5 miles of Buck Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Hill | SSE 150° | 638 m | 1.1 mi |
| Irish Hill | S 172° | 599 m | 8.9 mi |
| Doll Hill | SSE 156° | 596 m | 4.4 mi |
| Rogers Hill | WSW 254° | 586 m | 4.2 mi |
| Seely Hill | SE 136° | 582 m | 9.9 mi |
| Martin Hill | SW 228° | 579 m | 17.2 mi |
| Huey Hill | W 271° | 576 m | 16.5 mi |
| Barnes Hill | SSE 150° | 571 m | 9.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:42 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:31 | 20:05 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 15:52 | 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 | 22 | 24 | 30 | 43 | 55 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 60 | 48 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mecklenburg 4SW, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357599105
Day trips start here
- Ithaca · 10 mi
- Trumansburg · 10 mi
- Watkins Glen · 10 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 17 mi
- Southern Tier · 28 mi
- Cortland · 29 mi
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