Bigsby Hill
Bigsby Hill rises to 620 m in New York. Hoffman Mountain stands 1,129 m to the northeast, 6.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Cobble Hill, a peak 1.2 miles away. Roosevelt-Marcy Trail passes 4.5 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34805376, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 620 m
How to reach it
- 4.5 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 9.2 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
- 17.9 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 20.4 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
Overlooks nearby
- Balfour Lake overlook · 5 mi
- Ridge Lookout · 22 mi
- Roaring Brook Falls Lower Lookout · 23 mi
- Roaring Brook Falls Upper Lookout · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cobble Hill: 1.2 mi
- Hayes Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Green Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Oliver Hill: 2.5 mi
- Snyder Hill: 2.9 mi
- Moxham Point: 6.7 mi
- Gull Pond Cliff: 10.5 mi
- Frontiertown Crags: 11.8 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 14.6 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 16.9 mi
- Schroon Falls: 9.2 mi
- OK Slip Falls: 10.2 mi
- Dunkley Falls: 14.6 mi
- Hanging Spear Falls: 18.2 mi
- Fairy Ladder Falls: 18.3 mi
- Hudson Gorge Primitive Area: 10.3 mi
- Town of North Hudson: 11.7 mi
- First Brother Primitive Area: 14.3 mi
- Chatiemac Lake Primitive Area: 15.0 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 18.6 mi
- Courtney Park: 5.1 mi
- Bandstand Park: 7.7 mi
- Frontier Town Campground, Equestrian and Day Use Area: 11.1 mi
- Town of Horicon: 14.4 mi
- Byron Park: 17.4 mi
- Bandstand: 7.7 mi
- Pendleton: 17.3 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 17.7 mi
- Mount Marcy First Ascent: 18.6 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 19.0 mi
- Park beach: 7.7 mi
- Grunblatt Memorial Beach: 11.1 mi
- Hague Town Beach: 21.9 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 22.2 mi
- Long Beach: 22.3 mi
- Alma Farm Park: 20.6 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 23.6 mi
- West Dollar Is Day Use Area: 23.7 mi
- West Dollar Island: 23.7 mi
- Picnic Island: 23.9 mi
- Natural Stone Bridge & Caves: 7.4 mi
- Tannery Pond Community Association: 10.7 mi
- Gore Mt. Mineral Shop: 13.0 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 15.3 mi
- Chimney Mountain: 19.0 mi
- North Creek Depot Museum: 10.4 mi
- Town of Horicon Museum: 14.1 mi
- Penfield Homestead Museum: 19.7 mi
- Bolton Historical Museum: 23.8 mi
- Ticonderoga Heritage Museum: 24.6 mi
- Whitewater rafting: 9.8 mi
- Rafting: 18.5 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 7.7 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 15.7 mi
- Tahawus: 15.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Bigsby Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoffman Mountain | NE 46° | 1,129 m | 6.8 mi |
| Blue Ridge Mountain | NE 42° | 1,052 m | 7.6 mi |
| Bailey Hill | N 8° | 931 m | 4.7 mi |
| Sand Pond Mountain | NNE 13° | 893 m | 6.5 mi |
| Green Mountain | WSW 249° | 852 m | 2.2 mi |
| Hayes Mountain | N 351° | 834 m | 1.9 mi |
| Ragged Mountain | NNE 19° | 816 m | 9.0 mi |
| Hewitt Pond Mountain | NW 309° | 741 m | 4.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:58 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 15:34 | 16:22 |
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 | 15 | 17 | 25 | 39 | 52 | 61 | 65 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newcomb, 18 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 943971 — Bigsby Hill, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357548954
Day trips start here
- Lake George · 24 mi
- Crown Point · 25 mi
- Elizabethtown · 29 mi
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