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Mount Pisgah

Mount Pisgah, seen from above at true elevation

Mount Pisgah rises to 635 m in New York. Sawtooth #1 stands 1,181 m to the south, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Common Ground Garden, a garden 0.7 miles away. Olympic Trail passes 1.1 miles off.

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

Coordinates44.34088, -74.12793

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Cliffs: 54
  • Pulpit Rock: 8.2 mi
  • Moss Cliff: 10.3 mi
  • Weeping Winds: 14.0 mi
  • Wallface: 14.7 mi
  • Henderson Cliff: 15.9 mi
Waterfalls: 32
Parks: 30
  • Denny Park: 0.7 mi
  • William Morris Park: 0.8 mi
  • Triangle Park: 0.8 mi
  • Ampersand Park: 0.8 mi
  • Herb Garden: 0.8 mi
Attractions: 16
  • 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
Historic sites: 16
Nature reserves: 10
  • 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
Museums: 7
Gardens: 4
  • 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
Beaches: 1
  • Lake Placid Public Beach: 8.2 mi
Artworks: 1
  • Big Wooden Bear (8'): 11.6 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.7 miles of Mount Pisgah. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sawtooth #1S 178°1,181 m10.5 mi
Moose MountainE 84°1,180 m6.2 mi
McKenzie MountainE 94°1,165 m4.7 mi
Sawtooth #2S 183°1,164 m10.2 mi
Sawtooth #4S 190°1,041 m9.8 mi
Ampersand MountainSSW 207°1,022 m8.2 mi
Mount AltonENE 75°974 m8.3 mi
Mount TamaracE 100°945 m5.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3119:09
June solstice05:1320:0020:45
September equinox06:4418:1818:56
December solstice07:3015:3316:21

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F141524385059646255443321

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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