Stissing Mountain
Stissing Mountain is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 137 m. Mount Frissell stands 747 m to the east-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is FOSL, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 22 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Nature Conservancy
How to reach it
- 21.7 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 23 mi
- High Falls · 25 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 28 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- FOSL: 0.4 mi
- FOSL: 0.5 mi
- Stissing Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Buttercup Farm Audubon Sanctuary: 3.2 mi
- Stonehouse Wood Sanctuary: 8.8 mi
- Stissing Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Little Stissing Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Hicks Hill: 2.0 mi
- Conklin Hill: 2.1 mi
- Dolphin Hill: 2.9 mi
- Stissing Lake Park: 1.0 mi
- Stissing Mountain Multiple Use Area: 2.2 mi
- Wilcox Memorial Park: 2.7 mi
- Roeliff Jansenkill Multiple Use Area: 4.3 mi
- Stanford Recreation Park: 6.4 mi
- Riga Falls: 11.9 mi
- Sages Ravine Falls: 13.6 mi
- Sages Ravine Falls: 13.7 mi
- Bash Bish Falls: 14.3 mi
- Bear Rock Falls: 14.3 mi
- War Memorial: 1.8 mi
- Moravian Christian Mission Monument: 2.0 mi
- Folly: 10.3 mi
- Patriot Burials: 10.6 mi
- Lime Kiln: 10.8 mi
- Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum: 9.5 mi
- The Story Studio: 10.2 mi
- Gay-Holt House Museum: 12.0 mi
- Holley Williams House Museum: 12.3 mi
- Center For Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art: 12.6 mi
- Old Dutch Village Garden Club: 10.2 mi
- The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 12.4 mi
- Bard Community Garden: 12.4 mi
- Formal Gardens: 12.7 mi
- Ellipse: 12.7 mi
- Diving Lady: 11.7 mi
- Parliament of Reality: 12.3 mi
- America: 12.4 mi
- Stargon: 12.5 mi
- Wishbone: 12.7 mi
- East Beach: 9.0 mi
- West Beach: 9.0 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 13.9 mi
- South Landing: 13.9 mi
- West Landing: 13.9 mi
- Trap Cliff: 12.9 mi
- Indian Rock: 16.7 mi
- Bard Rock: 17.4 mi
- Grand Staircase: 19.1 mi
- Pine Ledge: 19.5 mi
- wings castle: 8.4 mi
- Town Hill Farm: 12.9 mi
- Giant's Thumb: 14.7 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 15.8 mi
- Dover Stone Church: 16.2 mi
- Dudley Town: 20.0 mi
- Questing: 24.6 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 14.9 mi
- Guilder Pond Picnic area: 16.1 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 21.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.8 miles of Stissing Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Frissell | ENE 59° | 747 m | 11.9 mi |
| Mount Ashley | ENE 57° | 725 m | 12.6 mi |
| Brace Mountain | ENE 59° | 706 m | 11.2 mi |
| South Brace Mountain | ENE 61° | 702 m | 11.1 mi |
| Round Mountain | ENE 60° | 695 m | 12.1 mi |
| Alander Mountain | NE 46° | 680 m | 12.5 mi |
| Gridley Mountain | ENE 64° | 668 m | 12.2 mi |
| Bald Peak | ENE 73° | 588 m | 11.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:30 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:52 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:42 | 16:27 |
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 | 24 | 26 | 34 | 46 | 58 | 66 | 71 | 70 | 62 | 50 | 39 | 30 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rhinebeck 4SE, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/1358884328
Day trips start here
- Great Barrington · 23 mi
- Monterey · 28 mi
- Stockbridge · 29 mi
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