Friday Mountain
Friday Mountain rises to 1,125 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the west-northwest, 1.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Dink, a peak 0.7 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 14 miles off.
The story
Friday Mountain, located in Ulster County, New York is part the Catskill Mountains. It is flanked to the north by Cornell Mountain, and to the south by Balsam Cap. The southeast side of Friday Mountain drains into Maltby Hollow Brook, thence into Bush Kill, the Ashokan Reservoir, Esopus Creek, the Hudson River, and into New York Bay. The northeast side of Friday Mtn. drains into Wittenberg Brook, thence into Maltby Hollow Brook. The western slopes of Friday Mtn. drain into the headwaters of the East Branch of the Neversink River, thence into the Delaware River, and into Delaware Bay. Friday Mountain is one of the 35 peaks in the Catskills greater than 3,500 feet elevation, and is a required ascent for membership in the Catskill Mountain 3500 Club. The ascent involves bushwhacking as there is no trail to the summit. Friday Mountain is within the Slide Mountain Wilderness of New York's Catskill State Park.
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Wikidata Q5503503, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1125 m
How to reach it
- 14.2 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 16 mi
- White Dot · 18 mi
- Panther Rock · 18 mi
- Compass Rock · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Dink: 0.7 mi
- Balsam Cap: 0.8 mi
- Cornell Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Rocky Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Slide Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Cornell Falls: 1.7 mi
- Otter Falls: 4.2 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 5.1 mi
- Vernooy Kill Falls: 8.0 mi
- High Falls: 8.4 mi
- Future DEC: 3.1 mi
- Oak Ridge Unit: 3.5 mi
- Watson Hollow Unit: 3.7 mi
- Bushkill Fishing Unit: 4.4 mi
- Woodland Valley Unit: 5.0 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 4.5 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 5.5 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 6.8 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 7.0 mi
- Parish Field: 7.2 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 1.4 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 3.0 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 5.8 mi
- Forstmann Castle: 7.0 mi
- ruins: 7.7 mi
- Cornell Crack: 1.1 mi
- Samuels Point: 2.8 mi
- Giant Ledge: 3.9 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 5.1 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 10.9 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 7.0 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 9.1 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 13.0 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 14.7 mi
- Hurley Heritage Museum: 16.0 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 11.2 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 13.8 mi
- Scuba Diving Access Area: 19.0 mi
- Lake Minnewaska Beach: 19.1 mi
- Lake Awosting Beach: 19.9 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 5.1 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 6.9 mi
- Winnisook: 9.1 mi
- Gnome Chomsky: 14.7 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 16.1 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 18.4 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 19.7 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 19.9 mi
- SUNY New Paltz Student Garden: 22.5 mi
- Formal Gardens: 22.8 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 5.7 mi
- Rail Explorers: 7.0 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 15.7 mi
- Overturned 1938 Truck: 18.3 mi
- Swimming Hole: 18.8 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 3.0 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 5.1 mi
- Bear Wallow: 5.7 mi
- Bear Wallow: 5.7 mi
- Piped Spring: 8.4 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 14.4 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 16.6 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 22.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.6 miles of Friday Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | WNW 303° | 1,266 m | 1.5 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain | WNW 288° | 1,180 m | 9.0 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain - South Peak | WNW 286° | 1,175 m | 8.8 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | NNE 18° | 1,174 m | 1.0 mi |
| Table Mountain | SW 228° | 1,165.86 m | 3.0 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | SW 218° | 1,164.03 m | 3.0 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | NNE 28° | 1,152.75 m | 1.6 mi |
| Panther Mountain | NNW 341° | 1,135.08 m | 5.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:45 | 16:30 |
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 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 950728 — Friday Mountain, Ulster County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357560681
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