High Tor
High Tor rises to 244 m in New York. Rockhouse Mountain stands 387 m to the west-northwest, 7.5 miles off. The nearest named place is South Mountain, a peak less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 12 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34922347, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 244 m
How to reach it
- 11.8 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 13.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 17.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 24.1 mi off the Western Highlands Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Pinwheel Vista · 25 mi
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Haverstraw African American Memorial Park: 0.8 mi
- Community Park and Sandpit: 1.4 mi
- Historical Society of Rockland County Grounds: 1.6 mi
- Zukor Park: 1.6 mi
- Kennedy-Dells Park: 1.9 mi
- History Center Museum: 1.6 mi
- Blauvelt Homestead: 1.6 mi
- KinoSaito Arts Center: 4.5 mi
- Old Croton Aqueduct Sing Sing Kill Weir Chamber: 5.5 mi
- Sing Sing Prison Museum: 5.6 mi
- Van Cortlandt Manor: 4.6 mi
- Timp-Torne Trail: 6.5 mi
- Dunderberg Spiral Railway: 6.5 mi
- Philipsburg Manor: 8.6 mi
- Headless Horseman Bridge Sign: 8.6 mi
- South Mountain: 0.0 mi
- Little Tor: 1.3 mi
- Treason Hill: 2.2 mi
- Collaberg Mountain: 3.8 mi
- Prickly Pear Hill: 4.0 mi
- Treason Site: 1.2 mi
- Vickers & Sons Bell: 1.6 mi
- Kevin Landau Memorial: 3.0 mi
- New City Welcome area and fountain: 3.0 mi
- Fountain: 3.6 mi
- Oscawana Island Nature Preserve: 3.5 mi
- Gurnee Park: 3.6 mi
- George's Island Park: 3.6 mi
- Graff Sanctuary: 3.7 mi
- Oscawana Preserve: 3.7 mi
- Hell Hole: 9.6 mi
- Pulpit: 9.8 mi
- Raven's Rock: 10.0 mi
- Lemon Squeezer: 10.0 mi
- Claudius Smith Den: 10.6 mi
- Ossining Organic Community Garden: 5.8 mi
- 9/11 Memorial Garden: 7.2 mi
- Herbert Kurz Peace Garden: 7.3 mi
- Memorial Park Butterfly Garden: 7.4 mi
- Peabody Monarch Garden: 8.1 mi
- Brickhead Truth: 0.4 mi
- River Arch: 5.3 mi
- Arc: 6.8 mi
- Tappan Zee: 7.6 mi
- Approach: 7.7 mi
- Brick Beach: 4.0 mi
- Ten Eycks Beach: 4.1 mi
- Old Sebago Beach: 8.7 mi
- New Sebago Beach: 8.9 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach Club: 17.9 mi
- Kakiat Park: 8.3 mi
- Reservable Picnic Area: 14.3 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 16.1 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 16.7 mi
- Area B: 17.8 mi
- MacMillan Brook Falls: 14.2 mi
- Mine Hole Falls: 18.1 mi
- Farms Falls: 18.7 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 19.6 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 20.2 mi
- Doodletown: 8.0 mi
- Monksville: 18.0 mi
- Dicktown: 22.3 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 24.4 mi
- The Silver Spring: 24.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.8 miles of High Tor. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockhouse Mountain | WNW 299° | 387 m | 7.5 mi |
| Breakneck Mountain | W 277° | 384 m | 7.0 mi |
| Jackie Jones Mountain | WNW 294° | 383 m | 6.1 mi |
| West Mountain | NNW 340° | 382 m | 7.1 mi |
| Ladentown Mountain | W 279° | 378 m | 6.5 mi |
| Squirrel Swamp Mountain | W 270° | 378 m | 6.9 mi |
| Big Hill | WNW 288° | 374 m | 6.3 mi |
| Letterrock Mountain | NW 317° | 371 m | 7.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 19:51 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:46 | 16:31 |
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 | 26 | 28 | 36 | 48 | 58 | 67 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Yorktown HTS 1W, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 952766 — High Tor, Rockland County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357564446
Day trips start here
- New City · 3 mi
- Croton-on-Hudson · 4 mi
- Rockland County · 4 mi
- Stony Point · 4 mi
- Ossining · 6 mi
- Briarcliff Manor · 7 mi
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