North Mountain
North Mountain rises to 971 m in New York. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the west-southwest, 9.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Winter Clove falls, a waterfall 0.5 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 26 miles off.
The story
North Mountain is a peak in the Catskill Mountains of New York, on the border between the towns of Catskill and Hunter, in Greene County. It is part of the Catskill Escarpment. Cairo Round Top is located northeast and Artists Rock is located southeast of North Mountain. It overlooks the North-South Lake State Campground, an area where resort hotels such as the Catskill Mountain House were once located, and thus has long been a popular climb with hikers. It can be reached by several trails from the campground area, all of which eventually lead to the Escarpment Trail, which crosses the summit. The Long Path, a 350-mile (560 km) long-distance hiking trail from New York City to Albany, is contiguous with the Escarpment Trail.
North Point is an area with many open ledges located at 2,900 feet (880 m), along the trail about a half-mile (800 m) below the summit. From North Point, the views of the lakes, other mountains such as Kaaterskill High Peak and the Hudson River and its valley are expansive. They were sometimes the subject of paintings by members of the Hudson River School. The summit is also one of the lowest in elevation in the Catskills to feature a boreal forest of red spruce and balsam fir.
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Wikidata Q8520739, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 971 m
How to reach it
- 25.6 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 27 mi
- High Falls · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Stoppel Point: 1.0 mi
- South Mountain: 2.0 mi
- West Stoppel Point: 2.7 mi
- Arizona Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Cairo Round Top: 3.9 mi
- Twilight Park Unit: 3.6 mi
- Roundtop Mountain Unit: 4.6 mi
- Platte Clove Road Unit: 5.8 mi
- Platte Clove Preserve: 6.2 mi
- Katydid Creek Unit: 6.3 mi
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 4.2 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 4.7 mi
- Angelo Canna Town Park: 6.1 mi
- C.D. Lane Park: 7.8 mi
- Elliott Park: 8.9 mi
- Winter Clove falls: 0.5 mi
- Ashley Falls: 0.9 mi
- Venus Bath: 1.5 mi
- Gaia Cascade: 1.7 mi
- Kaaterskill Falls: 1.8 mi
- stone house: 1.6 mi
- Catskill Mountain House: 1.7 mi
- cistern: 1.8 mi
- Otis Railroad Trestle: 1.9 mi
- Layman's Monument: 2.2 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 2.7 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 8.7 mi
- Thomas Cole National Historic Site: 9.6 mi
- Kiersted House: 10.8 mi
- Olana: 11.2 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 9.4 mi
- The Great Knot: 10.3 mi
- Pulelehua: 10.9 mi
- Love is in the Air: 10.9 mi
- The Query Family: 11.5 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 4.2 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 6.2 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 6.4 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 6.8 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 9.1 mi
- The Upper Garden: 11.2 mi
- The Walled Garden: 11.3 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 15.2 mi
- The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 15.3 mi
- Bard Community Garden: 15.5 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 11.3 mi
- West Landing: 13.5 mi
- South Landing: 13.5 mi
- Oakdale Beach: 14.0 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 15.6 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 8.7 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 10.0 mi
- Bear Wallow: 23.6 mi
- Bear Wallow: 23.6 mi
- Bathtub Spring: 24.3 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 2.5 mi
- Rail Explorers: 16.3 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 16.9 mi
- Pratt Rock: 20.2 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 21.0 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 8.9 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 9.8 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 11.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.8 miles of North Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | WSW 254° | 1,228.34 m | 9.7 mi |
| Black Dome | NW 314° | 1,217.37 m | 5.2 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | NW 310° | 1,204.87 m | 5.8 mi |
| Blackhead | NW 320° | 1,200.91 m | 4.5 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | WSW 255° | 1,186 m | 12.8 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | SW 229° | 1,168.91 m | 8.5 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | SW 221° | 1,160 m | 7.9 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | WSW 249° | 1,140 m | 10.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:54 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 15:42 | 16:28 |
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 | 21 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 61 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 27 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 3.1 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 6.0 | 4.8 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Jewett, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 958859 — North Mountain, Greene County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357574253
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- Kinderhook · 23 mi
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