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Black Road Unit

Black Road Unit from directly overhead

Black Road Unit is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 224 m. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the west, 8.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Peck Road Unit, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 10 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

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

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.97855, -74.21969

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Grant Avery Park: 0.7 mi
  • Brown's Station: 2.3 mi
  • Lester S. Davis Park: 3.1 mi
  • Tongore Park: 3.6 mi
  • Catskills Visitor Center: 4.2 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
Waterfalls
  • Winchell's Falls: 3.7 mi
  • Cornell Falls: 7.6 mi
  • Metacahonts Falls: 7.6 mi
  • Coward's Falls: 8.5 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 10.6 mi
Cliffs: 42
Museums: 32
Artworks: 24
Beaches: 19
  • Tongore Park Beach: 8.3 mi
  • Kingston Point Beach: 13.5 mi
  • Ulster Landing Beach: 14.3 mi
  • Saugerties Beach: 15.2 mi
  • West Landing: 15.7 mi
Gardens: 18
  • Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 11.2 mi
  • Rondout Community Garden: 12.7 mi
  • Formal Gardens: 15.6 mi
  • Rough Garden: 15.6 mi
  • Ellipse: 15.6 mi
Attractions: 11
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 6.0 mi
  • Rail Explorers: 8.4 mi
  • Pompey’s Cave: 11.8 mi
  • Hudson River Cruises: 12.9 mi
  • Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 15.4 mi
Springs: 9
  • Bear Wallow: 5.1 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 5.1 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 6.2 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 9.8 mi
  • Devil's Acre spring: 12.9 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Lighthouses: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.5 miles of Black Road Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Slide MountainW 280°1,266 m8.7 mi
Cornell MountainWNW 283°1,174 m7.2 mi
Table MountainW 262°1,165.86 m9.6 mi
Peekamoose MountainW 259°1,164.03 m9.3 mi
Wittenberg MountainWNW 287°1,152.75 m6.9 mi
Panther MountainWNW 301°1,135.08 m10.5 mi
Lone MountainW 266°1,127.76 m8.8 mi
Friday MountainW 275°1,125 m7.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3219:09
June solstice05:2219:5420:37
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, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/424229399

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