Hour Pond Mountain
Hour Pond Mountain rises to 868 m in New York. Gore Mountain stands 1,086 m to the east-southeast, 6.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Peaked Mountain, a peak 1.1 miles away. Central Adirondack Trail passes 3.5 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34824267, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 868 m
How to reach it
- 3.5 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
- 6.8 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 8.4 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 22.6 mi off the Dude Ranch Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint to East · 9 mi
- Balfour Lake overlook · 12 mi
- River Overlook · 18 mi
- Summit View · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Peaked Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Little Thirteenth Lake Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Slide Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Big Thirteenth Lake Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Bullhead Mountain: 2.2 mi
- OK Slip Falls: 6.5 mi
- Beaver Brook Waterfall: 8.6 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 8.6 mi
- Square Falls: 9.3 mi
- Dunkley Falls: 14.0 mi
- Byron Park: 6.8 mi
- Courtney Park: 11.9 mi
- shuffle board: 18.2 mi
- Town of Horicon: 20.5 mi
- Bandstand Park: 21.4 mi
- Chimney Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Gore Mt. Mineral Shop: 5.1 mi
- Tannery Pond Community Association: 8.6 mi
- Natural Stone Bridge & Caves: 15.3 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 17.1 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 7.8 mi
- Long Beach: 7.8 mi
- Grunblatt Memorial Beach: 8.4 mi
- Blue Mountain Lake Beach: 17.0 mi
- Park beach: 21.4 mi
- Hudson Gorge Primitive Area: 5.0 mi
- Chatiemac Lake Primitive Area: 7.5 mi
- Dug Mountain Primitive Area: 11.7 mi
- Forks Mountain Primitive Area: 17.2 mi
- Wakely Mountain Primitive Area: 18.0 mi
- paint mine: 14.0 mi
- Old Crane Mt Fire Tower Location: 15.1 mi
- Pendleton: 18.0 mi
- Bandstand: 21.4 mi
- Sugar Shack Ruins: 23.5 mi
- North Creek Depot Museum: 8.3 mi
- Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake: 17.6 mi
- Speculator Historical Museum: 18.1 mi
- Town of Horicon Museum: 20.7 mi
- Moxham Point: 9.9 mi
- Wayout Wall: 13.7 mi
- Beaverview Wall: 14.8 mi
- Gull Pond Cliff: 23.9 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 9.0 mi
- Jessup River Day Use Area: 14.3 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 21.5 mi
- Whitewater rafting: 5.7 mi
- Rafting: 7.7 mi
- Rt 30 Alien: 13.1 mi
- Iron Cross: 23.2 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 21.4 mi
- Tahawus: 23.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of Hour Pond Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gore Mountain | ESE 117° | 1,086 m | 6.0 mi |
| Puffer Mountain | SSW 212° | 1,048 m | 4.1 mi |
| Bullhead Mountain | SW 222° | 1,042 m | 2.2 mi |
| Eleventh Mountain | SSE 148° | 1,004 m | 8.0 mi |
| Pete Gay Mountain | ESE 105° | 944 m | 5.8 mi |
| County Line Mountain | SSW 198° | 939 m | 7.4 mi |
| Humphrey Mountain | SW 217° | 907 m | 6.8 mi |
| Kunjamuk Mountain | WSW 243° | 905 m | 7.2 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 | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 15:36 | 16:23 |
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, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357565569
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