Turkey Hill
Turkey Hill rises to 445 m in New York. Virgil Mountain stands 643 m to the east-northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Ellis Hollow Park, a nature reserve 1.2 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 4.1 miles off.
The story
mountain in Tompkins County, New York, United States
Wikidata Q34814725, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 445 m
How to reach it
- 4.1 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 13.5 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 5 mi
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- F.R. Newman Arboretum: 1.8 mi
- Campbell Meadows: 2.1 mi
- Hungerford Heights Park: 2.2 mi
- Salem Park: 2.3 mi
- Eastern Heights Park: 2.4 mi
- Mount Pleasant: 2.0 mi
- Hungerford Hill: 2.0 mi
- Snyder Hill: 2.3 mi
- Comstock Knoll: 2.6 mi
- Yellow Barn Hill: 4.1 mi
- Ellis Hollow Park: 1.2 mi
- Conwell Tract: 1.3 mi
- Reynolds Game Farm: 1.4 mi
- Dewey Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Durland Nature Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Potter's Falls: 3.0 mi
- Triphammer Falls: 3.0 mi
- Rocky Falls: 3.2 mi
- Horseshoe Falls: 3.3 mi
- Ithaca Falls: 3.6 mi
- Incodema: 3.2 mi
- The Overlook At West Hill (housing for the elderly): 6.1 mi
- Turn here for fresh eggs farm stand: 7.4 mi
- Stick And Stone Farm and CSA: 8.3 mi
- Rt 96 Self Storage: 8.9 mi
- Tompkins Center for History & Culture: 3.9 mi
- Sciencenter: 4.2 mi
- Museum of the Earth: 6.0 mi
- Field School House: 7.4 mi
- Cayuga Nature Center: 8.4 mi
- Muenscher Poisonous Plants Garden: 2.3 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 2.6 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 2.6 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 2.6 mi
- Student Centennial Garden: 2.8 mi
- Andrew Dickson White Statue: 3.2 mi
- Monument of Ezra Cornell: 3.3 mi
- Bob Baker BBQ Pavilion: 7.4 mi
- Peter Wheeler historic marker: 9.3 mi
- Birthplace of John D Rockefeller: 13.4 mi
- Pinnacle Rock: 5.5 mi
- Point O'Rocks: 11.9 mi
- Glen Cathedral: 24.0 mi
- Whitney Point Rest Area: 22.3 mi
- Preble: 23.1 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 4.3 mi
- Der deutsche Strand: 6.5 mi
- Tamarack Spring: 9.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.4 miles of Turkey Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgil Mountain | ENE 78° | 643 m | 14.7 mi |
| Connecticut Hill | WSW 251° | 638 m | 13.4 mi |
| Greek Peak | ENE 77° | 637 m | 14.2 mi |
| South Hill | ENE 75° | 635 m | 14.1 mi |
| Tuller Hill | ENE 70° | 616 m | 16.0 mi |
| Star Stanton Hill | E 92° | 612 m | 6.8 mi |
| Irish Hill | SW 225° | 599 m | 17.1 mi |
| Hammond Hill | E 99° | 598 m | 6.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:41 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:29 | 20:04 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 15:51 | 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 | 23 | 24 | 31 | 44 | 56 | 65 | 69 | 67 | 60 | 49 | 39 | 29 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ithaca Cornell Univ, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 967963 — Turkey Hill, Tompkins County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357593596
Day trips start here
- Ithaca · 4 mi
- Trumansburg · 14 mi
- Cortland · 16 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 18 mi
- Watkins Glen · 23 mi
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