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Blue Hill

Blue Hill, seen from above at true elevation

Blue Hill rises to 838 m in New York. Doubletop Mountain stands 1,180 m to the north-northeast, 9.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Slawson Mountain, a peak 2.0 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.

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The story

Blue Hill is a mountain in Sullivan County, New York. It is located west-southwest of Claryville. Denman Mountain is located east-southeast of Blue Hill.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wikidata Q34805740, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
838 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.91176, -74.61905

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Nature reserves
Parks: 50
  • Shirley Diamond Memorial Park: 9.5 mi
  • Liberty Municipal Park: 9.5 mi
  • Francis A. Hanofee Memorial Park: 9.6 mi
  • Creekside Park: 10.0 mi
  • Livingston Manor Covered Bridge Park: 10.9 mi
Historic sites: 33
  • Forstmann Castle: 8.1 mi
  • ETS Relay (Ruin): 9.5 mi
  • Veteran's Memorial: 9.5 mi
  • Carriage House: 9.9 mi
  • Coykendall Lodge (Ruin): 10.1 mi
Waterfalls: 29
  • High Falls: 6.8 mi
  • Wildcat Falls: 7.6 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 10.6 mi
  • Vernooy Kill Falls: 13.0 mi
  • Otter Falls: 13.2 mi
Cliffs: 26
Museums: 8
  • Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 5.3 mi
  • Liberty Museum and Arts Center: 10.2 mi
  • Roscoe O&W Museum: 15.2 mi
  • Napanoch Station: 17.7 mi
  • Borscht Belt Museum: 17.7 mi
Springs: 7
  • Piped Spring: 6.3 mi
  • Box Spring: 9.7 mi
  • Piped Spring: 9.9 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 11.3 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 15.7 mi
Attractions: 6
  • VanTran Covered Bridge: 10.9 mi
  • Overturned 1938 Truck: 18.6 mi
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 19.5 mi
  • Rail Explorers: 19.8 mi
  • Pompey’s Cave: 24.2 mi
Beaches: 6
Artworks: 5
  • Beamoc Trout: 15.2 mi
  • Winnisook: 16.0 mi
  • Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 19.1 mi
  • Shandaken Eagle: 19.4 mi
  • Gnome Chomsky: 20.4 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Roscoe: 12.6 mi
Gardens: 1
  • Buddah Garden: 22.3 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.1 miles of Blue Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Doubletop MountainNNE 30°1,180 m9.3 mi
Doubletop Mountain - South PeakNNE 32°1,175 m9.1 mi
Graham MountainNNE 22°1,174 m9.5 mi
Table MountainENE 74°1,165.86 m11.5 mi
Peekamoose MountainENE 76°1,164.03 m11.7 mi
Balsam Lake MountainN 8°1,136 m9.4 mi
Lone MountainENE 71°1,127.76 m12.4 mi
Big Indian MountainNE 36°1,127.46 m10.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0318:3419:11
June solstice05:2419:5620:38
September equinox06:4718:2118:58
December solstice07:2415:4616:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222431445463686659483828
Precip in3.72.83.94.24.75.24.75.35.24.83.84.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Liberty 1 NE, 10 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 944305 — Blue Hill, Sullivan County, New York.

OpenStreetMap element node/357549532

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