Ashokan High Point
Ashokan High Point rises to 939 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the northwest, 7.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Bear Wallow, a spring less than a tenth of a mile away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 8.4 miles off.
The story
Ashokan High Point or High Point is a 3,081 feet (939 m) summit in the Catskill Mountains of New York. High Point is the loftiest part of a massif that includes the adjacent Mombaccus Mountain, Little Rocky and South Mountain. The summit can be accessed via the Kanape Brook Trail, which ascends from Ulster County Road 42 to the saddle between High Point and Mombaccus. This trail, named for 19th-century farmer John Canape, was formerly a wagon track connected to the present-day Freeman Avery Road on the south side of the mountain, providing a route between Watson Hollow and Samsonville in the days of the Catskills tanneries. The Gazetteer and Business Directory of Ulster County, N.Y. For 1871-2 referred to the peak as "Shokan Point". It was also known as "Samson," after the Catskill tannery owner for whom Samsonville was named, and is so identified on a 1942 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey benchmark at the summit. Nowadays, Samson Mountain is the name given to a nearby peak above the upper reaches of Rondout Creek. A lesser summit below the main peak affords an expansive view of the area. It has been called "Little Ashokan," "Little High Point," "Round Mountain," "Ashokan Cobble" or "Samson's Nose".
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Wikidata Q4805812, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 939 m
How to reach it
- 8.4 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 10 mi
- White Dot · 12 mi
- Copes Lookout · 13 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Little High Point: 0.4 mi
- Little Point: 1.4 mi
- Mombaccus Mountain: 1.6 mi
- South Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Southeast Little Rocky: 2.0 mi
- Future DEC: 1.3 mi
- Future DEC: 1.4 mi
- Watson Hollow Unit: 2.2 mi
- Ashokan Fishing Access Area: 2.6 mi
- Future DEC: 2.9 mi
- ruins: 2.7 mi
- Yale Quarry: 2.8 mi
- J. Waldo Smith Monument: 4.1 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 7.2 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 8.3 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 3.0 mi
- Tongore Park: 3.9 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 4.5 mi
- Brown's Station: 4.6 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 7.1 mi
- Metacahonts Falls: 3.1 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 4.5 mi
- Vernooy Kill Falls: 5.6 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 6.5 mi
- Cornell Falls: 7.1 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 4.6 mi
- Samuels Point: 5.0 mi
- Cornell Crack: 6.4 mi
- Giant Ledge: 9.6 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 9.7 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 9.2 mi
- D & H Canal Museum and Visitor Center: 10.7 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 10.8 mi
- Widow Jane Mine Museum: 11.3 mi
- Snyder Carriage and Sleigh Museum: 11.3 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 5.0 mi
- Gnome Chomsky: 9.4 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 10.9 mi
- Winnisook: 14.7 mi
- Opus 40: 15.8 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 8.3 mi
- Scuba Diving Access Area: 13.8 mi
- Lake Minnewaska Beach: 13.9 mi
- Lake Awosting Beach: 15.2 mi
- Kingston Point Beach: 16.6 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 14.1 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 14.2 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 15.6 mi
- SUNY New Paltz Student Garden: 16.8 mi
- Formal Gardens: 19.9 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 8.6 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 10.0 mi
- Rail Explorers: 10.8 mi
- Swimming Hole: 13.3 mi
- Overturned 1938 Truck: 14.4 mi
- Bear Wallow: 0.0 mi
- Bear Wallow: 0.1 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 1.3 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 6.8 mi
- Piped Spring: 10.7 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 16.8 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 19.9 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 21.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Ashokan High Point. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | NW 316° | 1,266 m | 7.2 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | NNW 326° | 1,174 m | 6.3 mi |
| Table Mountain | WNW 291° | 1,165.86 m | 6.4 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | WNW 289° | 1,164.03 m | 6.0 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | NNW 332° | 1,152.75 m | 6.5 mi |
| Panther Mountain | NNW 329° | 1,135.08 m | 10.6 mi |
| Lone Mountain | WNW 300° | 1,127.76 m | 6.1 mi |
| Friday Mountain | NW 319° | 1,125 m | 5.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:33 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:54 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 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, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 952753 — High Point, Ulster County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357564414
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