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Mount Guardian Preserve

Mount Guardian Preserve from directly overhead

Mount Guardian Preserve is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 404 m. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the northwest, 9.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Guardian, a peak 0.4 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Woodstock Land Conservancy
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.06392, -74.12732

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Andy Lee Field: 1.4 mi
  • Woodstock Waterfall Park: 1.7 mi
  • The Comeau Property: 1.8 mi
  • Rick Volz Field: 2.2 mi
  • Bearsville Park: 2.2 mi
Nature reserves
Waterfalls: 60
Historic sites: 53
Museums: 36
Cliffs: 33
  • Ministers Face: 2.6 mi
  • Snake Rocks Cliff: 3.1 mi
  • The "Great" Cliffs: 4.9 mi
  • Devils Kitchen: 5.2 mi
  • Hawks Rocks: 5.4 mi
Artworks: 22
Beaches: 20
  • Saugerties Beach: 9.0 mi
  • Ulster Landing Beach: 10.2 mi
  • West Landing: 10.3 mi
  • South Landing: 10.3 mi
  • Kingston Point Beach: 12.5 mi
Gardens: 18
  • The Walled Garden: 10.8 mi
  • The Upper Garden: 10.9 mi
  • Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 11.0 mi
  • Blithewood Garden: 11.2 mi
  • Rough Garden: 11.2 mi
Attractions: 11
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 8.3 mi
  • Rail Explorers: 9.3 mi
  • Hudson River Cruises: 12.5 mi
  • The Old Game Farm: 13.5 mi
  • Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 16.7 mi
Springs: 8
  • Devil's Acre spring: 8.8 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 12.6 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 12.7 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 13.7 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 16.1 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Lighthouses: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.0 miles of Mount Guardian Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Hunter MountainNW 326°1,228.34 m9.5 mi
West Kill MountainNW 311°1,186 m11.0 mi
Plateau MountainNNW 335°1,168.91 m5.6 mi
Sugarloaf MountainNNW 346°1,160 m4.8 mi
Wittenberg MountainWSW 251°1,152.75 m11.9 mi
Southwest Hunter MountainNW 319°1,140 m9.0 mi
Kaaterskill High PeakNNE 20°1,113.13 m7.2 mi
Twin MountainN 359°1,112.52 m4.3 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 solstice07:2215:4316:29

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222431435463686660483828
Precip in4.94.05.75.24.86.05.56.36.37.04.97.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Platte Clove, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1263776385

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