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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
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
Nature reserves
  • Ulster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 3.8 mi
  • Watson Hollow Unit: 4.3 mi
  • Future DEC: 4.7 mi
  • Future DEC: 4.7 mi
  • Future DEC: 4.8 mi
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
Historic sites
  • ruins: 6.0 mi
  • Yale Quarry: 6.1 mi
  • John Burroughs Monument: 7.3 mi
  • J. Waldo Smith Monument: 7.5 mi
  • Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 7.6 mi
Cliffs: 42
Museums: 32
Artworks: 24
Beaches: 20
Gardens: 16
  • 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: 8
  • Keyhole Spring: 2.3 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 3.4 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 3.5 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 5.5 mi
  • Piped Spring: 7.9 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 MountainNNW 343°1,266 m7.3 mi
Doubletop Mountain - South PeakNW 313°1,175 m12.7 mi
Cornell MountainN 355°1,174 m7.1 mi
Table MountainNW 323°1,165.86 m5.2 mi
Peekamoose MountainNW 324°1,164.03 m4.7 mi
Wittenberg MountainN 359°1,152.75 m7.6 mi
Panther MountainNNW 347°1,135.08 m11.2 mi
Lone MountainNNW 335°1,127.76 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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