Calamity Mountain
Calamity Mountain rises to 1,099 m in New York. Mount Marcy stands 1,629 m to the east, 4.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Hanging Spear Falls, a waterfall 0.7 miles away. High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73) passes 9.6 miles off. 245 named places lie within 25 miles, 59 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34807358, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,099 m
How to reach it
- 9.6 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 11.2 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 12.2 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 19.7 mi off the Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
245 named places within 25 miles
- Cliff Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Mount Adams: 1.5 mi
- Mount Marshall: 1.7 mi
- Popple Hill: 2.1 mi
- Shepherd's Tooth: 2.2 mi
- Wallface: 2.9 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 4.0 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 6.7 mi
- Fish Hawk Cliffs: 8.9 mi
- Lost Lookout: 9.2 mi
- Mid's Park: 13.0 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 13.0 mi
- Brewster Park: 13.1 mi
- Baldwin Park: 15.8 mi
- Prescott Park: 16.3 mi
- Hanging Spear Falls: 0.7 mi
- MacIntyre Falls: 4.1 mi
- Indian Falls: 4.5 mi
- Rocky Falls: 4.8 mi
- Bushnell Falls: 6.7 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 0.7 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 3.1 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 3.6 mi
- Mount Marcy First Ascent: 4.1 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 7.2 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 2.0 mi
- Cliffside Coaster: 8.9 mi
- Mountain Pass Lodge: 9.0 mi
- Lake Placid Bobsled Experience at Mt. Van Hoevenberg: 9.0 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 10.5 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 2.8 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 9.7 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 9.7 mi
- Henry's Woods: 11.1 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 15.8 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 12.6 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 12.6 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 16.7 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 16.8 mi
- Adirondack History Museum: 21.9 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 18.0 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 22.0 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 24.7 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 12.6 mi
- Park beach: 22.1 mi
- Tahawus: 4.3 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 16.1 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 18.8 mi
- Footbridge Park: 21.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Calamity Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Marcy | E 80° | 1,629 m | 4.1 mi |
| Algonquin Peak | NNE 17° | 1,555 m | 2.9 mi |
| Schofield Cobble | E 82° | 1,515 m | 3.9 mi |
| Mount Haystack | E 88° | 1,498 m | 5.2 mi |
| Mount Skylight | E 94° | 1,495 m | 3.6 mi |
| Iroquois Peak | N 7° | 1,472 m | 2.4 mi |
| Boundary Peak | NNE 11° | 1,471 m | 2.6 mi |
| Basin Mountain | ENE 78° | 1,468 m | 6.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:59 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:33 | 16:21 |
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 | 18 | 26 | 39 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 21 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lake Placid 2 S, 14 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 945444 — Calamity Mountain, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357551867
Day trips start here
- Elizabethtown · 21 mi
- Westport · 29 mi
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