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.
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
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 9.5 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 |
| 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 |
| Little Whiteface Mountain | ENE 72° | 1,111 m | 6.7 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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