Common Ground Garden
Common Ground Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 486 m. Moose Mountain stands 1,180 m to the east, 6.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Pisgah, a peak 0.7 miles away. Olympic Trail passes 1.3 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Permitted
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 4.8 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 9.1 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 25.7 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Pisgah: 0.7 mi
- Baker Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Dewey Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Brewster Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Little McKenzie Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 8.8 mi
- Moss Cliff: 11.0 mi
- Weeping Winds: 14.7 mi
- Wallface: 15.1 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 16.2 mi
- Wanika Falls: 10.9 mi
- Monument Falls: 11.4 mi
- High Falls (Main): 13.1 mi
- High Falls (Mini): 13.2 mi
- High Falls (Rainbow): 13.2 mi
- Town of Harrietstown Bike Park: 0.8 mi
- Ampersand Park: 0.8 mi
- William Morris Park: 1.1 mi
- Ward Plumadore Park: 1.1 mi
- Denny Park: 1.2 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 3.5 mi
- Saint Regis Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area: 10.3 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 10.4 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 10.6 mi
- Skyride: 10.7 mi
- Kate Smith Memorial: 8.7 mi
- World War Memorial: 8.8 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 9.6 mi
- 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron: 10.4 mi
- John Brown Memorial Statue: 10.5 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 9.4 mi
- Henry's Woods: 9.5 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 10.0 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 12.5 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 16.7 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 1.2 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 1.3 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 8.8 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 8.8 mi
- Six Nations Indian Museum: 10.6 mi
- Peace Garden: 8.3 mi
- Goolds Garden: 8.4 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 17.8 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 8.9 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 12.2 mi
- Tahawus: 20.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.8 miles of Common Ground Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moose Mountain | E 86° | 1,180 m | 6.8 mi |
| McKenzie Mountain | E 96° | 1,165 m | 5.4 mi |
| Sawtooth #2 | S 180° | 1,164 m | 10.4 mi |
| Sawtooth #4 | S 186° | 1,041 m | 10.0 mi |
| Ampersand Mountain | SSW 202° | 1,022 m | 8.2 mi |
| Mount Alton | ENE 78° | 974 m | 8.8 mi |
| Mount Tamarac | ESE 101° | 945 m | 6.1 mi |
| Scarface Mountain | SSE 149° | 931 m | 6.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:31 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:13 | 20:00 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:33 | 16:21 |
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 | 14 | 15 | 24 | 38 | 50 | 59 | 64 | 62 | 55 | 44 | 33 | 21 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RAY Brook, 4 mi away.
- Monarch97 obs
- Mallard62 obs
- White-tailed Deer61 obs
- Ring-billed Gull47 obs
- American Robin47 obs
- Red-spotted Admiral43 obs
- Common Loon39 obs
- Song Sparrow38 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/1049198248
Day trips start here
- Elizabethtown · 29 mi
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