Honness Mountain
Honness Mountain rises to 276 m in New York. South Beacon Mountain stands 491 m to the southwest, 5.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Douglas Phillips Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34922939, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 276 m
How to reach it
- 16.2 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Pinnacle Rock · 22 mi
- High Exposure · 22 mi
- Thurston Rock · 22 mi
- Hayes Lookout · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Watch Hill: 1.5 mi
- Round Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Osborne Hill: 2.5 mi
- Shenandoah Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Bald Hill: 3.5 mi
- Douglas Phillips Park: 0.8 mi
- Doug Phillips Park: 0.9 mi
- Sarah Taylor Park (outer): 1.2 mi
- Sarah Taylor Park: 1.5 mi
- Geering Park: 2.7 mi
- Thayer Statue: 10.7 mi
- General Patton: 10.8 mi
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower: 10.8 mi
- Washington Monument: 10.8 mi
- Day Game: 12.2 mi
- The Mt. Beacon Eight: 3.7 mi
- Sgt. Mark C. Palmateer Memorial Park: 4.1 mi
- American revolution signal Beacon monument: 5.2 mi
- Beacon Hill Incline Railway Powerhouse: 5.5 mi
- City of Beacon War Memorial: 5.7 mi
- Taconic Unit: 3.9 mi
- Stonykill Environmental Education Center: 4.1 mi
- Knapp Road Unit: 5.2 mi
- West Branch Headwaters Unit: 5.5 mi
- Farmers Mills Unit: 6.3 mi
- Van Wyck Homestead Museum: 1.4 mi
- Great Buddha Hall: 4.8 mi
- Mesier Homestead and Museum: 5.4 mi
- Dia:Beacon: 6.5 mi
- Magazzino: 7.5 mi
- Kaal Rock: 12.6 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 13.2 mi
- Hell Hole: 15.8 mi
- Bard Rock: 19.3 mi
- Indian Rock: 21.4 mi
- Canopus Beach: 4.6 mi
- Mahopac Hills Beach: 11.4 mi
- Berean Park Beach: 14.2 mi
- Tonetta Lake Beach: 15.1 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 19.4 mi
- Haldane School Garden: 8.9 mi
- Boscobel Gardens: 9.1 mi
- Vassar College Community Gardens: 10.2 mi
- Cut Garden: 10.4 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 10.7 mi
- Watchtower Educational Center: 15.1 mi
- Timp-Torne Trail: 18.1 mi
- Dunderberg Spiral Railway: 18.3 mi
- Ulster County Fair: 18.8 mi
- Huguenot Street Historic District: 19.1 mi
- LG waterfall: 10.4 mi
- Upper Falls: 17.2 mi
- Lower Falls: 17.2 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 18.3 mi
- Mossy Brook Waterfall: 23.2 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 7.3 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 7.4 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 20.3 mi
- Wallkill Rest Area: 22.7 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 4.9 mi
- Bergfield Picnic Site: 23.6 mi
- Pell Hill: 24.0 mi
- Dicktown: 6.0 mi
- Doodletown: 17.6 mi
- Trapps Mountain Hamlet Historic District: 22.9 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 20.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of Honness Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Beacon Mountain | SW 230° | 491 m | 5.4 mi |
| North Beacon Mountain | SW 235° | 465 m | 5.2 mi |
| Bald Hill | SW 234° | 456 m | 3.5 mi |
| Lambs Hill | SW 233° | 454 m | 4.2 mi |
| Bull Hill | SW 217° | 433 m | 8.0 mi |
| Crows Nest | SW 216° | 429 m | 10.5 mi |
| Black Rock | SW 224° | 424 m | 11.8 mi |
| Butter Hill | SW 225° | 420 m | 10.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:52 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:45 | 16:29 |
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 | 27 | 29 | 38 | 49 | 60 | 68 | 74 | 72 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 32 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Poughkeepsie AP, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 953154 — Honness Mountain, Dutchess County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357565340
Day trips start here
- Cold Spring · 9 mi
- Putnam County · 9 mi
- Highlands · 14 mi
- Stony Point · 22 mi
- Croton-on-Hudson · 23 mi
- Briarcliff Manor · 26 mi
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