Yellow Barn Hill
Yellow Barn Hill rises to 560 m in New York. Virgil Mountain stands 643 m to the east, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Yellow Barn State Forest, a nature reserve 1.2 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 7.9 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34822300, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 560 m
How to reach it
- 7.9 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 12.1 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 8 mi
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Etna Community Park: 2.8 mi
- Montgomery Park: 2.8 mi
- Time Square: 2.9 mi
- Campbell Meadows: 3.2 mi
- Mill Dam Park: 3.3 mi
- Beam Hill: 2.1 mi
- Mount Pleasant: 2.2 mi
- Star Stanton Hill: 3.1 mi
- Hammond Hill: 3.2 mi
- Turkey Hill: 4.1 mi
- Yellow Barn State Forest: 1.2 mi
- Roy H. Park Nature Preserve: 2.6 mi
- Slaterville 600 - Cornell Botanic Gardens: 3.2 mi
- Genung Nature Preserve: 3.4 mi
- Durland Nature Preserve: 3.5 mi
- Incodema: 5.9 mi
- The Overlook At West Hill (housing for the elderly): 10.0 mi
- Nor’easter Mountain Coaster: 10.2 mi
- Turn here for fresh eggs farm stand: 11.2 mi
- Stick And Stone Farm and CSA: 12.0 mi
- Potter's Falls: 6.8 mi
- Triphammer Falls: 7.0 mi
- Rocky Falls: 7.3 mi
- Horseshoe Falls: 7.4 mi
- Ithaca Falls: 7.6 mi
- Tompkins Center for History & Culture: 8.1 mi
- Sciencenter: 8.3 mi
- Field School House: 9.6 mi
- Museum of the Earth: 9.8 mi
- Cayuga Nature Center: 11.5 mi
- Mill Dam Park Sign Planter: 3.3 mi
- Freeville Community Garden: 3.4 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 5.6 mi
- Muenscher Poisonous Plants Garden: 6.4 mi
- Student Centennial Garden: 6.9 mi
- Monument of Ezra Cornell: 7.3 mi
- Bob Baker BBQ Pavilion: 9.6 mi
- Birthplace of John D Rockefeller: 10.0 mi
- Peter Wheeler historic marker: 11.7 mi
- 1939 World's Fair Flagpole: 12.1 mi
- Pinnacle Rock: 9.6 mi
- Point O'Rocks: 14.5 mi
- Whitney Point Rest Area: 18.8 mi
- Preble: 20.0 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 8.4 mi
- Der deutsche Strand: 10.6 mi
- Tamarack Spring: 10.9 mi
- Cheningo Day Use Area: 22.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.8 miles of Yellow Barn Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgil Mountain | E 79° | 643 m | 10.5 mi |
| Connecticut Hill | WSW 252° | 638 m | 17.5 mi |
| Greek Peak | ENE 77° | 637 m | 10.1 mi |
| South Hill | ENE 75° | 635 m | 10.0 mi |
| Tuller Hill | ENE 68° | 616 m | 11.9 mi |
| Star Stanton Hill | ESE 115° | 612 m | 3.1 mi |
| Irish Hill | SW 230° | 599 m | 20.8 mi |
| Hammond Hill | SE 130° | 598 m | 3.2 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 | 06:53 | 18:27 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 15:50 | 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 | 21 | 22 | 30 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 68 | 66 | 60 | 48 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 2.8 | 2.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Freeville 1 NE, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 971818 — Yellow Barn Hill, Tompkins County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357598051
Day trips start here
- Ithaca · 8 mi
- Cortland · 13 mi
- Trumansburg · 17 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 20 mi
- Watkins Glen · 28 mi
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