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. 234 named places lie within 25 miles, 56 of them named summits.
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
234 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 25 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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