Horseshoe Mountain
Horseshoe Mountain rises to 841 m in New York. Puffer Mountain stands 1,048 m to the north-northeast, 3.2 miles off. The nearest named place is County Line Mountain, a peak 0.9 miles away. Adirondack Trail passes 8.0 miles off.
The story
Horseshoe Mountain is a summit located in Adirondack Mountains of New York located in the Town of Wells northeast of the hamlet of Wells.
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Wikidata Q34874296, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 841 m
How to reach it
- 8.0 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 10.6 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
- 12.7 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 20.7 mi off the Dude Ranch Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint to East · 8 mi
- River Overlook · 11 mi
- Balfour Lake overlook · 20 mi
- Summit View · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- County Line Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Humphrey Mountain: 1.6 mi
- South Pond Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Long Pine Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Hayden Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Square Falls: 5.4 mi
- Beaver Brook Waterfall: 7.8 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 7.8 mi
- Christine Falls: 8.5 mi
- Austin Falls: 8.6 mi
- shuffle board: 11.0 mi
- Byron Park: 11.5 mi
- Parker's Corner Park: 16.1 mi
- Courtney Park: 17.9 mi
- Poplar Point Day Use Area: 20.8 mi
- Chimney Mountain: 4.9 mi
- Gore Mt. Mineral Shop: 9.3 mi
- Mini Route 66: 10.9 mi
- Tannery Pond Community Association: 12.9 mi
- Natural Stone Bridge & Caves: 20.4 mi
- Dug Mountain Primitive Area: 6.4 mi
- Chatiemac Lake Primitive Area: 9.2 mi
- Forks Mountain Primitive Area: 10.0 mi
- Hudson Gorge Primitive Area: 12.2 mi
- Wakely Mountain Primitive Area: 17.0 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 7.1 mi
- Long Beach: 7.2 mi
- Grunblatt Memorial Beach: 12.5 mi
- Blue Mountain Lake Beach: 19.7 mi
- Morey Stein Beach: 22.9 mi
- Wayout Wall: 12.4 mi
- Beaverview Wall: 13.2 mi
- Moxham Point: 15.7 mi
- Echo Cliff: 22.3 mi
- Eagle Bluff: 23.2 mi
- paint mine: 13.1 mi
- Old Crane Mt Fire Tower Location: 13.7 mi
- Sugar Shack Ruins: 22.7 mi
- Gate House Ruins: 23.6 mi
- Pendleton: 24.4 mi
- Speculator Historical Museum: 11.0 mi
- North Creek Depot Museum: 12.9 mi
- Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake: 20.5 mi
- Town of Horicon Museum: 24.0 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 7.0 mi
- Jessup River Day Use Area: 8.8 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 24.5 mi
- Rt 30 Alien: 8.9 mi
- Iron Cross: 22.5 mi
- Rafting: 11.9 mi
- Whitewater rafting: 12.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.7 miles of Horseshoe Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puffer Mountain | NNE 16° | 1,048 m | 3.2 mi |
| Bullhead Mountain | NNE 17° | 1,042 m | 5.2 mi |
| Eleventh Mountain | E 91° | 1,004 m | 7.3 mi |
| South Pond Mountain | S 185° | 993 m | 1.8 mi |
| Dug Mountain | WSW 250° | 980 m | 6.8 mi |
| County Line Mountain | ESE 114° | 939 m | 0.9 mi |
| Humphrey Mountain | NW 321° | 907 m | 1.6 mi |
| Kunjamuk Mountain | NW 315° | 905 m | 4.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:31 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:59 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:18 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 15:37 | 16:24 |
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 | 16 | 17 | 26 | 39 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Indian Lake 2SW, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 953243 — Horseshoe Mountain, Hamilton County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357565507
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