Nature reserve · New York

Maplecrest Road Unit

Maplecrest Road Unit from directly overhead

Maplecrest Road Unit is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 522 m. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the south-southwest, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Van Loan Hill, a peak 0.9 miles away.

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

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Coordinates42.28226, -74.20106

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks

Van Loan Hill: 0.9 mi
Round Hill: 1.0 mi
Caudal: 2.2 mi
Cave Mountain: 2.3 mi
Camel's Hump: 2.7 mi

Nature reserves

Parks

C.D. Lane Park: 1.6 mi
Mountain Top Arboretum: 5.6 mi
Ashland Park: 7.2 mi
Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 7.2 mi
Irish Cultural Center: 8.3 mi

Waterfalls57

East Kill Falls: 6.7 mi
Diamond Notch Falls: 8.0 mi
Delmura Falls: 8.7 mi
Winter Clove falls: 8.7 mi
Venus Bath: 8.9 mi

Historic sites42

Donald Sutton Memorial Plaque: 5.0 mi
Susquehanna Turnpike: 8.2 mi
New York State Forest Preserve Centennial: 8.8 mi
Layman's Monument: 9.4 mi
Post WWII Memorial: 9.5 mi

Museums20

Piano Performance Museum: 4.9 mi
Mountain Top Historical Society: 8.2 mi
Durham Center Museum: 8.3 mi
Pratt Museum: 12.0 mi
Zadock Pratt Museum: 12.0 mi

Artworks16

Rip Van Winkle: 5.9 mi
Shandaken Eagle: 15.1 mi
The Great Knot: 16.9 mi
Winnisook: 17.6 mi
Opus 40: 18.1 mi

Cliffs15

Devils Tombstone: 8.8 mi
Hurricane Ledge: 10.4 mi
Pratt Rocks: 11.0 mi
Devils Kitchen: 12.0 mi
Hawks Rocks: 13.0 mi

Gardens9

Veterans Garden: 17.7 mi
The Upper Garden: 19.8 mi
The Walled Garden: 19.8 mi
Blithewood Garden: 23.2 mi
The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 23.4 mi

Beaches7

Lake Myosotis Swimming Area: 16.7 mi
Belleayre Beach: 17.6 mi
Saugerties Beach: 19.4 mi
West Landing: 21.6 mi
South Landing: 21.6 mi

Attractions5

The Old Game Farm: 10.3 mi
Pratt Rock: 11.5 mi
Rail Explorers: 15.0 mi
World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 16.7 mi
Old Blenheim Covered Bridge: 17.9 mi

Springs4

Elm Ridge piped spring: 2.1 mi
Devil's Acre spring: 8.2 mi
Bathtub Spring: 22.9 mi
Table Mountain Spring: 24.6 mi

Picnic sites2

Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 5.4 mi
Notch Lake Picnic Area: 8.5 mi

Lighthouses1

Saugerties Lighthouse: 20.1 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.5 miles of Maplecrest Road Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Hunter Mountain	SSW 192°	1,228.34 m	7.4 mi
Black Dome	ESE 102°	1,217.37 m	4.1 mi
Thomas Cole Mountain	ESE 104°	1,204.87 m	3.4 mi
Blackhead	ESE 101°	1,200.91 m	5.0 mi
West Kill Mountain	SSW 210°	1,186 m	9.1 mi
Plateau Mountain	S 172°	1,168.91 m	10.1 mi
Sugarloaf Mountain	SSE 166°	1,160 m	10.8 mi
Southwest Hunter Mountain	SSW 195°	1,140 m	8.6 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, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element way/424230670

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