Friars Head
Friars Head rises to 39 m in New York. Bald Hill stands 88 m to the south, 6.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Sound Avenue Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.8 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 17 miles off. 38 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q34915128, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 39 m
How to reach it
- 17.0 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 26.9 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sound Avenue Nature Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center: 1.0 mi
- Baiting Hollow Tidal Wetlands Area: 2.5 mi
- Wildwood State Park: 3.7 mi
- Andrew E. Sabin Nature Preserve: 3.7 mi
- Horton Avenue Park: 2.9 mi
- Nadel Drive Park: 3.3 mi
- Two Bears Park: 3.6 mi
- Unity Park: 3.7 mi
- Stotzky Memorial Park: 4.0 mi
- World Trade Center Memorial: 3.1 mi
- Battles of Penny’s and Luce’s Landing: 5.6 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 9.1 mi
- Wardenclyffe Tower Base: 9.1 mi
- Wolf Pit Lake: 10.4 mi
- Railroad Museum of Long Island: 4.7 mi
- Suffolk County Historical Society Museum: 4.7 mi
- Brookhaven Volunteer Firefighters Museum: 8.6 mi
- Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Laboratory: 9.1 mi
- Wardenclyffe: 9.2 mi
- Bald Hill: 6.3 mi
- Jacobs Hill: 6.9 mi
- Mattituck Hills: 8.4 mi
- Rock Hill: 8.4 mi
- Flanders Hill: 9.2 mi
- F-14 Tomcat No 160902: 4.6 mi
- Shrine of Our Lady of the Island: 8.6 mi
- Nikola Tesla: 9.1 mi
- Altmans Needle & Fiber Arts: 10.1 mi
- Sweet Shoppe: 10.1 mi
- Eastport Roots Community Garden: 9.6 mi
- Rain Garden: 10.1 mi
- Longwood Community Garden: 12.9 mi
- Lillian's Garden: 21.1 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 21.6 mi
- Splish Splash: 3.4 mi
- boulder: 6.9 mi
- The Big Duck: 7.0 mi
- Exit sign: 7.4 mi
- Water Mill Windmill: 19.9 mi
- Chimney Corner: 19.1 mi
- Jumping-off Hill: 21.1 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 22.3 mi
- Ram Head: 24.5 mi
- Picnic Grove: 3.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial Picnic Area: 10.1 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 23.4 mi
- Fog Signal House: 23.3 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 23.3 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 23.3 mi
- Cascade: 21.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Friars Head. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Hill | S 172° | 88 m | 6.3 mi |
| Long Hill | N 1° | 75 m | 24.8 mi |
| Marsh Hill | NW 326° | 72 m | 24.8 mi |
| Flanders Hill | SE 136° | 70 m | 9.2 mi |
| Moose Hill | N 358° | 68 m | 23.3 mi |
| Rock Hill | SSW 192° | 64 m | 8.4 mi |
| Lidyhites Hill | NNW 348° | 63 m | 24.3 mi |
| Beacon Hill | NNW 338° | 58 m | 23.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:27 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:46 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:14 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:42 | 16:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 34 | 41 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 68 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Riverhead Rsch Farm, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 974212 — Friars Head, Suffolk County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357599219
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- Old Saybrook · 29 mi
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