Nature reserve · New York

Brooksburg Unit

Brooksburg Unit from directly overhead

Brooksburg Unit is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 488 m. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the south, 8.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Maplecrest Road Unit, a nature reserve 1.5 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

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

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Getting there

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Coordinates42.30083, -74.21736

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Peaks

Cave Mountain: 1.8 mi
Round Hill: 2.1 mi
Van Loan Hill: 2.4 mi
Ginseng Mountain: 3.0 mi
Mount Zoar: 3.3 mi

Parks

C.D. Lane Park: 2.6 mi
Ashland Park: 6.2 mi
Mountain Top Arboretum: 7.1 mi
Irish Cultural Center: 8.1 mi
Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 8.7 mi

Waterfalls55

East Kill Falls: 8.1 mi
Red Falls: 8.8 mi
Diamond Notch Falls: 8.9 mi
Winter Clove falls: 10.1 mi
Venus Bath: 10.1 mi

Historic sites40

Donald Sutton Memorial Plaque: 3.7 mi
Susquehanna Turnpike: 7.1 mi
Post WWII Memorial: 9.2 mi
New York State Forest Preserve Centennial: 10.1 mi
Layman's Monument: 10.9 mi

Museums21

Piano Performance Museum: 6.1 mi
Durham Center Museum: 7.6 mi
Mountain Top Historical Society: 9.7 mi
Pratt Museum: 11.0 mi
Zadock Pratt Museum: 11.0 mi

Artworks15

Rip Van Winkle: 7.0 mi
Shandaken Eagle: 16.0 mi
Winnisook: 17.9 mi
The Great Knot: 18.4 mi
Opus 40: 19.7 mi

Cliffs14

Pratt Rocks: 10.0 mi
Devils Tombstone: 10.1 mi
Hurricane Ledge: 11.9 mi
Devils Kitchen: 13.5 mi
Hawks Rocks: 14.5 mi

Beaches7

Lake Myosotis Swimming Area: 15.6 mi
Belleayre Beach: 17.8 mi
Saugerties Beach: 20.9 mi
Oakdale Beach: 22.7 mi
West Landing: 23.1 mi

Attractions5

Pratt Rock: 10.5 mi
The Old Game Farm: 11.5 mi
Rail Explorers: 15.9 mi
Old Blenheim Covered Bridge: 16.4 mi
World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 17.7 mi

Gardens5

Veterans Garden: 17.0 mi
The Upper Garden: 21.3 mi
The Walled Garden: 21.3 mi
Blithewood Garden: 24.7 mi
The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 24.9 mi

Springs3

Elm Ridge piped spring: 2.3 mi
Devil's Acre spring: 9.4 mi
Bathtub Spring: 22.3 mi

Picnic sites2

Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 6.3 mi
Notch Lake Picnic Area: 9.8 mi

Lighthouses1

Saugerties Lighthouse: 21.6 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Brooksburg Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Hunter Mountain	S 184°	1,228.34 m	8.5 mi
Black Dome	ESE 114°	1,217.37 m	5.3 mi
Thomas Cole Mountain	ESE 117°	1,204.87 m	4.7 mi
Blackhead	ESE 112°	1,200.91 m	6.2 mi
West Kill Mountain	SSW 202°	1,186 m	9.9 mi
Plateau Mountain	S 169°	1,168.91 m	11.5 mi
Southwest Hunter Mountain	S 188°	1,140 m	9.7 mi
Rusk Mountain	SSW 204°	1,123.493 m	7.5 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:01	18:32	19:09
June solstice	05:21	19:55	20:38
September equinox	06:45	18:19	18:56
December solstice	07:23	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	21	22	29	41	53	61	65	64	57	46	36	27
Precip in	4.4	3.1	4.8	4.8	4.0	4.6	4.6	5.1	5.3	6.0	4.8	4.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Jewett, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element way/424230666

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