Saugerties Lighthouse
Saugerties Lighthouse is a lighthouse in New York, at a modelled elevation of -1 m. Plateau Mountain stands 1,169 m to the west-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Ruth Reynolds Glunt Nature Preserve, a park 0.2 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.
The story
Saugerties Light, known also as the Saugerties Lighthouse, is a lighthouse on the Hudson River north of Saugerties, New York.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1869.
Wikidata Q7427213, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1869
What to expect
- Operated by
- U.S. Coast Guard
How to reach it
- 17.2 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 19 mi
- High Falls · 20 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 24 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ruth Reynolds Glunt Nature Preserve: 0.2 mi
- Tina Chorvas Park: 0.8 mi
- Seamon Park: 1.0 mi
- Seamon Park: 1.0 mi
- Saugerties Public Beach Park: 1.1 mi
- Cross Hill: 2.1 mi
- Roundtop: 2.7 mi
- Little Roundtop: 3.1 mi
- Beckwith Hill: 3.1 mi
- Mount Marion: 3.4 mi
- Turkey Point State Forest: 4.1 mi
- Great Vly Wildlife Management Area: 4.9 mi
- Catskill Forest Preserve Detatched Parcel: 5.5 mi
- Israel Wittman Sanctuary: 6.6 mi
- Seward's Island: 7.0 mi
- Cantine Dam Falls: 1.0 mi
- Glenerie Falls: 4.2 mi
- Glenerie Falls: 4.5 mi
- Glenerie Falls: 4.5 mi
- Glenerie Falls: 4.5 mi
- Butler Rockshelter: 1.8 mi
- Shell Midden: 1.9 mi
- Boarding House: 9.0 mi
- Otis Railroad Trestle: 9.8 mi
- Keegan Bell: 9.8 mi
- Kiersted House: 1.1 mi
- Center For Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art: 3.7 mi
- The Story Studio: 5.9 mi
- Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum: 7.8 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 10.0 mi
- Love is in the Air: 1.2 mi
- Pulelehua: 1.2 mi
- Stargon: 3.1 mi
- Parliament of Reality: 3.3 mi
- Wishbone: 3.7 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 1.1 mi
- West Landing: 1.9 mi
- South Landing: 1.9 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 4.7 mi
- Kingston Point Beach: 10.0 mi
- The Walled Garden: 1.1 mi
- The Upper Garden: 1.2 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 3.6 mi
- The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 3.7 mi
- Bard Community Garden: 3.8 mi
- Trap Cliff: 4.3 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 7.7 mi
- Ministers Face: 7.9 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 7.9 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 8.9 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 11.0 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 12.2 mi
- Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 15.4 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 18.4 mi
- Rail Explorers: 19.4 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 16.7 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 20.3 mi
- Bear Wallow: 21.0 mi
- Bear Wallow: 21.0 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 22.2 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 15.3 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 18.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.4 miles of Saugerties Lighthouse. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plateau Mountain | WNW 290° | 1,168.91 m | 13.3 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | WNW 290° | 1,160 m | 12.0 mi |
| Kaaterskill High Peak | NW 309° | 1,113.13 m | 9.9 mi |
| Twin Mountain | WNW 290° | 1,112.52 m | 10.9 mi |
| Twin Mountain South Summit | WNW 288° | 1,085 m | 10.5 mi |
| Indian Head Mountain | WNW 288° | 1,083 m | 10.0 mi |
| Roundtop Mountain | NW 308° | 1,056.13 m | 10.8 mi |
| Stoppel Point | NNW 327° | 1,043 m | 12.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:53 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 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 | 22 | 24 | 31 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 60 | 48 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 4.9 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 6.3 | 6.3 | 7.0 | 4.9 | 7.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Platte Clove, 10 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Tivoli, NY, 1 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 79001642OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site- National Register of Historic Places — Saugerties Lighthouse, reference 79001642, listed 05/29/79.
OpenStreetMap element way/264468493
Day trips start here
- Kinderhook · 27 mi
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