Mount Skylight
Mount Skylight rises to 1,495 m in New York. Mount Marcy stands 1,629 m to the north-northeast, 1.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Schofield Cobble, a peak 0.8 miles away. High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73) passes 8.4 miles off.
The story
Mount Skylight is a mountain in the Adirondacks in the U.S. state of New York. Skylight is the fourth-highest peak in New York, with an elevation of 4,924 feet (1,501 m), and one of the 46 High Peaks in Adirondack Park. It is located in the town of Keene in Essex County. The mountain was given its name by artist Frederick S. Perkins and guide Orson Schofield Phelps in 1857, due to a rock formation on the peak resembling a window. Phelps would later make the first known ascent of the peak with surveyor Verplanck Colvin and two others on August 28, 1873.
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Wikidata Q6923718, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1495 m
How to reach it
- 8.4 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 12.3 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 12.6 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 22.9 mi off the Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Snow Mountain Lookout · 8 mi
- Cascade Mountain · 9 mi
- Roaring Brook Falls Lower Lookout · 9 mi
- Roaring Brook Falls Upper Lookout · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Schofield Cobble: 0.8 mi
- Gray Peak: 0.9 mi
- Mount Redfield: 0.9 mi
- Mount Marcy: 1.0 mi
- Little Nippletop: 1.1 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 3.8 mi
- Fish Hawk Cliffs: 5.3 mi
- Lost Lookout: 5.7 mi
- Wallface: 5.9 mi
- The Courthouse: 6.8 mi
- Indian Falls: 2.8 mi
- Indian Falls: 2.8 mi
- Hanging Spear Falls: 3.0 mi
- Bushnell Falls: 4.0 mi
- MacIntyre Falls: 4.8 mi
- Indian Head Trailhead: 8.8 mi
- Mid's Park: 13.4 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 13.5 mi
- Brewster Park: 13.5 mi
- Frontier Town Campground, Equestrian and Day Use Area: 14.7 mi
- Mount Marcy First Ascent: 1.0 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 3.5 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Lower Ausable Lake Dam: 5.4 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 6.4 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 4.1 mi
- Cliffside Coaster: 8.2 mi
- Mountain Pass Lodge: 8.2 mi
- Lake Placid Bobsled Experience at Mt. Van Hoevenberg: 8.2 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 10.8 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 6.4 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 7.0 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 10.4 mi
- Henry's Woods: 11.6 mi
- Boquet River Primitive Area: 13.3 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 13.0 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 13.0 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 18.5 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 18.6 mi
- Adirondack History Museum: 18.7 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 13.0 mi
- Park beach: 20.2 mi
- Port Henry Village Beach: 23.9 mi
- Bulwagga Bay Beach: 24.0 mi
- Footbridge Park: 18.4 mi
- Witherbee Park and Bandstand: 23.8 mi
- Bulwagga Bay Pavillion: 24.0 mi
- Powerhouse Park: 24.0 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 19.8 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 20.1 mi
- Tahawus: 6.8 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 12.7 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 18.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.1 miles of Mount Skylight. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Marcy | NNE 22° | 1,629 m | 1.0 mi |
| Algonquin Peak | NW 318° | 1,555 m | 4.1 mi |
| Schofield Cobble | NNE 17° | 1,515 m | 0.8 mi |
| Mount Haystack | ENE 74° | 1,498 m | 1.6 mi |
| Iroquois Peak | NW 308° | 1,472 m | 4.2 mi |
| Boundary Peak | NW 312° | 1,471 m | 4.2 mi |
| Basin Mountain | NE 56° | 1,468 m | 2.7 mi |
| Gray Peak | NNW 343° | 1,463 m | 0.9 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 | 19:59 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 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 | 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, 14 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 973360 — Mount Skylight, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357598556
Day trips start here
- Elizabethtown · 18 mi
- Westport · 25 mi
- Crown Point · 27 mi
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