Bald Hill
Bald Hill rises to 456 m in New York. South Beacon Mountain stands 491 m to the southwest, 2.0 miles off. The nearest named place is The Mt. Beacon Eight, a historic site 0.4 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off.
The story
Bald Hill is a hill located on the Hudson Highlands in Dutchess County, New York. It has an elevation of 1,499 feet (457 m). The hill is one of two peaks—Lamb's Hill is the other—located on the Fishkill Ridge Trail in Hudson Highlands State Park.
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Wikidata Q34803355, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 456 m
How to reach it
- 14.7 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Exposure · 22 mi
- Hawkwatch · 22 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 22 mi
- Thurston Rock · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Lambs Hill: 0.7 mi
- North Beacon Mountain: 1.7 mi
- South Beacon Mountain: 2.0 mi
- East Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Osborne Hill: 3.1 mi
- Jean Van Pelt Park: 1.3 mi
- Geering Park: 2.0 mi
- Roundhouse Trail: 2.3 mi
- Beacon Memorial Park: 2.4 mi
- Sarah Taylor Park: 2.5 mi
- Thayer Statue: 7.8 mi
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower: 7.9 mi
- General Patton: 7.9 mi
- Washington Monument: 7.9 mi
- Day Game: 8.7 mi
- The Mt. Beacon Eight: 0.4 mi
- American revolution signal Beacon monument: 1.7 mi
- Beacon Hill Incline Railway Powerhouse: 2.1 mi
- City of Beacon War Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Mount Culian: 3.3 mi
- Stonykill Environmental Education Center: 3.3 mi
- Open Space Institute: 5.3 mi
- Taconic Unit: 5.5 mi
- West Branch Headwaters Unit: 6.7 mi
- Roe Park: 6.8 mi
- Van Wyck Homestead Museum: 2.1 mi
- Dia:Beacon: 3.4 mi
- Magazzino: 5.0 mi
- Motorcyclepedia Museum: 6.0 mi
- Putnam History Museum: 6.1 mi
- Timp-Torne Trail: 15.4 mi
- Dunderberg Spiral Railway: 15.5 mi
- Watchtower Educational Center: 17.7 mi
- Ulster County Fair: 18.6 mi
- Huguenot Street Historic District: 19.4 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 9.9 mi
- Hell Hole: 12.9 mi
- Kaal Rock: 14.0 mi
- Lemon Squeezer: 20.2 mi
- Bard Rock: 21.0 mi
- Haldane School Garden: 5.8 mi
- Boscobel Gardens: 6.3 mi
- Cut Garden: 11.8 mi
- Vassar College Community Gardens: 12.1 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 12.7 mi
- Canopus Beach: 5.2 mi
- Mahopac Hills Beach: 11.7 mi
- Berean Park Beach: 15.3 mi
- Tonetta Lake Beach: 16.7 mi
- Brick Beach: 17.8 mi
- LG waterfall: 11.8 mi
- Upper Falls: 19.9 mi
- Lower Falls: 19.9 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 21.2 mi
- Saw Mill Falls: 22.9 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 10.5 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 10.5 mi
- Wallkill Rest Area: 19.7 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 22.0 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 6.4 mi
- Bergfield Picnic Site: 23.9 mi
- Pell Hill: 24.3 mi
- Dicktown: 7.6 mi
- Doodletown: 14.7 mi
- Trapps Mountain Hamlet Historic District: 22.2 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 24.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.9 miles of Bald Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Beacon Mountain | SW 225° | 491 m | 2.0 mi |
| North Beacon Mountain | WSW 238° | 465 m | 1.7 mi |
| Lambs Hill | SW 232° | 454 m | 0.7 mi |
| Spy Rock | SW 215° | 441 m | 9.4 mi |
| Bull Hill | SSW 205° | 433 m | 4.8 mi |
| Crows Nest | SSW 208° | 429 m | 7.3 mi |
| Rattlesnake Hill | SSW 212° | 429 m | 8.7 mi |
| Black Rock | SW 220° | 424 m | 8.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:52 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:45 | 16:30 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 31 | 39 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — W PT, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357595817
Day trips start here
- Cold Spring · 6 mi
- Putnam County · 10 mi
- Highlands · 11 mi
- Stony Point · 19 mi
- Croton-on-Hudson · 21 mi
- Ossining · 24 mi
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