Cliff Mountain
Cliff Mountain rises to 1,201 m in New York. Mount Marcy stands 1,629 m to the east-northeast, 2.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Hanging Spear Falls, a waterfall 0.8 miles away. High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73) passes 8.9 miles off.
The story
Cliff Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York. The mountain is part of the Marcy Group of the Great Range of the Adirondack Mountains. Cliff is flanked to the southeast by Mount Redfield. Cliff Mountain stands within the watershed of the Opalescent River, a tributary of the Hudson River, which in turn drains into New York Bay. The north and west sides of Cliff Mtn. drain directly into the Opalescent River. The southeast side drains into Upper Twin Brook, thence into the Opalescent River. According to the 1897 survey of the Adirondacks, the height of Cliff Mountain was over 4,000 feet (1,219 m), so it was included in the 46 High Peaks; the 1953 USGS survey found it and three other peaks to be lower, but the list has not been changed. The mountain is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of Adirondack State Park. No marked trail leads to its summit.
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Wikidata Q5132708, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1201 m
How to reach it
- 8.9 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 11.6 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 12.1 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 20.9 mi off the Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Redfield: 1.4 mi
- Calamity Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Mount Colden: 1.8 mi
- Gray Peak: 2.0 mi
- Mount Skylight: 2.2 mi
- Wallface: 3.9 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 5.4 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 5.5 mi
- Fish Hawk Cliffs: 7.5 mi
- Lost Lookout: 7.8 mi
- Indian Head Trailhead: 10.8 mi
- Mid's Park: 12.9 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 13.0 mi
- Brewster Park: 13.0 mi
- Frontier Town Campground, Equestrian and Day Use Area: 16.4 mi
- Hanging Spear Falls: 0.8 mi
- Indian Falls: 3.4 mi
- Indian Falls: 3.4 mi
- MacIntyre Falls: 3.9 mi
- Rocky Falls: 4.9 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Mount Marcy First Ascent: 2.6 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 3.4 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 4.4 mi
- Lower Ausable Lake Dam: 7.5 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 2.3 mi
- Cliffside Coaster: 8.3 mi
- Mountain Pass Lodge: 8.4 mi
- Lake Placid Bobsled Experience at Mt. Van Hoevenberg: 8.4 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 10.3 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 4.2 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 8.5 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 9.7 mi
- Henry's Woods: 11.1 mi
- Boquet River Primitive Area: 15.5 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 12.5 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 12.5 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 17.2 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 17.4 mi
- Adirondack History Museum: 20.5 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 12.5 mi
- Park beach: 21.4 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 18.6 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 21.3 mi
- Tahawus: 5.2 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 14.8 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 18.4 mi
- Footbridge Park: 20.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.5 miles of Cliff Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Marcy | ENE 76° | 1,629 m | 2.6 mi |
| Algonquin Peak | NNW 348° | 1,555 m | 2.8 mi |
| Schofield Cobble | ENE 78° | 1,515 m | 2.5 mi |
| Mount Haystack | E 87° | 1,498 m | 3.7 mi |
| Mount Skylight | E 97° | 1,495 m | 2.2 mi |
| Iroquois Peak | NNW 334° | 1,472 m | 2.6 mi |
| Boundary Peak | NNW 340° | 1,471 m | 2.7 mi |
| Basin Mountain | ENE 74° | 1,468 m | 4.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:13 | 19:59 | 20:43 |
| 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 946865 — Cliff Mountain, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/3151231652
Day trips start here
- Elizabethtown · 20 mi
- Westport · 27 mi
- Crown Point · 29 mi
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