Hunter Mountain
Hunter Mountain rises to 1,228 m in New York. Black Dome stands 1,217 m to the northeast, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Devil's Acre spring, a spring 0.9 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 24 miles off.
The story
Hunter Mountain is in the towns of Hunter and Lexington, just south of the village of Hunter, in Greene County, New York, United States. At approximately 4,040 feet (1,231 m) in elevation, it is the highest peak in the county and the second-highest peak in the Catskill Mountains. While the mountain is closely associated with the eponymous ski area built around the Colonel's Chair ridge at the mountain's northwest corner, that takes up only a small portion of the mountain. The actual summit, some distance from the ski area, is graced with a fire lookout tower, the highest in the state and second-highest in the Northeast. The former road to it is open to hikers, horses (and possibly mountain bikers in the future). It is the most popular route to the mountain's summit.
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Wikidata Q5944482, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1228.34 m
How to reach it
- 23.6 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 25 mi
- White Dot · 25 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 29 mi
- Copes Lookout · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Southwest Hunter Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Colonels Chair: 1.6 mi
- East Rusk: 2.2 mi
- Rusk Mountain: 2.9 mi
- West Kill Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Diamond Notch Primitive Bicycle Corridor: 1.8 mi
- Railroad Bend Unit: 2.3 mi
- Stony Clove Unit: 2.5 mi
- Diamond Notch Unit: 2.9 mi
- Neal Road Unit: 3.5 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 5.1 mi
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 5.9 mi
- Parish Field: 7.7 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 7.9 mi
- C.D. Lane Park: 8.2 mi
- Diamond Notch Falls: 1.4 mi
- Delmura Falls: 7.6 mi
- Santa Cruz Falls: 7.6 mi
- Old Mill Falls: 8.0 mi
- Plattekill Falls: 8.1 mi
- New York State Forest Preserve Centennial: 2.0 mi
- Tory Fort: 7.3 mi
- Boarding House: 8.0 mi
- Layman's Monument: 8.3 mi
- stone house: 8.9 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 2.5 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 7.2 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 7.8 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 11.0 mi
- Zadock Pratt Museum: 14.0 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 1.5 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 8.0 mi
- Winnisook: 12.1 mi
- The Great Knot: 12.2 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 12.7 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 2.1 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 7.8 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 8.2 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 9.1 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 9.4 mi
- The Upper Garden: 17.2 mi
- The Walled Garden: 17.2 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 19.4 mi
- Rough Garden: 19.6 mi
- Ellipse: 19.6 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 12.9 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 16.1 mi
- West Landing: 18.0 mi
- South Landing: 18.1 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 18.9 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 0.9 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 9.2 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 17.5 mi
- Bear Wallow: 17.6 mi
- Bear Wallow: 17.7 mi
- Rail Explorers: 7.8 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 9.3 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 12.1 mi
- Pratt Rock: 13.4 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 22.0 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 1.9 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 2.3 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 17.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Hunter Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Dome | NE 41° | 1,217.37 m | 8.4 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | NE 37° | 1,204.87 m | 8.0 mi |
| Blackhead | NE 46° | 1,200.91 m | 8.9 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | WSW 257° | 1,186 m | 3.1 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | SE 134° | 1,168.91 m | 4.0 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | SE 128° | 1,160 m | 5.2 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | SSW 212° | 1,140 m | 1.3 mi |
| Rusk Mountain | WNW 304° | 1,123.493 m | 2.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:43 | 16:29 |
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 | 21 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 61 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 27 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 3.1 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 6.0 | 4.8 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Jewett, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357598537
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