Mombaccus Mountain
Mombaccus Mountain rises to 865 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the north-northwest, 7.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Southeast Little Rocky, a peak 0.7 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 8.5 miles off.
The story
Mombaccus Mountain is located in the Catskill Mountains of New York. To the south, it looms over the hamlet of Samsonville in the town of Olive. Together with Little Rocky and South Mountain, Mombaccus Mountain is part of a massif dominated by Ashokan High Point. Below its north slope is the Kanape Brook trail, an old wagon road that leads to a saddle between Mombaccus and Ashokan High Point. Big Rosy Bone Knob, a lesser summit, lies southwest of Mombaccus Mountain. According to historian DeWitt Davis, Mombaccus was "noted for huckleberries and bears" and bear traps were dug on its slopes. The placename Mombaccus ("mask of Bacchus" in Greek), was given by Dutch settlers to the area now known as the town of Rochester. It was inspired by a carving of a face (likely the Algonkian bear god Maysingwey) found on a sycamore tree where Rochester Creek (formerly known as Mombaccus Creek) enters Rondout Creek Today, Mombaccus is used as the name of a hamlet within Rochester on County Route 3 and for a tributary of Rochester Creek. The name Mombaccus was not given to the mountain until much later. When the town of Olive was formed, the area south of Mombaccus was known as "Subbeatty Land" and old deeds for properties on its slopes still refer to it as "Subbeatty Mountain."
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Wikidata Q34927139, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 865 m
How to reach it
- 8.5 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 11 mi
- Compass Rock · 12 mi
- Panther Rock · 12 mi
- Copes Lookout · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Southeast Little Rocky: 0.7 mi
- Little Rocky: 1.2 mi
- Ashokan High Point: 1.6 mi
- Little High Point: 1.8 mi
- Big Rosy Bone Knob: 1.9 mi
- Metacahonts Falls: 2.4 mi
- Vernooy Kill Falls: 4.0 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 5.3 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 5.8 mi
- Cornell Falls: 7.5 mi
- Future DEC: 2.8 mi
- Future DEC: 2.9 mi
- Watson Hollow Unit: 3.0 mi
- Future DEC: 3.7 mi
- Ashokan Fishing Access Area: 4.2 mi
- ruins: 4.1 mi
- Yale Quarry: 4.2 mi
- J. Waldo Smith Monument: 5.6 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 7.2 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 8.0 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 4.4 mi
- Tongore Park: 5.2 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 6.0 mi
- Brown's Station: 6.1 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 8.4 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 3.3 mi
- Samuels Point: 6.0 mi
- Cornell Crack: 6.8 mi
- Giant Ledge: 9.9 mi
- Gnome Mountain: 11.2 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 10.0 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 10.6 mi
- D & H Canal Museum and Visitor Center: 11.0 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 11.8 mi
- Widow Jane Mine Museum: 11.9 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 6.4 mi
- Gnome Chomsky: 8.7 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 11.9 mi
- Winnisook: 15.0 mi
- Large Hybrid, 1971: 16.7 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 9.1 mi
- Scuba Diving Access Area: 13.1 mi
- Lake Minnewaska Beach: 13.2 mi
- Lake Awosting Beach: 14.2 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 17.1 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 13.7 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 15.5 mi
- SUNY New Paltz Student Garden: 16.8 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 16.9 mi
- Buddah Garden: 19.4 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 9.7 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 10.0 mi
- Rail Explorers: 11.8 mi
- Swimming Hole: 12.8 mi
- Overturned 1938 Truck: 13.2 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 0.9 mi
- Bear Wallow: 1.6 mi
- Bear Wallow: 1.6 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 6.2 mi
- Piped Spring: 9.5 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 18.1 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 21.1 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 22.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Mombaccus Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | NNW 328° | 1,266 m | 7.3 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | NNW 340° | 1,174 m | 6.7 mi |
| Table Mountain | NW 305° | 1,165.86 m | 5.9 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | NW 304° | 1,164.03 m | 5.4 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | NNW 345° | 1,152.75 m | 7.0 mi |
| Panther Mountain | NNW 337° | 1,135.08 m | 11.0 mi |
| Lone Mountain | NW 315° | 1,127.76 m | 5.8 mi |
| Friday Mountain | NNW 334° | 1,125 m | 6.0 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 | 19:54 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 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, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357571824
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