Overlook Mountain
Overlook Mountain rises to 956 m in New York. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the northwest, 9.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Ministers Face, a cliff 0.6 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.
The story
Overlook Mountain is the southernmost peak of the Catskill Escarpment in the central Catskill Mountains near Woodstock, New York. The centerpiece of the 590-acre (240 ha) Overlook Mountain Wild Forest area of Catskill Park, the mountain is the site of one of the remaining five Catskill Mountain fire towers and the Overlook Mountain House, a hotel which was built at a higher elevation than any other in the range.
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Wikidata Q7113811, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 956 m
How to reach it
- 16.4 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 18 mi
- High Falls · 18 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 22 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sloan Gorge Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Overlook Turnpike Primitive Bicycle Corridor: 2.1 mi
- Mount Guardian Preserve: 2.3 mi
- Platte Clove Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Thorn Preserve: 4.5 mi
- Plattekill Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Mount Guardian: 2.3 mi
- Indian Head Mountain: 2.4 mi
- South Twin: 2.6 mi
- Twin Mountain South Summit: 2.8 mi
- Andy Lee Field: 3.1 mi
- Woodstock Waterfall Park: 3.4 mi
- The Comeau Property: 3.7 mi
- Rick Volz Field: 4.3 mi
- Bearsville Park: 4.4 mi
- Black Chasm Falls: 2.5 mi
- Hidden Falls: 2.8 mi
- Lemon Squeeze Falls: 2.8 mi
- Blue Hole Falls: 2.8 mi
- Red Rock Falls: 2.9 mi
- Keegan Bell: 3.0 mi
- Woodstock Veterans' War Memorial: 3.1 mi
- Boarding House: 3.3 mi
- Tory Fort: 5.7 mi
- Layman's Monument: 7.3 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 3.3 mi
- Kiersted House: 7.4 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 7.6 mi
- Center For Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art: 10.2 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 10.9 mi
- Ministers Face: 0.6 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 2.7 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 3.2 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 3.3 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 5.2 mi
- The Great Knot: 2.8 mi
- Opus 40: 3.9 mi
- The Query Family: 3.9 mi
- Flame: 3.9 mi
- Tomorrow: 4.0 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 7.3 mi
- West Landing: 8.9 mi
- South Landing: 9.0 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 9.4 mi
- Kingston Point Beach: 12.6 mi
- The Walled Garden: 9.0 mi
- The Upper Garden: 9.0 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 10.0 mi
- Rough Garden: 10.2 mi
- Ellipse: 10.2 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 10.2 mi
- Rail Explorers: 11.0 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 11.5 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 12.9 mi
- Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 17.3 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 9.0 mi
- Bear Wallow: 14.9 mi
- Bear Wallow: 14.9 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 15.7 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 15.9 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 7.6 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 11.5 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 8.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.3 miles of Overlook Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | NW 312° | 1,228.34 m | 9.5 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | WNW 300° | 1,186 m | 11.6 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | NW 311° | 1,168.91 m | 5.5 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | NW 318° | 1,160 m | 4.3 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | NW 305° | 1,140 m | 9.4 mi |
| Kaaterskill High Peak | N 7° | 1,113.13 m | 5.4 mi |
| Twin Mountain | NNW 327° | 1,112.52 m | 3.4 mi |
| East Rusk | NW 313° | 1,105.814 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:54 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 15:43 | 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 | 22 | 24 | 31 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 60 | 48 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 4.9 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 6.3 | 6.3 | 7.0 | 4.9 | 7.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Platte Clove, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 959659 — Overlook Mountain, Ulster County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357575859
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