Acorn Hill
Acorn Hill rises to 398 m in New York. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is South Yankeetown Pond Unit, a nature reserve 0.8 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.
The story
Acorn Hill is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York northeast of Wittenberg. Snake Rocks is located southeast, and Johns Mountain is located north-northeast of Acorn Hill.
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Wikidata Q34802005, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 398 m
How to reach it
- 13.1 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 14 mi
- White Dot · 15 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 18 mi
- Copes Lookout · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- South Yankeetown Pond Unit: 0.8 mi
- Snake Rocks Preserve: 0.9 mi
- Wittenberg Unit: 1.5 mi
- Boulevard Road Unit: 2.5 mi
- Mount Guardian Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Snake Rocks: 0.9 mi
- Johns Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Beetree Hill: 1.6 mi
- Ohayo Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Roundtop Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Bearsville Park: 1.2 mi
- Rick Volz Field: 1.4 mi
- The Comeau Property: 2.4 mi
- Woodstock Waterfall Park: 2.8 mi
- Andy Lee Field: 3.0 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 7.2 mi
- Black Chasm Falls: 7.7 mi
- Hidden Falls: 8.3 mi
- Lemon Squeeze Falls: 8.3 mi
- Green Hole Falls: 8.3 mi
- Woodstock Veterans' War Memorial: 3.0 mi
- Keegan Bell: 3.0 mi
- J. Waldo Smith Monument: 6.2 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 6.3 mi
- Yale Quarry: 7.7 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 1.0 mi
- Ministers Face: 5.8 mi
- Samuels Point: 7.3 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 8.2 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 8.4 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 2.9 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 7.7 mi
- Hurley Heritage Museum: 9.2 mi
- Mattewis Persen House: 10.3 mi
- Senate House Museum: 10.3 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 5.2 mi
- The Great Knot: 7.2 mi
- Opus 40: 7.4 mi
- The Query Family: 7.4 mi
- Flame: 7.4 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 10.9 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 11.7 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 11.9 mi
- West Landing: 12.6 mi
- South Landing: 12.7 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 10.8 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 12.2 mi
- Rough Garden: 13.1 mi
- Formal Gardens: 13.1 mi
- Ellipse: 13.1 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 6.0 mi
- Rail Explorers: 7.7 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 12.5 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 15.1 mi
- Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 16.1 mi
- Bear Wallow: 9.3 mi
- Bear Wallow: 9.4 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 9.8 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 10.3 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 13.0 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 12.9 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 12.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of Acorn Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | NNW 344° | 1,228.34 m | 10.6 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | WSW 258° | 1,174 m | 9.6 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | N 360° | 1,168.91 m | 7.4 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | N 10° | 1,160 m | 7.1 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | W 260° | 1,152.75 m | 9.1 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | NNW 338° | 1,140 m | 9.8 mi |
| Friday Mountain | WSW 253° | 1,125 m | 10.1 mi |
| Dink | WSW 257° | 1,115.26 m | 10.0 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, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357544119
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