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First Peak

First Peak, seen from above at true elevation

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

Coordinates43.59201, -73.60428

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • 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
Historic sites: 36
  • 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
Nature reserves: 31
Cliffs: 27
  • 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
Attractions: 21
  • 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
Museums: 19
  • 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
Picnic sites: 12
Beaches: 11
  • 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
Waterfalls: 8
Gardens: 6
  • 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
Artworks: 2
  • Chiseled Slate monoliths: 19.2 mi
  • Mandala II: 21.2 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Vermont Welcome Center: 15.6 mi
Springs: 1
  • 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.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Black MountainENE 75°805 m3.8 mi
Erebus MountainESE 113°765 m2.9 mi
Sleeping BeautySE 131°715 m3.6 mi
Buck MountainS 175°711 m5.0 mi
Catamount MountainNNE 19°702 m7.0 mi
Fivemile MountainNNE 22°688 m3.6 mi
Huckleberry MountainNNE 23°680 m3.9 mi
Pilot KnobS 181°658 m7.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:2919:07
June solstice05:1419:5620:40
September equinox06:4218:1618:54
December solstice07:2515:3416:21

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F212333475968727163513928
Precip in3.02.63.03.33.34.44.44.53.64.13.03.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Whitehall, 10 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357559716

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