Lincoln Park, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Lincoln Park, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Lincoln Park lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Lincoln Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lincoln Park — the short answer
Lincoln Park, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 194 days between hard freezes, across 979 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~194
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 979 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 6a is Lincoln Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lincoln Park's 194-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lincoln Park
Each reading below is measured for Lincoln Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLincoln Park runs about 194 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredLincoln Park sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Lincoln Park is in
Lincoln Park sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lincoln Park's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Ulster County is mostly Northeastern Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Lincoln Park
Every plant below cleared Lincoln Park's own zone 6a and its 194-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lincoln Park?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Lincoln Park
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Lincoln Park, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lincoln Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lincoln Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CHAMBERS SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- ULSTER AVENUE SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DIST BLDGS &GRDSBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- BUDGET RENT A-CARUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SUNSET GARDENS APTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SPEEDWAY # 7630Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SPEEDWAY 7630Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- UHAUL 797050Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MONRO MUFFLER/BRAKE #23Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CHGE LINCOLN PARK SUBSTATIONBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- VALVOLINE INSTANT OIL CHANGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- STEWART'S SHOPS #358Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lincoln Park's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Lincoln Park.
Total Sites
629
within ~10 miles of Lincoln Park
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lincoln Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lincoln Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lincoln Park, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lincoln Park — PFAS (7 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (425 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Lincoln Park
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lincoln Park average
Your land is one point inside Lincoln Park
Everything above resolves to Lincoln Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 979 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Lincoln Park Average
Lincoln Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Lincoln Park
- ●One soil character for all of Lincoln Park
- ●Frost dates read at Lincoln Park's scale: Apr 14 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lincoln Park's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lincoln Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lincoln Park, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lincoln Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lincoln Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lincoln Park average
How we know this about Lincoln Park
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Lincoln Park’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Lincoln Park
When does frost risk typically end in Lincoln Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lincoln Park typically lands around Apr 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 5.
When is the first frost in Lincoln Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lincoln Park typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 194 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lincoln Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lincoln Park sees about 194 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 11, about 159 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lincoln Park?
The federal record around Lincoln Park is a meaningful one — 629 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (425), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lincoln Park?
From about Sep 25 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lincoln Park's scale — its 6a band and its 194-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lincoln Park's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Lincoln Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lincoln Park's own scale — its own ~194-day season between 28°F freezes, the 979 acres it covers and 629 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lincoln Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lincoln Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Oct 25 and the ~194-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 629 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lincoln Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lincoln Park's boundary and the 979 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~194-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lincoln Park sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lincoln Parklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lincoln Park's 979 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ulster County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ulster County
- The growing challenges every New York grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New York
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Ulster County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lincoln Park's 979 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lincoln Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 979 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Lincoln Park-wide figureread your own land →