Red Hill Knolls Unit
Red Hill Knolls Unit is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 730 m. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the northeast, 6.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Woodhull Mountain, a peak 1.3 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 14 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Water Supply
How to reach it
- 13.8 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Panther Rock · 16 mi
- Compass Rock · 19 mi
- Beacon Hill · 19 mi
- High Falls · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Woodhull Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Red Hill: 1.9 mi
- Van Wyck Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Wildcat Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Bangle Hill: 3.4 mi
- Red Hill Unit: 2.2 mi
- Bungalow Brook Unit: 4.7 mi
- Rondout Creek Unit: 5.0 mi
- Pine Patch Unit: 5.7 mi
- Western Brook Unit: 5.8 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 10.8 mi
- Big Indian Park: 11.7 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 12.7 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 13.3 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 13.4 mi
- Forstmann Castle: 3.8 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 5.2 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 6.7 mi
- ETS Relay (Ruin): 7.9 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 12.8 mi
- High Falls: 3.7 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 3.8 mi
- Vernooy Kill Falls: 7.3 mi
- Otter Falls: 7.4 mi
- Cornell Falls: 8.3 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 5.8 mi
- Cornell Crack: 8.1 mi
- Giant Ledge: 8.5 mi
- Samuels Point: 10.0 mi
- Indian Rock: 17.9 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 1.9 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 13.5 mi
- Napanoch Station: 14.9 mi
- Borscht Belt Museum: 15.8 mi
- Liberty Museum and Arts Center: 16.4 mi
- Winnisook: 11.8 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 12.1 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 13.2 mi
- Gnome Chomsky: 15.4 mi
- Beamoc Trout: 22.0 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 12.8 mi
- Rail Explorers: 13.5 mi
- Overturned 1938 Truck: 16.0 mi
- VanTran Covered Bridge: 17.9 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 18.4 mi
- Piped Spring: 1.4 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 4.3 mi
- Box Spring: 8.2 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 8.9 mi
- Bear Wallow: 10.1 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 13.2 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 18.2 mi
- Lake Awosting Beach: 18.9 mi
- Lake Minnewaska Beach: 19.2 mi
- Scuba Diving Access Area: 19.2 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 20.7 mi
- Buddah Garden: 21.2 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 24.3 mi
- SUNY New Paltz Student Garden: 24.7 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 21.2 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 22.7 mi
- Roscoe: 19.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.1 miles of Red Hill Knolls Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | NE 49° | 1,266 m | 6.7 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain | NNW 341° | 1,180 m | 6.7 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain - South Peak | NNW 341° | 1,175 m | 6.4 mi |
| Graham Mountain | NNW 335° | 1,174 m | 7.9 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | NE 56° | 1,174 m | 8.0 mi |
| Table Mountain | ENE 69° | 1,165.86 m | 4.4 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | ENE 75° | 1,164.03 m | 4.6 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | NE 55° | 1,152.75 m | 8.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:45 | 16:30 |
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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