Black Mountain
Black Mountain rises to 901 m in New York. Whiteface Mountain stands 1,466 m to the north-northwest, 6.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Slide Mountain, a peak 1.0 miles away. High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73) passes 2.3 miles off.
The story
mountain in New York, United States of America
Wikidata Q34805493, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 901 m
How to reach it
- 2.3 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 3.4 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 19.2 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 20.2 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Slide Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Brown Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Kilburn Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Eisenglass Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Sentinel Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Weeping Winds: 2.3 mi
- Moss Cliff: 5.1 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 5.7 mi
- The Courthouse: 6.7 mi
- Great Wall: 8.8 mi
- East Branch Community Trails: 4.6 mi
- Mid's Park: 6.0 mi
- Brewster Park: 6.0 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 6.1 mi
- Town of Wilmington Beach: 8.1 mi
- Cascade Falls: 3.4 mi
- Monument Falls: 3.6 mi
- Hulls Falls: 4.4 mi
- High Falls (Main): 5.3 mi
- High Falls (Mini): 5.3 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 3.8 mi
- Henry's Woods: 6.0 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 6.6 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 7.0 mi
- Four Peaks Tract: 7.8 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Memorial: 3.4 mi
- 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron: 4.9 mi
- John Brown Memorial Statue: 5.4 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 5.7 mi
- World War Memorial: 5.9 mi
- Mountain Pass Lodge: 4.6 mi
- Lake Placid Bobsled Experience at Mt. Van Hoevenberg: 4.6 mi
- Cliffside Coaster: 4.7 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex: 4.9 mi
- Skyride: 4.9 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 5.9 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 5.9 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 13.4 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 13.5 mi
- Adirondack history center museum: 14.2 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 14.4 mi
- Goolds Garden: 22.0 mi
- Peace Garden: 22.1 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 5.8 mi
- Westport Beach: 22.3 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 6.5 mi
- Footbridge Park: 13.8 mi
- Tahawus: 17.8 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 19.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.6 miles of Black Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteface Mountain | NNW 344° | 1,466 m | 6.7 mi |
| Big Slide Mountain | S 182° | 1,280 m | 6.2 mi |
| Cascade Mountain | S 175° | 1,249 m | 3.7 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | N 352° | 1,242 m | 7.4 mi |
| Porter Mountain | S 171° | 1,240 m | 4.2 mi |
| Yard Mountain | S 188° | 1,216 m | 6.8 mi |
| Kilburn Mountain | NNW 340° | 1,182 m | 2.2 mi |
| Sentinel Mountain | NNE 17° | 1,174 m | 2.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:59 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:32 | 16:20 |
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 | 18 | 26 | 39 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 21 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lake Placid 2 S, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 944149 — Black Mountain, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357549220
Day trips start here
- Elizabethtown · 15 mi
- Westport · 22 mi
- Essex · 26 mi
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