Spencers Ledge
Spencers Ledge is a cliff in New York, at a modelled elevation of 807 m. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the north, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Samson Mountain, a peak 1.4 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 10 miles off.
How to reach it
- 10.1 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Panther Rock · 13 mi
- High Falls · 14 mi
- Compass Rock · 14 mi
- Beacon Hill · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Samson Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Breath Hill: 1.8 mi
- Big Rosy Bone Knob: 1.9 mi
- Pople Hill: 2.0 mi
- Breath Hill: 2.0 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 2.1 mi
- Vernooy Kill Falls: 2.9 mi
- Metacahonts Falls: 5.1 mi
- Cornell Falls: 6.8 mi
- Otter Falls: 8.4 mi
- Watson Hollow Unit: 4.4 mi
- Future DEC: 4.7 mi
- Rochester Unit: 5.2 mi
- Future DEC: 5.5 mi
- Ulster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 5.6 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 6.2 mi
- Tongore Park: 8.5 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 8.5 mi
- Brown's Station: 9.1 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 9.5 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 5.9 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 5.9 mi
- ruins: 7.3 mi
- Yale Quarry: 7.3 mi
- Forstmann Castle: 8.2 mi
- Cornell Crack: 6.1 mi
- Samuels Point: 6.6 mi
- Giant Ledge: 8.7 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 13.6 mi
- Gnome Mountain: 14.3 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 7.3 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 12.0 mi
- Napanoch Station: 12.1 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 13.2 mi
- Borscht Belt Museum: 13.7 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 12.4 mi
- Scuba Diving Access Area: 14.7 mi
- Lake Minnewaska Beach: 14.7 mi
- Lake Awosting Beach: 15.2 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 15.5 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 8.0 mi
- Gnome Chomsky: 10.5 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 11.9 mi
- Winnisook: 13.5 mi
- Large Hybrid, 1971: 19.3 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 15.8 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 18.7 mi
- Buddah Garden: 19.2 mi
- SUNY New Paltz Student Garden: 19.4 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 20.1 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 10.4 mi
- Rail Explorers: 12.0 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 12.8 mi
- Overturned 1938 Truck: 13.2 mi
- Swimming Hole: 14.9 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 3.2 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 3.7 mi
- Bear Wallow: 4.5 mi
- Bear Wallow: 4.6 mi
- Piped Spring: 6.2 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 19.1 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 21.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.2 miles of Spencers Ledge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | N 355° | 1,266 m | 5.9 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain | NW 315° | 1,180 m | 11.1 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain - South Peak | NW 314° | 1,175 m | 10.8 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | N 9° | 1,174 m | 6.1 mi |
| Table Mountain | NNW 334° | 1,165.86 m | 3.4 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | NNW 336° | 1,164.03 m | 2.9 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | NNE 13° | 1,152.75 m | 6.6 mi |
| Panther Mountain | N 354° | 1,135.08 m | 9.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:45 | 16:30 |
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 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/890287895
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