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Big Rosy Bone Knob

Big Rosy Bone Knob, seen from above at true elevation

Big Rosy Bone Knob rises to 677 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the north-northwest, 7.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Pople Hill, a peak 1.4 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 8.5 miles off.

About

The story

Big Rosy Bone Knob is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York southwest of West Shokan. Little Rocky is located north-northeast, and Steiny Hill is located south of Big Rosy Bone Knob.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wikidata Q34805335, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
677 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.89843, -74.34487

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Lester S. Davis Park: 5.9 mi
  • Tongore Park: 7.1 mi
  • Grant Avery Park: 7.8 mi
  • Brown's Station: 8.0 mi
  • Lippman Park: 9.3 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • Yale Quarry: 6.1 mi
  • John Burroughs Monument: 7.3 mi
  • J. Waldo Smith Monument: 7.5 mi
  • Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 7.6 mi
  • Old Mine Road: 8.4 mi
Waterfalls
  • Vernooy Kill Falls: 2.2 mi
  • Metacahonts Falls: 3.2 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 3.9 mi
  • Winchell's Falls: 7.7 mi
  • Cornell Falls: 7.9 mi
Cliffs: 41
Museums: 32
Artworks: 24
Beaches: 19
Gardens: 15
  • Butterfly Garden: 13.9 mi
  • Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 17.3 mi
  • SUNY New Paltz Student Garden: 17.5 mi
  • Buddah Garden: 18.3 mi
  • Rondout Community Garden: 18.6 mi
Attractions: 10
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 10.8 mi
  • Pompey’s Cave: 10.9 mi
  • Overturned 1938 Truck: 12.1 mi
  • Rail Explorers: 12.7 mi
  • Swimming Hole: 13.1 mi
Springs: 6
  • Keyhole Spring: 2.3 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 3.4 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 5.5 mi
  • Piped Spring: 7.9 mi
  • Box Spring: 8.8 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.7 miles of Big Rosy Bone Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Slide MountainNNW1,266 m7.3 mi
Doubletop Mountain - South PeakNW1,175 m12.7 mi
Cornell MountainN1,174 m7.1 mi
Table MountainNW1,166 m5.2 mi
Peekamoose MountainNW1,164 m4.7 mi
Wittenberg MountainN1,153 m7.6 mi
Panther MountainNNW1,135 m11.2 mi
Lone MountainNNW1,128 m5.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3319:10
June solstice05:2319:5520:37
September equinox06:4518:2018:57
December solstice07:2315:4516:30

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F202229415360656457463626
Precip in4.73.25.14.95.06.05.25.66.26.45.45.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 943947 — Big Rosy Bone Knob, Ulster County, New York.

OpenStreetMap element node/357548890

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