Franks Hill
Franks Hill rises to 508 m in New York. Pharoah Mountain stands 772 m to the northeast, 3.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Number Seven Hill, a peak 0.3 miles away. Roosevelt-Marcy Trail passes 12 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34869808, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 508 m
How to reach it
- 12.0 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 14.6 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
- 14.8 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
- 20.2 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
Overlooks nearby
- Balfour Lake overlook · 16 mi
- Summit View · 20 mi
- Flag View · 20 mi
- limited view southeast · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Number Seven Hill: 0.3 mi
- Number Six Hill: 0.5 mi
- Orange Hill: 0.7 mi
- The Dam Hill: 1.0 mi
- Number Eight Hill: 1.1 mi
- Gull Pond Cliff: 3.1 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 9.2 mi
- Frontiertown Crags: 11.0 mi
- Campground Wall: 12.0 mi
- Cove Overlook: 12.1 mi
- Bandstand Park: 4.0 mi
- Town of Horicon: 8.0 mi
- Frontier Town Campground, Equestrian and Day Use Area: 10.6 mi
- Courtney Park: 10.9 mi
- Hague Town Beach Park: 11.2 mi
- First Brother Primitive Area: 3.9 mi
- Bald Ledge Primitive Area: 9.6 mi
- Town of North Hudson: 10.9 mi
- Godwin Preserve: 11.1 mi
- Terzian Woodlot: 12.4 mi
- Bandstand: 4.0 mi
- Liberty Monument: 14.5 mi
- Samuel De Champlain Memorial: 15.3 mi
- Bolton Veterans' Memorial: 16.1 mi
- Bolton Time Capsule: 16.2 mi
- Schroon Falls: 7.9 mi
- Uncas Falls: 12.1 mi
- Dunkley Falls: 14.1 mi
- Falls of Carrilon: 15.2 mi
- Shelving Rock Falls: 17.1 mi
- Alma Farm Park: 11.2 mi
- Picnic Island: 14.1 mi
- West Dollar Is Day Use Area: 14.6 mi
- West Dollar Island: 14.6 mi
- Little As You Were Island: 15.4 mi
- Town of Horicon Museum: 7.6 mi
- Penfield Homestead Museum: 12.9 mi
- North Creek Depot Museum: 14.9 mi
- Ticonderoga Heritage Museum: 15.2 mi
- Bolton Historical Museum: 16.3 mi
- Park beach: 4.0 mi
- Hague Town Beach: 11.2 mi
- Black Point Public Beach: 13.8 mi
- Grunblatt Memorial Beach: 15.3 mi
- Morey Stein Beach: 20.5 mi
- Natural Stone Bridge & Caves: 7.4 mi
- Tannery Pond Community Association: 14.9 mi
- Gore Mt. Mineral Shop: 18.6 mi
- Revolution Rail Co. - Thurman Station: 21.8 mi
- Lemon Fair Sculpture Park: 24.9 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 4.1 mi
- Colonial Revival King's Garden: 16.8 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 15.6 mi
- Whitewater rafting: 17.0 mi
- Tahawus: 24.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.9 miles of Franks Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharoah Mountain | NE 53° | 772 m | 3.5 mi |
| Pharaoh Mountain | NE 53° | 772 m | 3.5 mi |
| Treadway Mountain | NE 55° | 684 m | 5.7 mi |
| Barton Mountain | ESE 102° | 670 m | 6.5 mi |
| Beech Hill | WNW 291° | 664 m | 6.6 mi |
| Stevens Mountain | ESE 108° | 659 m | 4.0 mi |
| Big Clear Pond Mountain | NE 56° | 657 m | 6.6 mi |
| Ellis Mountain | E 93° | 629 m | 6.7 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 | 19:57 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:16 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:26 | 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, 22 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 950639 — Franks Hill, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357560555
Day trips start here
- Lake George · 14 mi
- Crown Point · 18 mi
- Elizabethtown · 29 mi
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