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Picnic Island

Picnic Island from directly overhead

Picnic Island is a picnic site in New York, at a recorded elevation of 98 m. Black Mountain stands 805 m to the southeast, 1.4 miles off. Lakes to Locks Passage passes 5.1 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
98 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates43.62241, -73.54834

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Hazel Island: 3.0 mi
  • Sarah Island: 3.1 mi
  • Pleasure Island: 4.3 mi
  • Log Bay Island: 5.7 mi
  • Huckleberry Island: 5.8 mi
Historic sites: 38
  • Bolton Veterans' Memorial: 6.9 mi
  • Bolton Time Capsule: 7.0 mi
  • Lafayette's Tour: 8.7 mi
  • Old Champlain Canal Lock 19: 13.2 mi
  • The Stand Against Burgoyne: 14.3 mi
Nature reserves: 34
Cliffs: 28
  • Deer Leap: 2.4 mi
  • Uncas Cliff: 4.6 mi
  • Ark Wall: 4.8 mi
  • Eagle Cliff: 8.4 mi
  • New Buck: 8.9 mi
Attractions: 20
  • Leonelli's Playland Arcade: 16.0 mi
  • Lake George Steamboat Company: 16.1 mi
  • Doctor Morbid's Haunted House: 16.1 mi
  • Star Trek Original Series Set Tours: 16.8 mi
  • Revolution Rail Co. - Thurman Station: 16.8 mi
Museums: 19
Picnic sites: 11
  • West Dollar Is Day Use Area: 2.3 mi
  • West Dollar Island: 2.3 mi
  • Fishbrook Pond Picnic Site: 3.4 mi
  • Alma Farm Park: 3.4 mi
  • Little As You Were Island: 3.7 mi
Beaches: 9
  • Hague Town Beach: 8.8 mi
  • Black Point Public Beach: 13.6 mi
  • Lake Hadlock Beach: 14.5 mi
  • Morey Stein Beach: 15.0 mi
  • Park beach: 18.1 mi
Waterfalls: 7
Gardens: 6
  • Community Garden: 8.2 mi
  • Colonial Revival King's Garden: 17.2 mi
  • Colonial Revival King's Garden: 17.3 mi
  • Schroon Community Garden: 18.2 mi
  • Arboretum: 19.3 mi
Artworks: 2
  • Chiseled Slate monoliths: 17.3 mi
  • Mandala II: 18.4 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Vermont Welcome Center: 13.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Picnic Island. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Black MountainSE 142°805 m1.4 mi
Erebus MountainS 183°765 m3.2 mi
Sleeping BeautyS 181°715 m4.4 mi
Buck MountainSSW 199°711 m7.4 mi
Catamount MountainN 353°702 m4.6 mi
Fivemile MountainNW 309°688 m1.9 mi
Huckleberry MountainNW 319°680 m2.0 mi
Pilot KnobSSW 198°658 m9.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2919:07
June solstice05:1419:5620:40
September equinox06:4218:1618:54
December solstice07:2515:3416:21

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F212333475968727163513928
Precip in3.02.63.03.33.34.44.44.53.64.13.03.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Whitehall, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/189038926

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