Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain rises to 754 m in New York. Ampersand Mountain stands 1,022 m to the east-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Floodwood Mountain, a peak 1.8 miles away. Olympic Trail passes 5.1 miles off. 118 named places lie within 25 miles, 57 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in New York, United States of America.
Wikidata Q34825035, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 754 m
How to reach it
- 5.1 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 6.3 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 24.2 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 25.0 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
Overlooks nearby
118 named places within 25 miles
- Floodwood Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Mount Matumbla: 4.8 mi
- Long Pond Mountain: 5.6 mi
- East Pond Mountain: 5.7 mi
- Hardwood Hills: 6.2 mi
- Flanders Park: 6.5 mi
- The Great Lawn: 13.9 mi
- Town of Harrietstown Bike Park: 16.7 mi
- Brighton Memorial Park: 16.9 mi
- Ampersand Park: 17.1 mi
- Augerhole Falls: 7.6 mi
- Jamestown Falls: 11.4 mi
- High Falls: 12.2 mi
- Lower Falls: 14.5 mi
- Raquette Falls: 14.5 mi
- Tupper Lake History Museum: 6.8 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 7.3 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 17.6 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 17.9 mi
- Six Nations Indian Museum: 22.3 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 11.9 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 12.6 mi
- DEC Little Tupper Lake Headquarters: 18.8 mi
- Snow Bowl State Forest: 21.1 mi
- Catherineville State Forest: 24.5 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 6.0 mi
- Peace Garden: 13.9 mi
- Goolds Garden: 14.6 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 17.1 mi
- Stacy Bluff: 16.8 mi
- Hawk Ledge: 24.2 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 24.5 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 22.7 mi
- Kate Smith Memorial: 24.9 mi
- World War Memorial: 24.9 mi
- Saint Regis Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area: 9.8 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 19.3 mi
- Cranberry Lake Day Use Area on eastern Fred Island: 21.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Iron Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ampersand Mountain | ESE 113° | 1,022 m | 15.2 mi |
| Mount Morris | S 178° | 950 m | 11.1 mi |
| Stony Creek Mountain | ESE 122° | 910 m | 12.8 mi |
| Saint Regis Mountain | NE 52° | 865 m | 9.8 mi |
| Mount Matumbla | WSW 237° | 818 m | 4.8 mi |
| Arab Mountain | SSW 212° | 772 m | 9.4 mi |
| Rice Mountain | NNE 27° | 768 m | 14.9 mi |
| Boot Bay Mountain | E 98° | 762 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:32 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 20:02 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:19 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 15:34 | 16:22 |
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 | 15 | 17 | 25 | 39 | 53 | 61 | 66 | 64 | 57 | 45 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tupper Lake Sunmount, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 953774 — Iron Mountain, Franklin County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357566293
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