Mount Pleasant Unit
Mount Pleasant Unit is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 217 m. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the southwest, 6.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area, a historic site 0.2 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Water Supply
How to reach it
- 16.5 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 18 mi
- White Dot · 19 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 21 mi
- Copes Lookout · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Romer Mountain Unit: 1.0 mi
- Mount Tremper Unit: 1.4 mi
- Woodland Valley Unit: 1.9 mi
- Simpson Ski Slope: 2.5 mi
- Sheridan Mountain Unit: 3.2 mi
- Romer Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Tremper Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Mount Pleasant: 1.7 mi
- Hoyt Hollow: 2.7 mi
- Cross Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Parish Field: 2.2 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 2.2 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 2.3 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 6.1 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 6.5 mi
- Cornell Falls: 4.6 mi
- Otter Falls: 6.7 mi
- Diamond Notch Falls: 8.5 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 10.1 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 11.0 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 0.2 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 6.1 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 7.7 mi
- New York State Forest Preserve Centennial: 8.2 mi
- J. Waldo Smith Monument: 8.7 mi
- Samuels Point: 4.2 mi
- Cornell Crack: 4.9 mi
- Giant Ledge: 5.3 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 7.4 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 8.3 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 1.9 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 9.0 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 11.5 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 14.1 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 14.7 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 10.4 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 14.8 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 17.6 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 18.3 mi
- West Landing: 18.8 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 2.2 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 4.5 mi
- Winnisook: 8.5 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 10.4 mi
- The Great Knot: 12.9 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 16.9 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 18.3 mi
- The Walled Garden: 19.4 mi
- The Upper Garden: 19.4 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 19.4 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 0.6 mi
- Rail Explorers: 1.9 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 18.0 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 18.6 mi
- Pratt Rock: 18.8 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 8.2 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 8.8 mi
- Bear Wallow: 8.9 mi
- Bear Wallow: 9.0 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 9.2 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 8.6 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 11.0 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 18.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Mount Pleasant Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | SW 231° | 1,266 m | 6.1 mi |
| Hunter Mountain | NNE 21° | 1,228.34 m | 9.0 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | N 1° | 1,186 m | 7.8 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | SW 221° | 1,174 m | 4.9 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | NE 47° | 1,168.91 m | 8.3 mi |
| Table Mountain | SW 221° | 1,165.86 m | 8.8 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | SW 217° | 1,164.03 m | 8.9 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | NE 55° | 1,160 m | 9.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:33 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:44 | 16:29 |
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 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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