Eagle Eyrie
Eagle Eyrie rises to 802 m in New York. Whiteface Mountain stands 1,466 m to the east-northeast, 2.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Alton, a peak 1.6 miles away. Olympic Trail passes 2.5 miles off.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q34914185, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 802 m
How to reach it
- 2.5 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 5.4 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 14.1 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 23.4 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Alton: 1.6 mi
- Pigeon Roost: 2.3 mi
- Whiteface Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Baldwin Hill: 2.6 mi
- Little Whiteface Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Moss Cliff: 1.8 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 3.1 mi
- Weeping Winds: 8.3 mi
- Great Wall: 9.3 mi
- Center of Progress Cliff: 12.9 mi
- Monument Falls: 3.2 mi
- High Falls (Main): 3.6 mi
- High Falls (Mini): 3.6 mi
- High Falls (Rainbow): 3.6 mi
- High Falls (Climax): 3.6 mi
- Brewster Park: 4.6 mi
- Mid's Park: 4.7 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 4.7 mi
- Town of Wilmington Beach: 6.5 mi
- Lake Everest - Town Beach: 6.5 mi
- Randy Preston Memorial: 2.4 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Memorial: 4.6 mi
- World War Memorial: 5.0 mi
- Kate Smith Memorial: 5.0 mi
- 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron: 6.3 mi
- High Falls Gorge: 3.5 mi
- Porridge Potholes: 3.6 mi
- Master Pothole: 3.6 mi
- Whirlpool Cove: 3.6 mi
- Indian Head Rock: 3.6 mi
- Henry's Woods: 6.5 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 7.6 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 7.9 mi
- Four Peaks Tract: 8.7 mi
- New Vida Preserve: 9.1 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 5.1 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 5.1 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 8.9 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 9.2 mi
- Six Nations Indian Museum: 12.6 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 9.6 mi
- Goolds Garden: 15.9 mi
- Peace Garden: 16.1 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 2.6 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 5.0 mi
- Footbridge Park: 19.6 mi
- Tahawus: 21.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.7 miles of Eagle Eyrie. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteface Mountain | ENE 67° | 1,466 m | 2.4 mi |
| Esther Mountain | NE 50° | 1,293 m | 3.7 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | ENE 59° | 1,242 m | 3.4 mi |
| Kilburn Mountain | SE 137° | 1,182 m | 4.7 mi |
| Moose Mountain | W 267° | 1,180 m | 2.8 mi |
| Sentinel Mountain | SE 124° | 1,174 m | 5.7 mi |
| McKenzie Mountain | WSW 255° | 1,165 m | 4.4 mi |
| Little Whiteface Mountain | E 85° | 1,111 m | 2.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 20:00 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:32 | 16:20 |
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, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 948916 — Eagle Eyrie, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357557352
Day trips start here
- Elizabethtown · 21 mi
- Westport · 28 mi
- Essex · 30 mi
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