Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant rises to 534 m in New York. Virgil Mountain stands 643 m to the east, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Campbell Meadows, a park 1.7 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 5.8 miles off.
The story
mountain in Tompkins County, New York, United States of America
Wikidata Q34883209, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 534 m
How to reach it
- 5.8 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 12.8 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 6 mi
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Campbell Meadows: 1.7 mi
- Etna Community Park: 2.1 mi
- F.R. Newman Arboretum: 3.7 mi
- Salem Park: 3.7 mi
- Hungerford Heights Park: 4.0 mi
- Turkey Hill: 2.0 mi
- Yellow Barn Hill: 2.2 mi
- Snyder Hill: 2.7 mi
- Hungerford Hill: 3.9 mi
- Beam Hill: 4.2 mi
- Durland Nature Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Dewey Preserve: 1.8 mi
- Travis Wildflower Preserve: 2.0 mi
- Conwell Tract: 2.0 mi
- Polson Preserve: 2.4 mi
- Potter's Falls: 4.8 mi
- Triphammer Falls: 4.9 mi
- Rocky Falls: 5.1 mi
- Horseshoe Falls: 5.2 mi
- Ithaca Falls: 5.5 mi
- Incodema: 4.3 mi
- The Overlook At West Hill (housing for the elderly): 7.9 mi
- Turn here for fresh eggs farm stand: 9.1 mi
- Stick And Stone Farm and CSA: 9.9 mi
- Rt 96 Self Storage: 10.5 mi
- Tompkins Center for History & Culture: 5.9 mi
- Sciencenter: 6.1 mi
- Museum of the Earth: 7.7 mi
- Field School House: 8.2 mi
- Cayuga Nature Center: 9.7 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 3.7 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 3.7 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 3.7 mi
- Mill Dam Park Sign Planter: 4.0 mi
- Freeville Community Garden: 4.2 mi
- Andrew Dickson White Statue: 5.1 mi
- Monument of Ezra Cornell: 5.2 mi
- Bob Baker BBQ Pavilion: 8.2 mi
- Peter Wheeler historic marker: 10.2 mi
- Birthplace of John D Rockefeller: 11.8 mi
- Pinnacle Rock: 7.4 mi
- Point O'Rocks: 13.2 mi
- Whitney Point Rest Area: 20.7 mi
- Preble: 21.5 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 6.2 mi
- Der deutsche Strand: 8.5 mi
- Tamarack Spring: 9.9 mi
- Cheningo Day Use Area: 24.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.7 miles of Mount Pleasant. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgil Mountain | E 79° | 643 m | 12.7 mi |
| Connecticut Hill | WSW 251° | 638 m | 15.3 mi |
| Greek Peak | ENE 77° | 637 m | 12.2 mi |
| South Hill | ENE 76° | 635 m | 12.1 mi |
| Tuller Hill | ENE 70° | 616 m | 14.0 mi |
| Star Stanton Hill | E 100° | 612 m | 5.0 mi |
| Irish Hill | SW 227° | 599 m | 18.9 mi |
| Hammond Hill | ESE 110° | 598 m | 4.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:41 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:29 | 20:04 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 15:51 | 16:36 |
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 | 23 | 24 | 31 | 44 | 56 | 65 | 69 | 67 | 60 | 49 | 39 | 29 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ithaca Cornell Univ, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 960744 — Mount Pleasant, Tompkins County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357577541
Day trips start here
- Ithaca · 6 mi
- Cortland · 14 mi
- Trumansburg · 15 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 18 mi
- Watkins Glen · 25 mi
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