Nimham Mount
Nimham Mount rises to 388 m in New York. Bald Hill stands 456 m to the west-northwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Nimham Unit, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 26 miles off.
The story
Mount Nimham is a 1,273-foot-tall (388 m) mountain in Hudson Highlands of New York. It is located northwest of Carmel in Putnam County. Nimham Mountain is named after Chief Daniel Nimham of the Wappinger tribe. In 1940, an 82-foot-6-inch-tall (25.15 m) steel fire lookout tower was built on the mountain. The tower ceased fire lookout operations at the end of the 1988 fire lookout season and was officially closed the next year. The tower appears on the National Historic Lookout Register and is still open to the public.
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Wikidata Q34882764, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 388 m
How to reach it
- 25.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 24.7 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
- 27.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Buck Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Big Buck Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Turkey Hill: 2.6 mi
- Dick Hill: 2.9 mi
- California Hill: 3.1 mi
- Mount Nimham Unit: 0.3 mi
- Adams Unit: 1.6 mi
- Dean Pond Unit: 1.8 mi
- Horse Pound Brook Unit: 1.9 mi
- Richardsville Unit: 2.0 mi
- Crane Road: 3.1 mi
- Hill and Dale Community Park: 3.1 mi
- CornerStone Park: 3.4 mi
- Sycamore Park: 3.4 mi
- Ryan's Field: 3.7 mi
- Sybil Ludington Statue: 3.6 mi
- chimney: 9.3 mi
- Old Bet Elephant Statue: 9.4 mi
- The Mt. Beacon Eight: 10.7 mi
- Connecticut Line: 11.4 mi
- General Patton: 12.9 mi
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower: 12.9 mi
- Washington Monument: 13.0 mi
- Thayer Statue: 13.0 mi
- greek letter pi: 14.4 mi
- Great Buddha Hall: 3.9 mi
- Van Wyck Homestead Museum: 9.5 mi
- Schoolhouse Museum: 9.5 mi
- Magazzino: 10.1 mi
- Boscobel House: 11.6 mi
- Personal Gardens: 7.8 mi
- Boscobel Gardens: 11.6 mi
- Haldane School Garden: 12.2 mi
- Lasdon Public Gardens and & Veterans Memorial: 12.8 mi
- Garden Of Ideas: 14.1 mi
- Mahopac Hills Beach: 4.8 mi
- Canopus Beach: 5.2 mi
- Tonetta Lake Beach: 6.5 mi
- Pine Ledge: 13.1 mi
- South Beach: 13.7 mi
- Watchtower Educational Center: 8.1 mi
- Danbury Fair Mall Carousel: 13.8 mi
- Timp-Torne Trail: 17.6 mi
- Dunderberg Spiral Railway: 18.0 mi
- New Milford Tank: 18.1 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 16.1 mi
- Kelly Slide: 16.5 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 16.6 mi
- Hell Hole: 16.9 mi
- Indian Rock Shelter: 17.1 mi
- Upper Falls: 10.5 mi
- Lower Falls: 10.5 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 12.2 mi
- LG waterfall: 18.2 mi
- Saugatuck Falls: 19.4 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 5.9 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 6.0 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 11.8 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 13.1 mi
- Bergfield Picnic Site: 15.7 mi
- Pell Hill: 16.0 mi
- Dicktown: 2.8 mi
- Doodletown: 18.2 mi
- The Silver Spring: 18.3 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 18.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of Nimham Mount. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Hill | WNW 286° | 456 m | 10.3 mi |
| Lambs Hill | WNW 283° | 454 m | 10.8 mi |
| Mount Egbert | NNE 13° | 405 m | 7.3 mi |
| Depot Hill | NNE 18° | 398 m | 8.3 mi |
| Birch Hill | ENE 64° | 386 m | 9.6 mi |
| Round Mountain | WNW 293° | 380 m | 6.9 mi |
| Cranberry Mountain | ENE 71° | 376 m | 8.9 mi |
| Hosner Mountain | NNW 334° | 366 m | 5.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:51 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:44 | 16:29 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 28 | 35 | 47 | 57 | 65 | 70 | 68 | 61 | 50 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Carmel 4N, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 958590 — Mount Nimham, Putnam County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357573577
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 3 mi
- Cold Spring · 12 mi
- Highlands · 15 mi
- Croton-on-Hudson · 20 mi
- Stony Point · 21 mi
- Briarcliff Manor · 22 mi
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