Colonels Chair
Colonels Chair rises to 975 m in New York. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the south, 1.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Rip Van Winkle, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 25 miles off.
The story
Colonels Chair is a subpeak of Hunter Mountain in Greene County, New York, southwest of Hunter. Located south is and to the west is Rusk Mountain. Colonels Chair drains north into Schoharie Creek via Taylor Hollow and Shanty Hollow. The Hunter Mountain Ski Resort is mostly located on Colonels Chair.
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Wikidata Q34809269, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 975 m
How to reach it
- 25.1 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 26 mi
- White Dot · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- East Rusk: 1.5 mi
- Hunter Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Rusk Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Southwest Hunter Mountain: 2.7 mi
- East Jewett Range: 2.8 mi
- Railroad Bend Unit: 2.0 mi
- Diamond Notch Primitive Bicycle Corridor: 2.9 mi
- Stony Clove Unit: 4.0 mi
- Diamond Notch Unit: 4.3 mi
- Mill Hollow Unit: 4.9 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 5.0 mi
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 5.3 mi
- C.D. Lane Park: 6.7 mi
- Ashland Park: 9.0 mi
- Parish Field: 9.0 mi
- Diamond Notch Falls: 2.2 mi
- Delmura Falls: 7.5 mi
- Santa Cruz Falls: 7.7 mi
- East Kill Falls: 7.8 mi
- Bastion Falls: 8.2 mi
- New York State Forest Preserve Centennial: 3.4 mi
- Tory Fort: 7.6 mi
- Post WWII Memorial: 8.2 mi
- Layman's Monument: 8.4 mi
- Boarding House: 8.8 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 1.1 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 7.1 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 9.2 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 12.4 mi
- Zadock Pratt Museum: 13.0 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 0.1 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 9.4 mi
- Winnisook: 12.9 mi
- The Great Knot: 13.3 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 14.3 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 3.4 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 8.2 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 8.9 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 9.9 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 10.1 mi
- The Upper Garden: 17.8 mi
- The Walled Garden: 17.8 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 20.3 mi
- Rough Garden: 20.6 mi
- Ellipse: 20.6 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 13.4 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 16.9 mi
- West Landing: 18.9 mi
- South Landing: 18.9 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 20.0 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 2.4 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 7.8 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 18.9 mi
- Bear Wallow: 19.2 mi
- Bear Wallow: 19.3 mi
- Rail Explorers: 9.2 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 10.9 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 11.7 mi
- Pratt Rock: 12.4 mi
- Old Blenheim Covered Bridge: 21.6 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 0.9 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 3.2 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 17.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.9 miles of Colonels Chair. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | S 179° | 1,228.34 m | 1.6 mi |
| Black Dome | NE 49° | 1,217.37 m | 7.3 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | NE 45° | 1,204.87 m | 6.9 mi |
| Blackhead | NE 54° | 1,200.91 m | 7.9 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | SW 233° | 1,186 m | 3.8 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | SSE 146° | 1,168.91 m | 5.2 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | SE 139° | 1,160 m | 6.3 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | SSW 194° | 1,140 m | 2.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:43 | 16:28 |
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 | 21 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 61 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 27 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 3.1 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 6.0 | 4.8 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Jewett, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 947168 — Colonels Chair, Greene County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357554767
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