Mount Colburn
Mount Colburn rises to 885 m in New York. Whiteface Mountain stands 1,466 m to the east-northeast, 6.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Tamarac, a peak 0.4 miles away. Olympic Trail passes 1.8 miles off. 229 named places lie within 25 miles, 53 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34880801, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 885 m
How to reach it
- 1.8 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 3.4 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 11.0 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 25.0 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Overlooks nearby
229 named places within 25 miles
- Mount Tamarac: 0.4 mi
- McKenzie Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Big Burn Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Little John Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Hennessy Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 2.6 mi
- Moss Cliff: 5.0 mi
- Weeping Winds: 8.7 mi
- Wallface: 12.6 mi
- The Courthouse: 13.2 mi
- Monument Falls: 5.1 mi
- High Falls (Main): 7.4 mi
- High Falls (Mini): 7.4 mi
- High Falls (Rainbow): 7.4 mi
- High Falls (Climax): 7.4 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 2.6 mi
- Brewster Park: 2.6 mi
- Mid's Park: 2.7 mi
- Baldwin Park: 5.1 mi
- Prescott Park: 5.2 mi
- Kate Smith Memorial: 3.0 mi
- World War Memorial: 3.0 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 4.2 mi
- 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron: 4.8 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Memorial: 4.9 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 4.0 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex: 5.2 mi
- Skyride: 5.2 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 5.2 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 5.3 mi
- Henry's Woods: 4.3 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 5.5 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 10.5 mi
- Four Peaks Tract: 12.5 mi
- New Vida Preserve: 13.1 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 3.0 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 3.0 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 5.3 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 5.5 mi
- Six Nations Indian Museum: 12.8 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 6.3 mi
- Goolds Garden: 13.9 mi
- Peace Garden: 14.0 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 23.0 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 3.1 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 6.7 mi
- Tahawus: 18.7 mi
- Footbridge Park: 22.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mount Colburn. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteface Mountain | ENE 61° | 1,466 m | 6.5 mi |
| Esther Mountain | NE 54° | 1,293 m | 7.8 mi |
| Nye Mountain | S 182° | 1,271 m | 9.2 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | ENE 59° | 1,242 m | 7.6 mi |
| Kilburn Mountain | E 100° | 1,182 m | 6.9 mi |
| Moose Mountain | NNE 20° | 1,180 m | 2.2 mi |
| Sentinel Mountain | E 97° | 1,174 m | 8.3 mi |
| McKenzie Mountain | NNW 327° | 1,165 m | 1.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:13 | 20:00 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:32 | 16:20 |
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 | 18 | 26 | 39 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 21 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lake Placid 2 S, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357554556
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