Cornell Mountain
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Cornell Mountain rises to 1,174 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the west, 1.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Cornell Crack, a cliff 0.1 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off.
The story
Cornell Mountain is a mountain located in Shandaken, Ulster County, New York. The mountain is part of the Burroughs Range of the Catskill Mountains. Cornell Mountain is flanked to the northeast by Wittenberg Mountain, to the southwest by Friday Mountain, and to the west by 4,180-foot (1,270 m) Slide Mountain — the highest peak in the Catskills. The northwest side of Cornell Mountain drains into Woodland Creek, thence into Esopus Creek, the Hudson River, and into New York Bay. The east and southeast sides of Cornell Mtn. drain into the Wittenberg Brook, thence into Maltby Hollow Brook, Bush Kill, and Esopus Creek. The southwest side of Cornell Mtn. drains into the headwaters of the east branch of the Neversink River, thence into the Delaware River, and into Delaware Bay. Cornell Mountain is within the Slide Mountain Wilderness of New York's Catskill State Park. The Long Path, a 350-mile (560 km) long-distance hiking trail from New York City to Albany, is contiguous with the section of the Burroughs Range Trail crossing the summits of Slide, Cornell, and Wittenberg. Cornell Mountain is one of the 35 peaks in the Catskills greater than 3,500 feet elevation, and is a required ascent for membership in the Catskill Mountain 3500 Club.
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Wikidata Q5171544, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1174 m
How to reach it
- 14.7 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 17 mi
- White Dot · 18 mi
- Panther Rock · 19 mi
- Copes Lookout · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Dink: 0.5 mi
- Wittenberg Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Friday Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Slide Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Balsam Cap: 1.7 mi
- Cornell Falls: 0.8 mi
- Otter Falls: 3.8 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 6.1 mi
- High Falls: 8.8 mi
- Vernooy Kill Falls: 8.9 mi
- Future DEC: 3.5 mi
- Oak Ridge Unit: 3.5 mi
- Woodland Valley Unit: 4.0 mi
- Watson Hollow Unit: 4.2 mi
- Bushkill Fishing Unit: 4.5 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 4.6 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 4.8 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 6.0 mi
- Parish Field: 6.2 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 6.7 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 1.5 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 3.3 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 4.9 mi
- Forstmann Castle: 7.4 mi
- ruins: 8.0 mi
- Cornell Crack: 0.1 mi
- Samuels Point: 2.5 mi
- Giant Ledge: 3.3 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 6.1 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 10.4 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 6.0 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 9.9 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 12.5 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 15.1 mi
- Hurley Heritage Museum: 15.9 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 10.5 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 14.1 mi
- Scuba Diving Access Area: 19.8 mi
- Lake Minnewaska Beach: 19.9 mi
- Kingston Point Beach: 20.7 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 4.8 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 5.9 mi
- Winnisook: 8.4 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 15.1 mi
- Gnome Chomsky: 15.4 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 18.4 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 19.9 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 20.4 mi
- Rough Garden: 22.5 mi
- Formal Gardens: 22.5 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 4.9 mi
- Rail Explorers: 6.0 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 16.3 mi
- Overturned 1938 Truck: 19.2 mi
- Swimming Hole: 19.5 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 3.8 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 5.8 mi
- Bear Wallow: 6.2 mi
- Bear Wallow: 6.3 mi
- Piped Spring: 9.2 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 13.5 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 15.6 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 22.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.3 miles of Cornell Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | W 265° | 1,266 m | 1.5 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain | WNW 282° | 1,180 m | 9.0 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain - South Peak | W 280° | 1,175 m | 8.8 mi |
| Table Mountain | SW 220° | 1,165.86 m | 3.9 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | SSW 213° | 1,164.03 m | 4.0 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | NE 44° | 1,152.75 m | 0.7 mi |
| Panther Mountain | NNW 333° | 1,135.08 m | 4.3 mi |
| Lone Mountain | SW 218° | 1,127.76 m | 2.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:45 | 16:30 |
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 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357598511
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