Cross Mountain
Cross Mountain rises to 763 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the west-southwest, 3.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Pleasant, a peak 1.1 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off.
The story
Cross Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York south of Phoenicia. Sheridan Mountain is located north, Terrace Mountain is located west, and Romer Mountain is located north of Cross Mountain.
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Wikidata Q34809917, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 763 m
How to reach it
- 14.7 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 18 mi
- Copes Lookout · 19 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 19 mi
- Hayes Lookout · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Pleasant: 1.1 mi
- Terrace Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Samuels Point: 1.5 mi
- Wittenberg Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Cornell Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 2.5 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 4.0 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 4.4 mi
- Parish Field: 4.5 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 5.4 mi
- Mount Tremper Unit: 2.3 mi
- Woodland Valley Unit: 2.7 mi
- Mount Pleasant Unit: 2.8 mi
- Oak Ridge Unit: 3.0 mi
- Romer Mountain Unit: 3.1 mi
- Cornell Falls: 2.3 mi
- Otter Falls: 5.3 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 8.3 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 8.7 mi
- Metacahonts Falls: 9.8 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 2.6 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 3.8 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 5.6 mi
- J. Waldo Smith Monument: 7.4 mi
- Yale Quarry: 7.6 mi
- Samuels Point: 1.7 mi
- Cornell Crack: 2.3 mi
- Giant Ledge: 4.2 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 7.9 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 8.3 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 4.2 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 10.2 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 12.3 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 14.3 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 14.4 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 3.2 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 4.3 mi
- Winnisook: 8.8 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 13.2 mi
- The Great Knot: 14.5 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 10.9 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 13.5 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 19.1 mi
- Kingston Point Beach: 19.1 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 19.1 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 16.8 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 18.3 mi
- Rough Garden: 20.4 mi
- Formal Gardens: 20.4 mi
- Ellipse: 20.4 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 2.6 mi
- Rail Explorers: 4.2 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 16.3 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 18.6 mi
- Swimming Hole: 19.9 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 6.2 mi
- Bear Wallow: 6.6 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 6.7 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 11.0 mi
- Piped Spring: 11.6 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 11.3 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 13.8 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 20.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.6 miles of Cross Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | WSW 249° | 1,266 m | 3.8 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | WSW 238° | 1,174 m | 2.4 mi |
| Table Mountain | SW 227° | 1,166 m | 6.2 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | SW 222° | 1,164 m | 6.2 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | WSW 244° | 1,153 m | 1.8 mi |
| Panther Mountain | WNW 303° | 1,135 m | 4.7 mi |
| Lone Mountain | SW 227° | 1,128 m | 5.1 mi |
| Big Indian Mountain | W 277° | 1,127 m | 9.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:44 | 16:29 |
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, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 947805 — Cross Mountain, Ulster County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357555759
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