Little Rocky
Little Rocky rises to 917 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the north-northwest, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Southeast Little Rocky, a peak 0.5 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 9.6 miles off.
The story
Little Rocky is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York. It is part of a massif that includes Ashokan High Point, Mombaccus Mountain and South Mountain in West Shokan. Hanover Mountain is located north, Breath Hill is located northwest, and Big Rosy Bone Knob is located southwest of Little Rocky.
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Wikidata Q34924602, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 917 m
How to reach it
- 9.6 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Panther Rock · 13 mi
- Compass Rock · 13 mi
- Copes Lookout · 14 mi
- Beacon Hill · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Southeast Little Rocky: 0.5 mi
- Mombaccus Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Breath Hill: 1.5 mi
- Big Rosy Bone Knob: 1.5 mi
- Ashokan High Point: 2.3 mi
- Watson Hollow Unit: 2.7 mi
- Future DEC: 3.3 mi
- Bushkill Fishing Unit: 4.4 mi
- Oak Ridge Unit: 4.6 mi
- Ashokan Fishing Access Area: 4.8 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 4.4 mi
- Tongore Park: 6.2 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 6.4 mi
- Brown's Station: 6.9 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 8.1 mi
- Yale Quarry: 5.1 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 6.2 mi
- J. Waldo Smith Monument: 6.4 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 6.9 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 9.5 mi
- Metacahonts Falls: 3.5 mi
- Vernooy Kill Falls: 3.8 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 4.2 mi
- Cornell Falls: 6.6 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 6.8 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 2.3 mi
- Samuels Point: 5.5 mi
- Cornell Crack: 5.9 mi
- Giant Ledge: 8.9 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 11.7 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 9.5 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 11.2 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 11.2 mi
- D & H Canal Museum and Visitor Center: 12.3 mi
- Napanoch Station: 12.5 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 6.3 mi
- Gnome Chomsky: 9.7 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 11.3 mi
- Winnisook: 14.0 mi
- Large Hybrid, 1971: 17.9 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 10.3 mi
- Scuba Diving Access Area: 14.0 mi
- Lake Minnewaska Beach: 14.1 mi
- Lake Awosting Beach: 15.0 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 16.1 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 14.7 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 16.5 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 17.9 mi
- SUNY New Paltz Student Garden: 17.9 mi
- Buddah Garden: 19.8 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 9.3 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 11.2 mi
- Rail Explorers: 11.2 mi
- Overturned 1938 Truck: 13.6 mi
- Swimming Hole: 13.9 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 1.0 mi
- Bear Wallow: 2.3 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 5.0 mi
- Piped Spring: 8.4 mi
- Box Spring: 10.3 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 17.9 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 20.7 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 23.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.0 miles of Little Rocky. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | NNW 334° | 1,266 m | 6.2 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | NNW 348° | 1,174 m | 5.8 mi |
| Table Mountain | NW 306° | 1,166 m | 4.6 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | NW 305° | 1,164 m | 4.1 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | N 353° | 1,153 m | 6.2 mi |
| Panther Mountain | NNW 341° | 1,135 m | 10.0 mi |
| Lone Mountain | NW 320° | 1,128 m | 4.6 mi |
| Big Indian Mountain | NW 314° | 1,127 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:45 | 16:30 |
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 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 955665 — Little Rocky, Ulster County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357569397
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