Joppenbergh Mountain
Joppenbergh Mountain rises to 147 m in New York. Ashokan High Point stands 939 m to the west-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Binnewater Kiln, a historic site 0.2 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway runs past it.
The story
Joppenbergh Mountain is a nearly 500-foot (152 m) mountain in Rosendale Village, a hamlet in the town of Rosendale, in Ulster County, New York. The mountain is composed of a carbonate bedrock overlain by glacially deposited material. It was named after Rosendale's founder, Jacob Rutsen, and mined throughout the late 19th century for dolomite that was used in the manufacture of natural cement. Extensive mining caused a large cave-in on December 19, 1899, that destroyed equipment and collapsed shafts within Joppenbergh. Though it was feared that several workers had been killed, the collapse happened while all the miners were outside, eating lunch. Since the collapse, the mountain has experienced shaking and periodic rockfalls. During the late 1930s, Joppenbergh became the site of several ski jumping competitions, which continued until the early 1940s. The original slope was designed by Harold Schelderup for Rosendale's first competition in 1937; Schelderup himself skied that July, after the slope was coated with borax for a summer competition. Several Olympic skiers participated in the competitions. Skiing began again in the 1960s, when a new slope was built on the mountain, and the revived competitions continued until 1971. The town of Rosendale considered buying land near the mountain in 2003 for parking, and the following year, the town leased a tract of land to build a municipal parking lot. Joppenbergh was put up for sale in 2009, and in March 2011, the Open Space Institute (OSI) offered to purchase the entire 117-acre (47 ha) property and sell it to the town. The Rosendale town board initially agreed to the deal the following month, with payment planned to come from a surplus fund. That June, however, the board found that the surplus fund had already been exhausted and could not cover the entire cost of the purchase. Ultimately, the OSI completed its purchase of Joppenbergh in October 2011, without town money.
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Wikidata Q6276216, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 147 m
How to reach it
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 1 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 7 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 7 mi
- Hayes Lookout · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Fly Mountain: 4.0 mi
- Bonticou Crag: 4.3 mi
- Pink Hill: 4.3 mi
- Guyot Hill: 4.7 mi
- Shaupeneak Mountain: 4.9 mi
- Hardenbergh Park: 0.3 mi
- Veteran's Park: 0.6 mi
- Rutsen Park - Rosendale Recreation Center: 0.6 mi
- Perrines Covered Bridge County Park: 2.7 mi
- Tongore Park: 3.4 mi
- Binnewater Kiln: 0.2 mi
- Kiln: 0.7 mi
- M. E. Church: 4.7 mi
- Fountain: 4.7 mi
- New Paltz: 6.6 mi
- High Falls Waterfall: 2.6 mi
- Mossy Brook Waterfall: 4.5 mi
- Coward's Falls: 6.7 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 8.1 mi
- Saw Mill Falls: 10.2 mi
- Giant's Ledges Pocket Park: 0.8 mi
- Snyder Mine Drive Parcel: 1.2 mi
- Waterworks (Mohonk Preserve): 1.8 mi
- Walter Williams Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Ulster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 3.0 mi
- Gnome Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Outback Slab: 5.4 mi
- Indian Rock: 6.8 mi
- Skytop: 6.8 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 7.0 mi
- Snyder Carriage and Sleigh Museum: 0.7 mi
- Widow Jane Mine Museum: 0.7 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 2.5 mi
- D & H Canal Museum and Visitor Center: 2.5 mi
- Hurley Heritage Museum: 5.6 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 6.9 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 7.5 mi
- SUNY New Paltz Student Garden: 7.9 mi
- Vanderbilt Gardens: 8.3 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 9.3 mi
- Large Hybrid, 1971: 7.4 mi
- Franlin Delano Roosevelt: 9.5 mi
- Winston Chruchill: 9.5 mi
- Frankiln Delano Roosevelt: 9.5 mi
- Gnome Chomsky: 9.7 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 3.4 mi
- Private Beach: 6.8 mi
- Walnut Beach: 7.1 mi
- Flint Beach: 7.2 mi
- Esopus Meadows Beach: 7.2 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 4.9 mi
- Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 5.9 mi
- Historic Huguenot District: 6.5 mi
- Huguenot Street Historic District: 6.5 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 7.3 mi
- Bear Wallow: 11.7 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 12.8 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 18.4 mi
- Box Spring: 20.3 mi
- Piped Spring: 21.6 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 19.8 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 22.5 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 17.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.5 miles of Joppenbergh Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashokan High Point | WNW 298° | 939 m | 11.7 mi |
| Southeast Little Rocky | WNW 291° | 922 m | 13.1 mi |
| Little Rocky | WNW 292° | 917 m | 13.6 mi |
| Mombaccus Mountain | WNW 291° | 865 m | 12.4 mi |
| Hilltop | SE 131° | 862 m | 7.8 mi |
| Little High Point | WNW 298° | 854 m | 11.3 mi |
| Breath Hill | WNW 295° | 783 m | 14.9 mi |
| Hanover Mountain | WNW 302° | 777 m | 14.8 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 | 19:53 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 15:44 | 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 | 26 | 29 | 37 | 49 | 60 | 69 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 53 | 42 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mohonk Lake, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/5605550237
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