Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney rises to 804 m in New York. Whiteface Mountain stands 1,466 m to the northeast, 5.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Pulpit Rock, a cliff 0.5 miles away. Olympic Trail passes 0.9 miles off.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q34928324, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 804 m
How to reach it
- 0.9 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 2.2 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 14.1 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 24.9 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Cobble Hill: 0.9 mi
- Mount Colburn: 3.1 mi
- Eagle Eyrie: 3.3 mi
- Mount Tamarac: 3.3 mi
- Little John Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 0.5 mi
- Moss Cliff: 2.9 mi
- Weeping Winds: 5.9 mi
- The Courthouse: 10.6 mi
- Great Wall: 10.9 mi
- Monument Falls: 2.2 mi
- High Falls (Main): 5.1 mi
- High Falls (Mini): 5.1 mi
- High Falls (Rainbow): 5.1 mi
- High Falls (Climax): 5.2 mi
- Brewster Park: 1.6 mi
- Mid's Park: 1.7 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 1.7 mi
- Baldwin Park: 8.0 mi
- Prescott Park: 8.2 mi
- World War Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Kate Smith Memorial: 1.9 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Memorial: 1.9 mi
- 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron: 3.0 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 3.0 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex: 3.4 mi
- Skyride: 3.4 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 3.6 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 3.7 mi
- High Falls Gorge: 5.0 mi
- Henry's Woods: 3.3 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 4.7 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 7.5 mi
- Four Peaks Tract: 10.1 mi
- New Vida Preserve: 10.8 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 2.0 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 2.0 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 8.3 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 8.5 mi
- Six Nations Indian Museum: 15.0 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 9.3 mi
- Goolds Garden: 16.9 mi
- Peace Garden: 17.0 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 1.9 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 5.1 mi
- Tahawus: 18.2 mi
- Footbridge Park: 18.9 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 23.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of Mount Whitney. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteface Mountain | NE 34° | 1,466 m | 5.0 mi |
| Esther Mountain | NNE 32° | 1,293 m | 6.6 mi |
| Nye Mountain | SSW 201° | 1,271 m | 8.8 mi |
| Cascade Mountain | SE 141° | 1,249 m | 7.8 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | NE 36° | 1,242 m | 6.1 mi |
| Porter Mountain | SE 141° | 1,240 m | 8.3 mi |
| Kilburn Mountain | E 93° | 1,182 m | 3.8 mi |
| Moose Mountain | NW 325° | 1,180 m | 3.8 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 | 07:29 | 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, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357597232
Day trips start here
- Elizabethtown · 20 mi
- Westport · 27 mi
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