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Ashokan Brook Unit

Ashokan Brook Unit from directly overhead

Ashokan Brook Unit is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 209 m. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the west, 10.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Peck Road Unit, a nature reserve 1.2 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 9.8 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Water Supply

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates41.97905, -74.19363

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Grant Avery Park: 2.0 mi
  • Brown's Station: 2.2 mi
  • Tongore Park: 3.7 mi
  • Lester S. Davis Park: 4.5 mi
  • Rick Volz Field: 4.6 mi
Historic sites
Waterfalls
  • Winchell's Falls: 3.6 mi
  • Coward's Falls: 7.2 mi
  • Metacahonts Falls: 8.4 mi
  • Cornell Falls: 8.9 mi
  • High Falls Waterfall: 10.8 mi
Cliffs: 41
Artworks: 24
Beaches: 19
  • Tongore Park Beach: 7.7 mi
  • Kingston Point Beach: 12.2 mi
  • Ulster Landing Beach: 12.9 mi
  • Saugerties Beach: 13.9 mi
  • West Landing: 14.4 mi
Gardens: 18
  • Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 10.0 mi
  • Rondout Community Garden: 11.4 mi
  • Formal Gardens: 14.3 mi
  • Rough Garden: 14.3 mi
  • Ellipse: 14.3 mi
Attractions: 11
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 6.8 mi
  • Rail Explorers: 9.1 mi
  • Pompey’s Cave: 11.6 mi
  • Hudson River Cruises: 11.7 mi
  • Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 14.4 mi
Springs: 8
  • Bear Wallow: 6.1 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 6.1 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 7.3 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 11.1 mi
  • Devil's Acre spring: 13.0 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Lighthouses: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.7 miles of Ashokan Brook Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Slide MountainW 278°1,266 m10.0 mi
Cornell MountainW 280°1,174 m8.5 mi
Peekamoose MountainW 260°1,164.03 m10.7 mi
Wittenberg MountainWNW 284°1,152.75 m8.1 mi
Lone MountainW 266°1,127.76 m10.1 mi
Friday MountainW 274°1,125 m8.7 mi
DinkW 278°1,115.26 m8.8 mi
Twin MountainNNE 18°1,112.52 m10.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3219:09
June solstice05:2219:5420:36
September equinox06:4518:1918:56
December solstice07:2215:4416:29

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F202229415360656457463626
Precip in4.73.25.14.95.06.05.25.66.26.45.45.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 12 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/802324598

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