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Hanover Mountain

Hanover Mountain, seen from above at true elevation

Hanover Mountain rises to 777 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the northwest, 3.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Future DEC, a nature reserve 0.9 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 12 miles off.

About

The story

Hanover Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York west of West Shokan. Little Rocky is located south, and Balsam Cap is located northwest of Hanover Mountain.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wikidata Q34823241, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
777 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.96120, -74.32959

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Lester S. Davis Park: 2.6 mi
  • Grant Avery Park: 5.1 mi
  • Catskills Visitor Center: 5.5 mi
  • Tongore Park: 6.5 mi
  • Brown's Station: 6.5 mi
Waterfalls
  • Cornell Falls: 3.9 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 5.0 mi
  • Metacahonts Falls: 6.0 mi
  • Vernooy Kill Falls: 6.5 mi
  • Otter Falls: 6.7 mi
Historic sites: 58
  • John Burroughs Monument: 3.9 mi
  • Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 5.1 mi
  • ruins: 5.3 mi
  • Yale Quarry: 5.4 mi
  • J. Waldo Smith Monument: 6.1 mi
Cliffs: 42
Museums: 34
Artworks: 20
  • Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 4.1 mi
  • Shandaken Eagle: 8.3 mi
  • Winnisook: 11.5 mi
  • Gnome Chomsky: 12.4 mi
  • The Great Knot: 16.5 mi
Beaches: 19
Gardens: 18
  • Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 16.5 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 17.3 mi
  • Rondout Community Garden: 18.0 mi
  • SUNY New Paltz Student Garden: 20.1 mi
  • Formal Gardens: 21.4 mi
Attractions: 11
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 6.5 mi
  • Rail Explorers: 8.3 mi
  • Pompey’s Cave: 13.3 mi
  • Swimming Hole: 16.4 mi
  • Overturned 1938 Truck: 16.5 mi
Springs: 8
  • Keyhole Spring: 2.8 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 3.2 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 3.3 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 4.1 mi
  • Piped Spring: 9.1 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Hanover Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Slide MountainNW 312°1,266 m3.9 mi
Cornell MountainNNW 334°1,174 m3.1 mi
Table MountainW 267°1,165.86 m3.9 mi
Peekamoose MountainW 261°1,164.03 m3.6 mi
Wittenberg MountainNNW 344°1,152.75 m3.4 mi
Panther MountainNNW 333°1,135.08 m7.4 mi
Lone MountainW 280°1,127.76 m3.2 mi
Big Indian MountainWNW 301°1,127.46 m10.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3319:10
June solstice05:2319:5520:37
September equinox06:4518:2018:56
December solstice07:2315:4516:30

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F202229415360656457463626
Precip in4.73.25.14.95.06.05.25.66.26.45.45.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 952176 — Hanover Mountain, Ulster County, New York.

OpenStreetMap element node/357563446

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