Big Buck Mountain
Big Buck Mountain rises to 340 m in New York. Bald Hill stands 456 m to the west, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Buck State Forest, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 24 miles off.
The story
mountain in the United States of America
Wikidata Q34805191, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 340 m
How to reach it
- 24.2 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
- 27.7 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 29.3 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 29 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 29 mi
- Thurston Rock · 29 mi
- Hayes Lookout · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Big Buck State Forest: 0.4 mi
- North Putnam Unit: 0.7 mi
- White Pond Unit: 1.0 mi
- Ludingtonville Unit: 1.1 mi
- Kent Hills Unit: 1.6 mi
- Little Buck Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Money Ledge Hill: 1.2 mi
- Miller Hill: 1.7 mi
- Nimham Mount: 2.4 mi
- Bare Hill: 3.1 mi
- Hill and Dale Community Park: 4.4 mi
- Ryan's Field: 4.5 mi
- CornerStone Park: 5.1 mi
- Crane Road: 5.4 mi
- Depot Hill Multiple Use Area: 5.5 mi
- Sybil Ludington Statue: 5.3 mi
- The Mt. Beacon Eight: 10.8 mi
- chimney: 10.9 mi
- Sgt. Mark C. Palmateer Memorial Park: 11.6 mi
- Old Bet Elephant Statue: 11.6 mi
- General Patton: 14.3 mi
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower: 14.3 mi
- Thayer Statue: 14.4 mi
- Washington Monument: 14.4 mi
- greek letter pi: 14.7 mi
- Great Buddha Hall: 4.1 mi
- Van Wyck Homestead Museum: 9.1 mi
- Magazzino: 11.2 mi
- Schoolhouse Museum: 11.7 mi
- Mesier Homestead and Museum: 12.6 mi
- Personal Gardens: 6.9 mi
- Boscobel Gardens: 12.9 mi
- Haldane School Garden: 13.3 mi
- Garden: 14.4 mi
- Lasdon Public Gardens and & Veterans Memorial: 15.1 mi
- Canopus Beach: 5.9 mi
- Mahopac Hills Beach: 7.2 mi
- Tonetta Lake Beach: 7.5 mi
- Pine Ledge: 12.0 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 12.8 mi
- Watchtower Educational Center: 7.3 mi
- Danbury Fair Mall Carousel: 14.5 mi
- New Milford Tank: 16.8 mi
- Dover Stone Church: 18.1 mi
- Timp-Torne Trail: 19.6 mi
- Upper Falls: 9.6 mi
- Lower Falls: 9.6 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 11.0 mi
- LG waterfall: 16.7 mi
- Cascades: 17.4 mi
- Kelly Slide: 15.0 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 16.1 mi
- Lovers Leap: 16.4 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 17.9 mi
- Kaal Rock: 18.5 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 3.6 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 3.7 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 12.6 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 11.9 mi
- Bergfield Picnic Site: 17.6 mi
- Pell Hill: 17.9 mi
- Dicktown: 3.3 mi
- Doodletown: 20.1 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 16.5 mi
- The Silver Spring: 19.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of Big Buck Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Hill | W 273° | 456 m | 10.4 mi |
| Lambs Hill | W 270° | 454 m | 11.0 mi |
| Mount Egbert | NNE 14° | 405 m | 4.9 mi |
| Depot Hill | NNE 21° | 398 m | 6.0 mi |
| Nimham Mount | S 191° | 388 m | 2.4 mi |
| Birch Hill | ENE 77° | 386 m | 8.5 mi |
| Round Mountain | W 273° | 380 m | 6.9 mi |
| Cranberry Mountain | E 86° | 376 m | 8.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:51 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:44 | 16:29 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 29 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 67 | 73 | 72 | 64 | 53 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Stormville, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 943857 — Big Buck Mountain, Putnam County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357548635
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 5 mi
- Cold Spring · 13 mi
- Highlands · 17 mi
- Croton-on-Hudson · 22 mi
- Stony Point · 23 mi
- Ossining · 24 mi
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