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Fly Mountain

Fly Mountain, seen from above at true elevation

Fly Mountain rises to 99 m in New York. Overlook Mountain stands 956 m to the north-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Rondout Creek Waterway Access, a park 0.6 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 3.6 miles off.

About

The story

mountain in United States of America

Wikidata Q34869285, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
99 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.89176, -74.03820

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Rondout Creek Waterway Access: 0.6 mi
  • Parks of Study and Reflection - Hudson Valley: 1.2 mi
  • Cas Landi Park: 1.2 mi
  • Red Fox Ravine: 2.2 mi
  • Lawton Park: 2.3 mi
Peaks
  • Pink Hill: 0.8 mi
  • Golden Hill: 2.0 mi
  • Hussey Hill: 2.3 mi
  • Joppenbergh Mountain: 4.0 mi
  • Prospect Hill: 4.0 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Waterfalls
  • Coward's Falls: 3.7 mi
  • High Falls Waterfall: 6.5 mi
  • Mossy Brook Waterfall: 8.5 mi
  • Winchell's Falls: 8.7 mi
  • Glenerie Falls: 9.3 mi
Cliffs: 41
Museums: 37
Artworks: 24
  • Frankiln Delano Roosevelt: 10.1 mi
  • Franlin Delano Roosevelt: 10.1 mi
  • Winston Chruchill: 10.1 mi
  • Large Hybrid, 1971: 10.8 mi
  • Wishbone: 10.9 mi
Gardens: 23
  • Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Rondout Community Garden: 3.6 mi
  • Vanderbilt Gardens: 8.4 mi
  • Roosevelt Home Garden: 10.0 mi
  • The Wild Garden: 10.0 mi
Beaches: 20
  • Kingston Point Beach: 4.6 mi
  • Flint Beach: 5.0 mi
  • Esopus Meadows Beach: 5.1 mi
  • Walnut Beach: 5.1 mi
  • Tongore Park Beach: 5.4 mi
Attractions: 12
  • Hudson River Cruises: 3.4 mi
  • Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 4.4 mi
  • Pompey’s Cave: 8.7 mi
  • Historic Huguenot District: 9.9 mi
  • Huguenot Street Historic District: 10.0 mi
Springs: 7
  • Bear Wallow: 13.1 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 13.1 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 14.3 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 19.7 mi
  • Devil's Acre spring: 21.4 mi
Picnic sites: 3
Lighthouses: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.2 miles of Fly Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Overlook MountainNNW 348°956 m13.7 mi
Plattekill MountainN 351°942 m15.1 mi
Ashokan High PointW 280°939 m13.0 mi
Southeast Little RockyW 276°922 m14.8 mi
Little RockyW 277°917 m15.2 mi
Mombaccus MountainW 275°865 m14.1 mi
HilltopSSE 158°862 m9.0 mi
Little High PointW 280°854 m12.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2219:5320:36
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:2115:4416:29

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634465866717062503930
Precip in4.13.14.13.93.84.14.64.94.35.33.64.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rhinebeck 4SE, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 950340 — Fly Mountain, Ulster County, New York.

OpenStreetMap element node/357560041

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