Azure Mountain
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Azure Mountain rises to 708 m in New York. Rice Mountain stands 768 m to the east-southeast, 7.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Brushy Top Mountain, a peak 1.2 miles away. Adirondack Trail passes 9.3 miles off.
The story
Azure Mountain is a 2,323-foot-tall (708 m) mountain near Blue Mountain Road in the Adirondack Park town of Waverly in Franklin County, New York. Azure Mountain is the site of the Azure Mountain Fire Observation Station, a 35-foot-tall (11 m) steel tower that was built in 1918 and later restored in 2002. The fire tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
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Wikidata Q4833102, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 708 m
How to reach it
- 9.3 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 18.8 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 23.4 mi off the Military Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Brushy Top Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Lost Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Eagle Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Flat Top Mountain: 2.6 mi
- West Mountain: 2.6 mi
- The Great Lawn: 14.3 mi
- Hopkinton Town Green: 14.4 mi
- Brighton Memorial Park: 17.4 mi
- Seven Springs: 17.9 mi
- Flanders Park: 21.7 mi
- High Falls: 7.9 mi
- Augerhole Falls: 8.6 mi
- Saint Regis Falls: 9.5 mi
- Jamestown Falls: 18.3 mi
- Allen Falls: 18.9 mi
- Deer River Primitive Area: 12.1 mi
- Franklin Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 12.5 mi
- Catherineville State Forest: 12.8 mi
- Snow Bowl State Forest: 17.2 mi
- Fort Jackson State Forest: 18.0 mi
- Saint Regis Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area: 12.4 mi
- The Narrows: 21.7 mi
- The Tub: 21.9 mi
- Lucy's Hole: 22.0 mi
- Cathedral Grove: 22.0 mi
- Six Nations Indian Museum: 19.7 mi
- Tupper Lake History Museum: 21.9 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 22.4 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 23.5 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 23.6 mi
- Peace Garden: 14.3 mi
- Goolds Garden: 14.4 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 21.2 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 22.4 mi
- Stacy Bluff: 1.7 mi
- Hawk Ledge: 17.3 mi
- Tannery Ruins: 21.6 mi
- Postwood Park: 23.3 mi
- Minerva Statue: 24.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.5 miles of Azure Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rice Mountain | ESE 105° | 768 m | 7.8 mi |
| Jenkins Mountain | ESE 122° | 755 m | 11.5 mi |
| Flat Top Mountain | WSW 248° | 744 m | 2.6 mi |
| West Mountain | WSW 248° | 744 m | 2.6 mi |
| Furnace Mountain | NE 49° | 736 m | 11.0 mi |
| Bay Pond Hill | SE 144° | 733 m | 10.4 mi |
| Jennings Mountain | E 90° | 724 m | 5.7 mi |
| Brushy Top Mountain | SW 229° | 708 m | 1.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:32 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 20:02 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:19 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 15:33 | 16:21 |
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 | 17 | 20 | 30 | 44 | 57 | 66 | 69 | 68 | 61 | 49 | 37 | 25 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lawrenceville 3 SW, 17 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357545752
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