Graham Mountain
Graham Mountain rises to 1,174 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the east-southeast, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is ETS Relay (Ruin), a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 22 miles off.
The story
Graham Mountain is the seventh highest of the Catskill High Peaks and the highest privately owned mountain in the range. It is located in the town of Hardenburgh, New York, United States. Its summit is unique in the Catskills for its pygmy hardwood forest cover and absence of evergreen boreal species that normally dominate at that elevation in the range, despite the presence of balsam fir on the slopes below the summit. In the early 1960s a relay station was built there for Instructional Television, a predecessor to today's Public Broadcasting Service. The relay station was abandoned after a few years and its ruins can be seen from the slopes and summits of neighboring peaks. Graham is within the Catskill Park. Only part of it is in the state-owned Forest Preserve; the summit and the most common access route are owned by descendants of railroad magnate Jay Gould, a native of the region, who closed the peak to the public indefinitely in January 2021. Prior to then, a successful ascent was required for membership in the Catskill Mountain 3500 Club.
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Wikidata Q5593091, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1174 m
How to reach it
- 21.5 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Panther Rock · 24 mi
- High Falls · 26 mi
- Compass Rock · 27 mi
- Beacon Hill · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Doubletop Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Doubletop Mountain - South Peak: 1.6 mi
- Bullet Hole: 2.3 mi
- Balsam Lake Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Eagle Mountain: 2.6 mi
- McKinley Hollow Unit: 4.9 mi
- Oliverea Unit: 5.5 mi
- Indian Grove Unit: 7.0 mi
- Red Hill Knolls Unit: 7.9 mi
- Little Red Kill Unit: 8.4 mi
- Big Indian Park: 6.9 mi
- Smith Park: 7.5 mi
- Fleischmann Athletic Park: 8.1 mi
- Glenbrook Park: 9.6 mi
- Lower Birch Creek Trailhead of the Shandaken Wild Forest: 9.9 mi
- High Falls: 4.2 mi
- Otter Falls: 6.7 mi
- Cornell Falls: 9.8 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 10.6 mi
- Tompkins Falls: 11.3 mi
- ETS Relay (Ruin): 0.0 mi
- Forstmann Castle: 4.3 mi
- Coykendall Lodge (Ruin): 6.8 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 7.3 mi
- Pine Hill Honor Roll: 7.4 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 8.1 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 12.7 mi
- Liberty Museum and Arts Center: 19.4 mi
- Zadock Pratt Museum: 20.0 mi
- Pratt Museum: 20.0 mi
- Giant Ledge: 7.9 mi
- Cornell Crack: 10.2 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 12.4 mi
- Samuels Point: 12.7 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 19.4 mi
- Piped Spring: 6.4 mi
- Piped Spring: 8.9 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 8.9 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 14.5 mi
- Bear Wallow: 15.5 mi
- Winnisook: 6.9 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 12.2 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 14.9 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 19.7 mi
- Beamoc Trout: 20.1 mi
- Rail Explorers: 12.7 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 13.5 mi
- VanTran Covered Bridge: 16.9 mi
- Pratt Rock: 19.8 mi
- Overturned 1938 Truck: 23.9 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 7.2 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 23.9 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 19.6 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 19.7 mi
- Roscoe: 18.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Graham Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | ESE 108° | 1,266 m | 8.8 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain | SE 127° | 1,180 m | 1.3 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain - South Peak | SE 132° | 1,175 m | 1.6 mi |
| Table Mountain | SE 127° | 1,165.86 m | 9.3 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | SE 127° | 1,164.03 m | 9.8 mi |
| Balsam Lake Mountain | WNW 281° | 1,136 m | 2.4 mi |
| Panther Mountain | E 81° | 1,135.08 m | 8.0 mi |
| Lone Mountain | ESE 121° | 1,127.76 m | 9.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:34 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:56 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:21 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 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, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 973350 — Graham Mountain, Ulster County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357598523
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