Leather Hill
Leather Hill rises to 305 m in New York. Preston Hill stands 442 m to the north-northeast, 4.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Leather Hill Preserve, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 28 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34825929, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 305 m
How to reach it
- 28.4 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Town of Dover: 0.9 mi
- Fireman's Field: 2.7 mi
- Charlie Jones Veterans Memorial Park: 2.7 mi
- Emanuel Williamson Park: 2.9 mi
- Emmanuel Williamson Park: 3.7 mi
- Leather Hill Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Herrick Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Pawling Nature Reserve: 1.8 mi
- Wimisink Preserve: 1.8 mi
- Mildred Strauss and James Morrissey Family Nature Preserves: 2.6 mi
- Gardner Hill: 1.0 mi
- Tenmile Hill: 1.4 mi
- Church Hill: 1.4 mi
- Mullin Hill: 2.0 mi
- Schaghticoke Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Charcoal Hearth: 2.9 mi
- Lois Batchelder: 4.0 mi
- Jim Hulton: 4.1 mi
- Mill Ruins: 9.5 mi
- Natalie Todd Lilly: 14.5 mi
- Northrop House: 5.1 mi
- Sloane-Stanley Museum: 7.3 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 7.8 mi
- HarryBrooke Park Museum: 9.7 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 11.2 mi
- Personal Gardens: 10.2 mi
- Judea Garden: 10.7 mi
- Innisfree Garden: 13.6 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 18.4 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 18.8 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 7.9 mi
- New Preston Falls: 9.5 mi
- Upper Falls: 9.5 mi
- Lower Falls: 9.5 mi
- Kent Falls: 10.9 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 5.6 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 6.0 mi
- Pine Ledge: 8.5 mi
- North Beach: 11.9 mi
- South Beach: 12.3 mi
- Dover Stone Church: 6.9 mi
- New Milford Tank: 8.0 mi
- Watchtower Educational Center: 10.5 mi
- Indian village: 11.2 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 11.9 mi
- Pine Ledge: 5.5 mi
- Grand Staircase: 6.1 mi
- Kelly Slide: 6.2 mi
- Lovers Leap: 9.9 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 16.1 mi
- Jean Widmark: 14.8 mi
- greek letter pi: 16.6 mi
- Lesser Evil: 17.0 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 20.0 mi
- Evelyn Rimai Fisher Sculpture: 21.2 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 11.8 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 11.9 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 17.8 mi
- Dudley Town: 14.6 mi
- Dicktown: 17.1 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 2.5 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 19.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.1 miles of Leather Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preston Hill | NNE 11° | 442 m | 4.5 mi |
| North Preston Hill | NNE 12° | 441 m | 5.3 mi |
| Chapel Pond Hill | NNE 19° | 426 m | 5.2 mi |
| Dennis Hill | W 278° | 416 m | 4.7 mi |
| East Mountain | N 2° | 406 m | 5.5 mi |
| Observatory Hill | S 185° | 405 m | 4.0 mi |
| Schaghticoke Mountain | NNE 13° | 404 m | 2.8 mi |
| West Mountain | WNW 286° | 392 m | 4.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:51 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:17 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:43 | 16:28 |
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 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 67 | 73 | 72 | 64 | 53 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Stormville, 13 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 955142 — Leather Hill, Dutchess County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357568843
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 19 mi
- Cold Spring · 27 mi
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