Buck Mountain
Buck Mountain rises to 785 m in New York. Seward Mountain stands 1,319 m to the east, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Morris, a peak 2.9 miles away. Adirondack Trail passes 3.6 miles off. 136 named places lie within 25 miles, 51 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in Franklin County, New York, United States of America (GNIS ID = 945045).
Wikidata Q34806573, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 785 m
How to reach it
- 3.6 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 4.5 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 12.9 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 21.1 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
136 named places within 25 miles
- Mount Morris: 2.9 mi
- Spruce Top: 4.8 mi
- Goodman Mountain: 6.3 mi
- Panther Mountain: 6.4 mi
- Coney Mountain: 6.8 mi
- Flanders Park: 5.0 mi
- Long Lake Town Beach: 13.1 mi
- Town of Long Lake Municipal Park: 13.3 mi
- Mt Sabattis Town Park: 13.6 mi
- Town of Harrietstown Bike Park: 17.8 mi
- Upper Falls: 4.6 mi
- Raquette Falls: 4.8 mi
- Lower Falls: 4.8 mi
- Millers Falls: 11.0 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 17.5 mi
- Pendleton: 16.7 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 17.9 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 18.8 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 21.0 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 21.6 mi
- Saint Regis Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area: 17.5 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 18.4 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 18.7 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 20.7 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 22.8 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 4.0 mi
- Tupper Lake History Museum: 4.6 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 18.1 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 18.5 mi
- Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake: 20.3 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 6.6 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 9.2 mi
- DEC Little Tupper Lake Headquarters: 10.4 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 18.4 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 21.6 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 5.6 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 18.5 mi
- Peace Garden: 20.4 mi
- Goolds Garden: 21.0 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 16.9 mi
- Wallface: 18.9 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 24.4 mi
- Blue Mountain Lake Beach: 21.3 mi
- Cranberry Lake Day Use Area on eastern Fred Island: 21.9 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 23.1 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 17.5 mi
- Tahawus: 19.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Buck Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seward Mountain | E 91° | 1,319 m | 10.8 mi |
| Donaldson Mountain | E 94° | 1,238 m | 10.2 mi |
| Seymour Mountain | E 92° | 1,236 m | 12.1 mi |
| Mount Emmons | E 98° | 1,226 m | 10.1 mi |
| Couchsachraga Peak | ESE 110° | 1,157 m | 13.5 mi |
| Little Santanoni Mountain | ESE 117° | 1,058 m | 13.9 mi |
| Ampersand Mountain | ENE 65° | 1,022 m | 11.7 mi |
| Kempshall Mountain | SSE 155° | 1,021 m | 10.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:32 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 20:01 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 15:35 | 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 | 53 | 61 | 66 | 64 | 57 | 45 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tupper Lake Sunmount, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357551287
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