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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

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Coordinates41.91176, -74.61905

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Nature reserves
Parks: 41
  • 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: 31
  • 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: 28
  • 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
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
Springs: 5
  • Piped Spring: 6.3 mi
  • Box Spring: 9.7 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 11.3 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 15.7 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 17.0 mi
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 13.3 miles of Blue Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Doubletop MountainNNE1,180 m9.3 mi
Doubletop Mountain - South PeakNNE1,175 m9.1 mi
Graham MountainNNE1,174 m9.5 mi
Table MountainENE1,166 m11.5 mi
Peekamoose MountainENE1,164 m11.7 mi
Balsam Lake MountainN1,136 m9.4 mi
Lone MountainENE1,128 m12.4 mi
Big Indian MountainNE1,127 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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