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Pine Patch Unit

Pine Patch Unit from directly overhead

Pine Patch Unit is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 405 m. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the north-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Rondout Creek Unit, a nature reserve 0.8 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 9.8 miles off.

What to expect

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

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates41.85359, -74.49863

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Lippman Park: 9.7 mi
  • Krieger Park: 10.7 mi
  • Centreville Station Park: 10.7 mi
  • Morningside Park: 10.7 mi
  • Mildred & Louis Resnick Park: 10.8 mi
Historic sites: 49
Cliffs: 32
Waterfalls: 31
  • Buttermilk Falls: 6.6 mi
  • Vernooy Kill Falls: 6.7 mi
  • Hanging Rock Falls: 8.6 mi
  • High Falls: 8.9 mi
  • Metacahonts Falls: 11.0 mi
Museums: 18
Attractions: 9
  • Overturned 1938 Truck: 11.4 mi
  • Pompey’s Cave: 17.3 mi
  • Swimming Hole: 17.3 mi
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 17.4 mi
  • VanTran Covered Bridge: 17.7 mi
Springs: 8
  • Box Spring: 2.7 mi
  • Piped Spring: 4.4 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 8.8 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 10.7 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 11.9 mi
Artworks: 6
  • Gnome Chomsky: 13.1 mi
  • Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 15.5 mi
  • Winnisook: 17.5 mi
  • Shandaken Eagle: 18.3 mi
  • Beamoc Trout: 22.0 mi
Beaches: 6
Gardens: 3
Rest areas: 1
  • Roscoe: 19.5 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.2 miles of Pine Patch Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Slide MountainNNE 30°1,266 m11.6 mi
Doubletop MountainN 353°1,180 m12.1 mi
Doubletop Mountain - South PeakN 353°1,175 m11.8 mi
Cornell MountainNE 36°1,174 m12.6 mi
Graham MountainNNW 349°1,174 m13.1 mi
Table MountainNNE 34°1,165.86 m8.7 mi
Peekamoose MountainNE 37°1,164.03 m8.6 mi
Wittenberg MountainNE 36°1,152.75 m13.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3419:10
June solstice05:2419:5520:37
September equinox06:4618:2018:57
December solstice07:2315:4616:31

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, 12 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/424229272

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