Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle is an artwork in New York, at a modelled elevation of 973 m. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the south, 1.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Colonels Chair, a peak 0.1 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 25 miles off.
What the record says
- Material
- stone
How to reach it
- 25.1 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 26 mi
- White Dot · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Colonels Chair: 0.1 mi
- Hunter Mountain: 1.5 mi
- East Rusk: 1.5 mi
- Rusk Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Southwest Hunter Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Railroad Bend Unit: 2.0 mi
- Diamond Notch Primitive Bicycle Corridor: 2.8 mi
- Stony Clove Unit: 3.9 mi
- Diamond Notch Unit: 4.2 mi
- Platte Clove Road Unit: 4.9 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 5.0 mi
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 5.3 mi
- C.D. Lane Park: 6.8 mi
- Parish Field: 8.9 mi
- Ashland Park: 9.0 mi
- Diamond Notch Falls: 2.2 mi
- Delmura Falls: 7.6 mi
- Santa Cruz Falls: 7.7 mi
- East Kill Falls: 7.8 mi
- Bastion Falls: 8.2 mi
- New York State Forest Preserve Centennial: 3.3 mi
- Tory Fort: 7.6 mi
- Post WWII Memorial: 8.2 mi
- Layman's Monument: 8.4 mi
- Boarding House: 8.8 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 1.1 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 7.1 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 9.1 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 12.4 mi
- Zadock Pratt Museum: 13.0 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 3.3 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 8.2 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 8.9 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 9.9 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 10.1 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 9.3 mi
- Winnisook: 12.8 mi
- The Great Knot: 13.2 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 14.2 mi
- Opus 40: 14.4 mi
- The Upper Garden: 17.8 mi
- The Walled Garden: 17.8 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 20.3 mi
- Rough Garden: 20.5 mi
- Ellipse: 20.6 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 13.4 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 16.8 mi
- West Landing: 18.9 mi
- South Landing: 18.9 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 19.9 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 2.3 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 7.9 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 18.8 mi
- Bear Wallow: 19.1 mi
- Bear Wallow: 19.2 mi
- Rail Explorers: 9.1 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 10.8 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 11.7 mi
- Pratt Rock: 12.4 mi
- Old Blenheim Covered Bridge: 21.7 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 0.9 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 3.1 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 17.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Rip Van Winkle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | S 178° | 1,228.34 m | 1.5 mi |
| Black Dome | NE 49° | 1,217.37 m | 7.4 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | NE 45° | 1,204.87 m | 6.9 mi |
| Blackhead | NE 54° | 1,200.91 m | 8.0 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | SW 234° | 1,186 m | 3.7 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | SE 146° | 1,168.91 m | 5.2 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | SE 139° | 1,160 m | 6.3 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | SSW 194° | 1,140 m | 2.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:43 | 16:28 |
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 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 61 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 27 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 3.1 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 6.0 | 4.8 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Jewett, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/11256315236
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