Little Buck Mountain
Little Buck Mountain rises to 289 m in New York. Bald Hill stands 456 m to the west, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Buck Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 25 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34826301, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 289 m
How to reach it
- 24.7 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
- 27.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 28.7 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 28 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Big Buck State Forest: 1.0 mi
- Horse Pound Brook Unit: 1.0 mi
- North Putnam Unit: 1.3 mi
- Kent Hills Unit: 1.4 mi
- Mount Nimham Unit: 1.6 mi
- Hill and Dale Community Park: 3.7 mi
- Ryan's Field: 3.9 mi
- CornerStone Park: 4.3 mi
- Crane Road: 4.7 mi
- Sycamore Park: 5.1 mi
- Big Buck Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Nimham Mount: 1.8 mi
- Money Ledge Hill: 1.9 mi
- Miller Hill: 2.1 mi
- Bare Hill: 2.9 mi
- Sybil Ludington Statue: 4.6 mi
- chimney: 10.7 mi
- Old Bet Elephant Statue: 10.9 mi
- The Mt. Beacon Eight: 11.1 mi
- American revolution signal Beacon monument: 12.1 mi
- General Patton: 14.2 mi
- greek letter pi: 14.2 mi
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower: 14.2 mi
- Washington Monument: 14.3 mi
- Thayer Statue: 14.3 mi
- Great Buddha Hall: 4.3 mi
- Van Wyck Homestead Museum: 9.6 mi
- Magazzino: 11.2 mi
- Schoolhouse Museum: 11.2 mi
- Hammond Museum: 12.5 mi
- Personal Gardens: 6.7 mi
- Boscobel Gardens: 12.8 mi
- Haldane School Garden: 13.3 mi
- Lasdon Public Gardens and & Veterans Memorial: 14.4 mi
- Garden Of Ideas: 14.8 mi
- Canopus Beach: 6.0 mi
- Mahopac Hills Beach: 6.5 mi
- Tonetta Lake Beach: 6.8 mi
- Pine Ledge: 11.9 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 12.8 mi
- Watchtower Educational Center: 7.1 mi
- Danbury Fair Mall Carousel: 13.9 mi
- New Milford Tank: 16.8 mi
- Dover Stone Church: 18.6 mi
- Timp-Torne Trail: 19.3 mi
- Kelly Slide: 15.1 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 15.7 mi
- Lovers Leap: 16.3 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 17.9 mi
- Indian Rock Shelter: 18.3 mi
- Upper Falls: 9.4 mi
- Lower Falls: 9.4 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 11.0 mi
- LG waterfall: 17.4 mi
- Saugatuck Falls: 19.7 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 4.3 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 4.4 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 11.9 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 12.6 mi
- Bergfield Picnic Site: 16.8 mi
- Pell Hill: 17.2 mi
- Dicktown: 3.4 mi
- Doodletown: 19.8 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 16.8 mi
- The Silver Spring: 19.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.3 miles of Little Buck Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Hill | W 276° | 456 m | 10.7 mi |
| Mount Egbert | N 10° | 405 m | 5.6 mi |
| Depot Hill | NNE 17° | 398 m | 6.5 mi |
| Nimham Mount | SSW 204° | 388 m | 1.8 mi |
| Birch Hill | ENE 72° | 386 m | 8.4 mi |
| Round Mountain | W 279° | 380 m | 7.2 mi |
| Cranberry Mountain | E 80° | 376 m | 7.8 mi |
| Branch Hill | ENE 57° | 370 m | 11.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:51 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 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 | 25 | 28 | 35 | 47 | 57 | 65 | 70 | 68 | 61 | 50 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Carmel 4N, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357569190
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 4 mi
- Cold Spring · 13 mi
- Highlands · 17 mi
- Croton-on-Hudson · 21 mi
- Stony Point · 23 mi
- Briarcliff Manor · 24 mi
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