Wittenberg Unit
Wittenberg Unit is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 269 m. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the west, 9.7 miles off. The nearest named place is South Yankeetown Pond Unit, a nature reserve 1.2 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Water Supply
How to reach it
- 12.6 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 14 mi
- White Dot · 14 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 18 mi
- Copes Lookout · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- South Yankeetown Pond Unit: 1.2 mi
- Snake Rocks Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Peck Road Unit: 2.5 mi
- Boulevard Road Unit: 2.5 mi
- Ashokan Brook Unit: 2.8 mi
- Tonshi Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Little Tonshi Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Ticetonyk Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Acorn Hill: 1.5 mi
- Roundtop Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Bearsville Park: 2.7 mi
- Rick Volz Field: 2.9 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 3.6 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 3.6 mi
- The Comeau Property: 3.9 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 6.4 mi
- Cornell Falls: 8.3 mi
- Coward's Falls: 8.9 mi
- Black Chasm Falls: 9.1 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 9.7 mi
- Woodstock Veterans' War Memorial: 4.5 mi
- Keegan Bell: 4.5 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 5.2 mi
- J. Waldo Smith Monument: 5.2 mi
- ruins: 6.6 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 2.3 mi
- Samuels Point: 5.8 mi
- Ministers Face: 7.4 mi
- Cornell Crack: 8.1 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 9.4 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 4.4 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 7.0 mi
- Hurley Heritage Museum: 9.6 mi
- Mattewis Persen House: 10.9 mi
- Senate House Museum: 11.0 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 3.7 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 7.4 mi
- The Great Knot: 8.7 mi
- Opus 40: 8.9 mi
- The Query Family: 8.9 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 10.5 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 13.1 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 13.2 mi
- Kingston Point Beach: 13.6 mi
- West Landing: 14.0 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 11.5 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 12.9 mi
- Rough Garden: 14.4 mi
- Formal Gardens: 14.4 mi
- Ellipse: 14.4 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 4.9 mi
- Rail Explorers: 6.9 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 13.2 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 14.5 mi
- Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 16.5 mi
- Bear Wallow: 7.9 mi
- Bear Wallow: 8.0 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 8.9 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 10.2 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 11.5 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 9.7 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 13.3 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 14.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.2 miles of Wittenberg Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | W 262° | 1,266 m | 9.7 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | W 261° | 1,174 m | 8.1 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | N 9° | 1,168.91 m | 8.2 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | NNE 18° | 1,160 m | 8.1 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | W 264° | 1,152.75 m | 7.6 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | NNW 347° | 1,140 m | 10.1 mi |
| Friday Mountain | WSW 255° | 1,125 m | 8.6 mi |
| Dink | W 259° | 1,115.26 m | 8.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:54 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 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 | 22 | 24 | 31 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 60 | 48 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 4.9 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 6.3 | 6.3 | 7.0 | 4.9 | 7.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Platte Clove, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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