Buck Mountain
Buck Mountain rises to 812 m in New York. Santanoni Peak stands 1,401 m to the east, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Platt Hill, a peak 2.1 miles away. Adirondack Trail passes 6.9 miles off. 144 named places lie within 25 miles, 55 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain near Long Lake in the town of Long Lake, Hamilton County, New York, United States.
Wikidata Q34806629, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 812 m
How to reach it
- 6.9 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 5.9 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 11.4 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 14.7 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Balfour Lake overlook · 22 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Jumping Complex K-120 Meter Jump Observation Deck · 24 mi
- Viewpoint to East · 26 mi
- Snow Mountain Lookout · 29 mi
144 named places within 25 miles
- Platt Hill: 2.1 mi
- Rock Pond Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Spruce Top: 2.6 mi
- Blueberry Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Kempshall Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Long Lake Town Beach: 6.9 mi
- Town of Long Lake Municipal Park: 7.1 mi
- Mt Sabattis Town Park: 7.4 mi
- Flanders Park: 12.3 mi
- Byron Park: 20.3 mi
- Pendleton: 9.8 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 15.2 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 17.7 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 18.3 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 19.9 mi
- Upper Falls: 5.6 mi
- Raquette Falls: 5.9 mi
- Lower Falls: 6.0 mi
- Millers Falls: 8.2 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 12.0 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 11.7 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 18.5 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 21.3 mi
- Raquette Lake Navigation Co.: 22.6 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 23.3 mi
- DEC Little Tupper Lake Headquarters: 9.9 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 10.0 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 13.2 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 15.2 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 22.0 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 11.4 mi
- Tupper Lake History Museum: 11.9 mi
- Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake: 13.9 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 21.5 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 21.9 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 14.3 mi
- Wallface: 17.0 mi
- The Crags: 21.3 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 23.6 mi
- Blue Mountain Lake Beach: 14.9 mi
- Silver Beach: 20.6 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 24.2 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 12.9 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 22.2 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 12.0 mi
- Tahawus: 15.5 mi
- Rafting: 19.9 mi
- Iron Cross: 23.7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santanoni Peak | E 84° | 1,401 m | 11.6 mi |
| Panther Peak | ENE 78° | 1,358 m | 11.7 mi |
| Seward Mountain | NE 51° | 1,319 m | 10.4 mi |
| Donaldson Mountain | NE 50° | 1,238 m | 9.7 mi |
| Seymour Mountain | NE 56° | 1,236 m | 11.4 mi |
| Mount Emmons | NE 53° | 1,226 m | 9.2 mi |
| Couchsachraga Peak | ENE 78° | 1,157 m | 10.3 mi |
| Blue Mountain | S 188° | 1,143 m | 13.4 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 | 07:30 | 15:35 | 16:23 |
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 | 52 | 61 | 65 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newcomb, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 945044 — Buck Mountain, Hamilton County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357551281
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