Briggs Mountain
Briggs Mountain rises to 266 m in New York. Brace Mountain stands 706 m to the east-northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Coles Hill, a peak 1.0 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34806218, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 266 m
How to reach it
- 19.2 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 20 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 26 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 26 mi
- Hayes Lookout · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Coles Hill: 1.0 mi
- Mount Concert: 1.8 mi
- Tory Hill: 1.8 mi
- Doty Hill: 1.8 mi
- Hicks Hill: 2.6 mi
- Roeliff Jansenkill Multiple Use Area: 1.5 mi
- Wilcox Memorial Park: 2.8 mi
- Stissing Lake Park: 4.6 mi
- Stissing Mountain Multiple Use Area: 4.7 mi
- Red Hook Memorial Park: 6.1 mi
- FOSL: 4.0 mi
- Stissing Mountain: 4.3 mi
- Buttercup Farm Audubon Sanctuary: 6.9 mi
- Stonehouse Wood Sanctuary: 7.3 mi
- New Forge State Forest: 9.6 mi
- Cantine Dam Falls: 11.4 mi
- Glenerie Falls: 11.7 mi
- Riga Falls: 15.4 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 15.9 mi
- Bash Bish Falls: 15.9 mi
- War Memorial: 5.1 mi
- Moravian Christian Mission Monument: 6.3 mi
- Patriot Burials: 8.7 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 9.3 mi
- Shell Midden: 9.5 mi
- Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum: 5.8 mi
- The Story Studio: 6.1 mi
- Center For Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art: 8.4 mi
- Kiersted House: 11.7 mi
- Trolley Museum of New York: 12.6 mi
- Parliament of Reality: 8.0 mi
- America: 8.1 mi
- Stargon: 8.2 mi
- Wishbone: 8.4 mi
- Diving Lady: 9.9 mi
- Old Dutch Village Garden Club: 6.1 mi
- The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 8.2 mi
- Bard Community Garden: 8.2 mi
- Ellipse: 8.5 mi
- Formal Gardens: 8.5 mi
- West Beach: 7.0 mi
- East Beach: 7.4 mi
- South Landing: 9.5 mi
- West Landing: 9.6 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 9.7 mi
- Trap Cliff: 8.7 mi
- Indian Rock: 15.1 mi
- Bard Rock: 16.2 mi
- Ministers Face: 17.9 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 18.2 mi
- wings castle: 11.1 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 12.7 mi
- Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 14.8 mi
- Town Hill Farm: 17.0 mi
- Giant's Thumb: 18.5 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 10.5 mi
- Guilder Pond Picnic area: 18.2 mi
- Dudley Town: 24.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.4 miles of Briggs Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brace Mountain | ENE 75° | 706 m | 14.0 mi |
| South Brace Mountain | ENE 76° | 702 m | 14.0 mi |
| Thorpe Mountain | E 90° | 518 m | 13.8 mi |
| Bird Peak | E 94° | 477 m | 14.0 mi |
| Silver Mountain | ESE 115° | 427 m | 10.3 mi |
| Stissing Mountain | SE 127° | 425 m | 4.0 mi |
| Fox Hill | ENE 72° | 410 m | 12.0 mi |
| Winchell Mountain | E 101° | 403 m | 11.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:30 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:52 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:42 | 16:27 |
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 | 24 | 26 | 34 | 46 | 58 | 66 | 71 | 70 | 62 | 50 | 39 | 30 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rhinebeck 4SE, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 944741 — Briggs Mountain, Dutchess County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357550520
Day trips start here
- Great Barrington · 25 mi
- Kinderhook · 29 mi
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