Mount Pisgah
Mount Pisgah rises to 635 m in New York. Moose Mountain stands 1,180 m to the east, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Common Ground Garden, a garden 0.7 miles away. Olympic Trail passes 1.1 miles off. 213 named places lie within 25 miles, 47 of them named summits.
The story
Mount Pisgah is a 2,090-foot-tall (640 m) mountain in Essex County on the northern edge of the village of Saranac Lake. The mountain is privately owned. There is a small, dispersed housing development on the south side, communications towers on the summit, and a village ski area on the north side. It is one of three small mountains surrounding Saranac Lake: the others are Baker Mountain and Dewey Mountain. The name comes from the Bible: it was the mountain east of Jordan from which Moses was permitted to view the promised land. In the 1890s it was called Jenkins Hill.
In 1952, poet, novelist and short story writer Sylvia Plath broke her leg skiing on Mount Pisgah while visiting her boyfriend, Dick Norton, who was curing at New York State Sanatorium at Ray Brook. She fictionalized this incident in her novel The Bell Jar.
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Wikidata Q34883095, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 635 m
How to reach it
- 1.1 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 5.5 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 8.4 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 25.5 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Overlooks nearby
213 named places within 25 miles
- Pulpit Rock: 8.2 mi
- Moss Cliff: 10.3 mi
- Weeping Winds: 14.0 mi
- Wallface: 14.7 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 15.9 mi
- Baker Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Dewey Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Brewster Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Little McKenzie Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Haystack Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Wanika Falls: 10.5 mi
- Monument Falls: 10.7 mi
- High Falls (Main): 12.5 mi
- High Falls (Mini): 12.5 mi
- High Falls (Rainbow): 12.6 mi
- Denny Park: 0.7 mi
- William Morris Park: 0.8 mi
- Triangle Park: 0.8 mi
- Ampersand Park: 0.8 mi
- Ward Plumadore Park: 0.9 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 2.9 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 9.8 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 10.0 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex: 10.0 mi
- Skyride: 10.0 mi
- Kate Smith Memorial: 8.1 mi
- World War Memorial: 8.1 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 8.9 mi
- 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron: 9.7 mi
- John Brown Memorial Statue: 9.9 mi
- Henry's Woods: 8.8 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 9.4 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 9.7 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 12.7 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 16.0 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 0.7 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 1.0 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 8.1 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 8.1 mi
- Six Nations Indian Museum: 10.7 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 0.7 mi
- Peace Garden: 8.9 mi
- Goolds Garden: 9.0 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 18.3 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 8.2 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 11.6 mi
- Tahawus: 20.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mount Pisgah. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moose Mountain | E 84° | 1,180 m | 6.2 mi |
| McKenzie Mountain | E 94° | 1,165 m | 4.7 mi |
| Ampersand Mountain | SSW 207° | 1,022 m | 8.2 mi |
| Mount Alton | ENE 75° | 974 m | 8.3 mi |
| Mount Tamarac | E 100° | 945 m | 5.4 mi |
| Scarface Mountain | SSE 153° | 931 m | 5.9 mi |
| Van Dorrien Mountain | SSW 194° | 912 m | 8.5 mi |
| Stony Creek Mountain | SW 220° | 910 m | 10.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:31 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:13 | 20:00 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:33 | 16:21 |
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 | 14 | 15 | 24 | 38 | 50 | 59 | 64 | 62 | 55 | 44 | 33 | 21 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RAY Brook, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 960634 — Mount Pisgah, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357577358
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