Kempshall Mountain
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Kempshall Mountain rises to 1,021 m in New York. Santanoni Peak stands 1,401 m to the east-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Blueberry Mountain, a peak 1.4 miles away. Adirondack Trail passes 5.8 miles off.
The story
Kempshall Mountain is a 3,350-foot-tall (1,020 m) mountain located in Adirondack Mountains of New York. It is located in the northwest of the hamlet of Long Lake in Hamilton County. In 1918, a 35-foot-tall (11 m) Aermotor LS40 tower was built on the mountain for fire lookout purposes. Due to aerial detection being used, the tower ceased fire lookout operations at the end of the 1971 season. The tower was later removed, and portions of the tower along with the tower from West Mountain were used to build the tower that is at the Essex County Historical Museum in Elizabethtown.
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Wikidata Q49041166, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1021 m
How to reach it
- 5.8 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 2.8 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 12.6 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
- 14.1 mi off the Olympic Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Balfour Lake overlook · 19 mi
- view · 20 mi
- Viewpoint to East · 23 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Jumping Complex K-120 Meter Jump Observation Deck · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Blueberry Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Platt Hill: 1.7 mi
- Landing Hill: 1.9 mi
- Buck Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Windfall Mountain: 3.8 mi
- Long Lake Town Beach: 5.9 mi
- Town of Long Lake Municipal Park: 5.9 mi
- Mt Sabattis Town Park: 6.2 mi
- Flanders Park: 15.7 mi
- Byron Park: 17.1 mi
- Upper Falls: 8.1 mi
- Millers Falls: 8.2 mi
- Raquette Falls: 8.4 mi
- Lower Falls: 8.5 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 10.8 mi
- Long Lake Boat Tours: 5.8 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 8.7 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 8.7 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 17.8 mi
- Raquette Lake Navigation Co.: 21.9 mi
- Pendleton: 6.7 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 14.0 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 17.4 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 18.0 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 19.4 mi
- DEC Little Tupper Lake Headquarters: 11.8 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 12.3 mi
- DEC Little Tupper Lake Headquarters: 12.6 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 14.1 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 15.5 mi
- Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake: 11.9 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 14.6 mi
- Tupper Lake History Museum: 15.2 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 23.1 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 23.5 mi
- Blue Mountain Lake Beach: 12.8 mi
- Silver Beach: 19.5 mi
- Long Beach: 22.7 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 22.7 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 24.8 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 13.6 mi
- Wallface: 16.5 mi
- The Crags: 20.6 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 21.9 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 10.8 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 23.9 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 16.2 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 24.0 mi
- Rafting: 16.8 mi
- Whitewater rafting: 24.1 mi
- Tahawus: 13.8 mi
- Snowy Mountain Trail Parking: 22.3 mi
- Iron Cross: 22.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.6 miles of Kempshall Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santanoni Peak | ENE 67° | 1,401 m | 10.6 mi |
| Panther Peak | ENE 62° | 1,358 m | 11.0 mi |
| Seward Mountain | NE 34° | 1,319 m | 11.3 mi |
| Donaldson Mountain | NNE 33° | 1,238 m | 10.7 mi |
| Seymour Mountain | NE 40° | 1,236 m | 12.0 mi |
| Mount Emmons | NE 34° | 1,226 m | 10.0 mi |
| Couchsachraga Peak | ENE 59° | 1,157 m | 9.7 mi |
| Blue Mountain | SSW 199° | 1,143 m | 11.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 20:00 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:35 | 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 | 15 | 17 | 25 | 39 | 52 | 61 | 65 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newcomb, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 954487 — Kempshall Mountain, Hamilton County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357567808
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