First Peak
First Peak rises to 479 m in New York. Black Mountain stands 805 m to the east-northeast, 3.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Little As You Were Island, a picnic site 0.8 miles away. Lakes to Locks Passage passes 8.3 miles off.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q34868644, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 479 m
How to reach it
- 8.3 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
- 10.3 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
- 10.6 mi off the Dude Ranch Trail
- 19.5 mi off the Stone Valley Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Summit View · 10 mi
- Flag View · 10 mi
- Kane's Falls · 13 mi
- The Eagle's Eye · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- French Point Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Shelving Rock Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Fifth Peak: 2.1 mi
- Erebus Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Federal Hill: 3.2 mi
- Pleasure Island: 1.1 mi
- Sarah Island: 1.5 mi
- Hazel Island: 1.5 mi
- Log Bay Island: 2.7 mi
- Huckleberry Island: 2.7 mi
- Bolton Veterans' Memorial: 3.5 mi
- Bolton Time Capsule: 3.5 mi
- Lafayette's Tour: 10.5 mi
- Old Champlain Canal Lock 19: 12.8 mi
- Father Jogues Monument: 13.2 mi
- LGLC Wing Pond: 1.9 mi
- Godwin Preserve: 3.8 mi
- The Pinnacle: 4.4 mi
- Trout Lake: 5.5 mi
- Leeming Jelliffe Preserve: 7.1 mi
- Ark Wall: 2.2 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 5.6 mi
- Deer Leap: 5.7 mi
- Stewarts Ledge: 6.1 mi
- New Buck: 6.4 mi
- Leonelli's Playland Arcade: 12.8 mi
- Lake George Steamboat Company: 12.9 mi
- Doctor Morbid's Haunted House: 12.9 mi
- Revolution Rail Co. - Thurman Station: 13.3 mi
- Wildwest Ranch & Western Town: 14.6 mi
- Bolton Historical Museum: 3.6 mi
- Town of Horicon Museum: 9.3 mi
- Skenesborough Museum: 10.4 mi
- Lake George Historical Association: 12.7 mi
- House of Frankenstein Wax Museum: 12.8 mi
- Little As You Were Island: 0.8 mi
- West Dollar Island: 1.3 mi
- West Dollar Is Day Use Area: 1.3 mi
- Commission Point Picnic Area: 1.7 mi
- Log Bay Island: 2.6 mi
- Morey Stein Beach: 11.5 mi
- Hague Town Beach: 11.8 mi
- Lake Hadlock Beach: 12.4 mi
- Black Point Public Beach: 16.8 mi
- Park beach: 18.5 mi
- Shelving Rock Falls: 2.7 mi
- Uncas Falls: 7.7 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 11.8 mi
- Dunkley Falls: 14.9 mi
- Bear Slide: 18.7 mi
- Community Garden: 4.7 mi
- Arboretum: 16.6 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 18.6 mi
- Colonial Revival King's Garden: 20.5 mi
- Colonial Revival King's Garden: 20.5 mi
- Chiseled Slate monoliths: 19.2 mi
- Mandala II: 21.2 mi
- Vermont Welcome Center: 15.6 mi
- Whitewater rafting: 24.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.2 miles of First Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Mountain | ENE 75° | 805 m | 3.8 mi |
| Erebus Mountain | ESE 113° | 765 m | 2.9 mi |
| Sleeping Beauty | SE 131° | 715 m | 3.6 mi |
| Buck Mountain | S 175° | 711 m | 5.0 mi |
| Catamount Mountain | NNE 19° | 702 m | 7.0 mi |
| Fivemile Mountain | NNE 22° | 688 m | 3.6 mi |
| Huckleberry Mountain | NNE 23° | 680 m | 3.9 mi |
| Pilot Knob | S 181° | 658 m | 7.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:29 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:56 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 15:34 | 16:21 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 21 | 23 | 33 | 47 | 59 | 68 | 72 | 71 | 63 | 51 | 39 | 28 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Whitehall, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357559716
Day trips start here
- Lake George · 2 mi
- Crown Point · 26 mi
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