Big Bear Mountain
Big Bear Mountain rises to 721 m in New York. Gore Mountain stands 1,086 m to the northeast, 4.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Bear Mountain, a peak 0.5 miles away. Central Adirondack Trail passes 7.6 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34805171, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 721 m
How to reach it
- 7.6 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
- 7.8 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 11.1 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 17.7 mi off the Dude Ranch Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint to East · 11 mi
- River Overlook · 15 mi
- Balfour Lake overlook · 16 mi
- Summit View · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Bear Mountain: 0.5 mi
- Big Shanty Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Diamond Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Durant Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Pine Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Square Falls: 3.9 mi
- Beaver Brook Waterfall: 11.1 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 11.1 mi
- Dunkley Falls: 11.2 mi
- OK Slip Falls: 11.3 mi
- Chatiemac Lake Primitive Area: 4.2 mi
- Hudson Gorge Primitive Area: 9.3 mi
- Dug Mountain Primitive Area: 11.3 mi
- Forks Mountain Primitive Area: 12.9 mi
- Unclassified: 20.2 mi
- Byron Park: 12.0 mi
- Courtney Park: 13.3 mi
- shuffle board: 15.4 mi
- Town of Horicon: 18.8 mi
- Parker's Corner Park: 19.0 mi
- Gore Mt. Mineral Shop: 4.7 mi
- Chimney Mountain: 6.5 mi
- Tannery Pond Community Association: 8.0 mi
- Mini Route 66: 15.3 mi
- Natural Stone Bridge & Caves: 15.5 mi
- Grunblatt Memorial Beach: 7.6 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 10.3 mi
- Long Beach: 10.3 mi
- Morey Stein Beach: 19.1 mi
- Blue Mountain Lake Beach: 21.7 mi
- paint mine: 9.3 mi
- Old Crane Mt Fire Tower Location: 10.2 mi
- Bandstand: 22.6 mi
- Pendleton: 23.5 mi
- Bolton Veterans' Memorial: 24.0 mi
- North Creek Depot Museum: 8.0 mi
- Speculator Historical Museum: 15.5 mi
- Town of Horicon Museum: 19.1 mi
- Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake: 22.4 mi
- Bolton Historical Museum: 24.0 mi
- Wayout Wall: 8.8 mi
- Beaverview Wall: 9.8 mi
- Moxham Point: 11.2 mi
- Gull Pond Cliff: 24.8 mi
- Whitewater rafting: 7.9 mi
- Rafting: 12.7 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 10.7 mi
- Jessup River Day Use Area: 13.8 mi
- Rt 30 Alien: 13.7 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 22.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.5 miles of Big Bear Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gore Mountain | NE 56° | 1,086 m | 4.4 mi |
| Puffer Mountain | WNW 294° | 1,048 m | 4.3 mi |
| Bullhead Mountain | NW 318° | 1,042 m | 4.8 mi |
| Eleventh Mountain | ESE 123° | 1,004 m | 2.9 mi |
| South Pond Mountain | WSW 237° | 993 m | 5.9 mi |
| Pete Gay Mountain | NE 46° | 944 m | 5.4 mi |
| County Line Mountain | WSW 246° | 939 m | 4.3 mi |
| Humphrey Mountain | W 269° | 907 m | 5.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:31 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:58 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 15:36 | 16:23 |
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 | 16 | 17 | 26 | 39 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Indian Lake 2SW, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 972094 — Big Bear Mountain, Warren County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357598382
Day trips start here
- Lake George · 28 mi
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