Driftwood Mountain
Driftwood Mountain rises to 653 m in New York. Snowy Mountain stands 1,166 m to the north-northwest, 5.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Indian Lake Day Use Area, a picnic site 0.6 miles away. Adirondack Trail passes 1.4 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34821560, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 653 m
How to reach it
- 1.4 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 10.9 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
- 19.4 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 8.8 mi off the Southern Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint to East · 4 mi
- River Overlook · 9 mi
- Rocky Mountain Overlook · 24 mi
- Balfour Lake overlook · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Pine Hill: 0.8 mi
- Floodwood Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Gates Hill: 1.7 mi
- Windfall Hill: 2.0 mi
- Belden Hill: 2.1 mi
- Dug Mountain Brook Upper Waterfall: 2.6 mi
- Dug Mountain Brook Waterfall: 2.7 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 5.0 mi
- Beaver Brook Waterfall: 5.0 mi
- Christine Falls: 8.6 mi
- shuffle board: 9.6 mi
- Byron Park: 11.9 mi
- Poplar Point Day Use Area: 16.4 mi
- Parker's Corner Park: 17.0 mi
- Mt Sabattis Town Park: 23.4 mi
- Dug Mountain Primitive Area: 1.5 mi
- Wakely Mountain Primitive Area: 10.4 mi
- Forks Mountain Primitive Area: 12.4 mi
- Chatiemac Lake Primitive Area: 16.4 mi
- Hudson Gorge Primitive Area: 16.6 mi
- Chimney Mountain: 7.9 mi
- Mini Route 66: 9.2 mi
- Gore Mt. Mineral Shop: 15.8 mi
- Raquette Lake Navigation Co.: 19.3 mi
- Tannery Pond Community Association: 19.6 mi
- Eagle Bluff: 17.7 mi
- Echo Cliff: 17.8 mi
- Wayout Wall: 19.7 mi
- The Crags: 20.3 mi
- Beaverview Wall: 20.5 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 5.3 mi
- Long Beach: 5.3 mi
- Blue Mountain Lake Beach: 15.9 mi
- Silver Beach: 17.8 mi
- Grunblatt Memorial Beach: 19.3 mi
- Sugar Shack Ruins: 16.0 mi
- Gate House Ruins: 16.8 mi
- paint mine: 20.5 mi
- Old Crane Mt Fire Tower Location: 21.0 mi
- Pendleton: 24.7 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 0.6 mi
- Jessup River Day Use Area: 2.7 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 20.5 mi
- Speculator Historical Museum: 9.0 mi
- Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake: 16.9 mi
- North Creek Depot Museum: 19.5 mi
- Rt 30 Alien: 1.5 mi
- Iron Cross: 15.7 mi
- Rafting: 11.5 mi
- Whitewater rafting: 17.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.6 miles of Driftwood Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snowy Mountain | NNW 348° | 1,166 m | 5.0 mi |
| Panther Mountain | N 350° | 1,146 m | 7.5 mi |
| Lewey Mountain | WNW 302° | 1,117 m | 4.5 mi |
| Buell Mountain | NNW 341° | 1,114 m | 6.3 mi |
| Pillsbury Mountain | WSW 245° | 1,094 m | 8.1 mi |
| Puffer Mountain | ENE 75° | 1,048 m | 8.6 mi |
| Buck Mountain | NW 322° | 1,020 m | 5.7 mi |
| Cellar Mountain | W 281° | 1,001 m | 4.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:32 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:59 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 15:37 | 16:24 |
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 | 16 | 17 | 26 | 39 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Indian Lake 2SW, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 948653 — Driftwood Mountain, Hamilton County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357557029
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