Mount Tamarac
Mount Tamarac rises to 945 m in New York. Whiteface Mountain stands 1,466 m to the east-northeast, 6.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Colburn, a peak 0.4 miles away. Olympic Trail passes 2.2 miles off. 230 named places lie within 25 miles, 53 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34883873, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 945 m
How to reach it
- 2.2 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 3.8 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 10.8 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 25.3 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Overlooks nearby
230 named places within 25 miles
- Mount Colburn: 0.4 mi
- McKenzie Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Big Burn Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Little John Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Haystack Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 2.8 mi
- Moss Cliff: 5.1 mi
- Weeping Winds: 9.1 mi
- Wallface: 13.0 mi
- Great Wall: 13.2 mi
- Monument Falls: 5.3 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: 3.0 mi
- Brewster Park: 3.0 mi
- Mid's Park: 3.1 mi
- Baldwin Park: 5.0 mi
- Prescott Park: 5.1 mi
- Kate Smith Memorial: 3.4 mi
- World War Memorial: 3.4 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 4.6 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Memorial: 5.2 mi
- 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron: 5.2 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 4.0 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex: 5.6 mi
- Skyride: 5.6 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 5.6 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 5.7 mi
- Henry's Woods: 4.7 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 5.9 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 10.6 mi
- Four Peaks Tract: 12.5 mi
- New Vida Preserve: 13.0 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 3.4 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 3.4 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 5.1 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 5.4 mi
- Six Nations Indian Museum: 12.4 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 6.1 mi
- Goolds Garden: 13.6 mi
- Peace Garden: 13.7 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 23.0 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 3.5 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 6.7 mi
- Tahawus: 19.1 mi
- Footbridge Park: 22.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mount Tamarac. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteface Mountain | ENE 65° | 1,466 m | 6.4 mi |
| Esther Mountain | ENE 57° | 1,293 m | 7.7 mi |
| Nye Mountain | S 181° | 1,271 m | 9.6 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | ENE 62° | 1,242 m | 7.5 mi |
| Kilburn Mountain | ESE 103° | 1,182 m | 7.0 mi |
| Moose Mountain | NNE 27° | 1,180 m | 1.9 mi |
| Sentinel Mountain | E 100° | 1,174 m | 8.4 mi |
| McKenzie Mountain | NW 319° | 1,165 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 | 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/357592216
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