Parker Mountain
Parker Mountain rises to 863 m in New York. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the west-southwest, 5.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Mountain Top Arboretum, a park 0.5 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 26 miles off.
The story
Parker Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York east-northeast of Hunter. Onteora Mountain is located west, Stoppel Point is located east, Black Dome is located north-northeast, Star Rock is located east-northeast, and Thomas Cole Mountain is located north of Parker Mountain.
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Wikidata Q34889110, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 863 m
How to reach it
- 26.1 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 27 mi
- White Dot · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 0.5 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 2.2 mi
- C.D. Lane Park: 4.7 mi
- Angelo Canna Town Park: 8.8 mi
- Irish Cultural Center: 10.3 mi
- Onteora Mountain: 1.5 mi
- West Stoppel Point: 2.0 mi
- Clum Hill: 2.7 mi
- Thomas Cole Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Caudal: 3.4 mi
- Katydid Creek Unit: 2.4 mi
- Twilight Park Unit: 2.9 mi
- Railroad Bend Unit: 3.3 mi
- Roundtop Mountain Unit: 3.5 mi
- Platte Clove Road Unit: 3.5 mi
- East Kill Falls: 2.9 mi
- Delmura Falls: 3.6 mi
- Santa Cruz Falls: 4.1 mi
- Bastion Falls: 4.1 mi
- Kaaterskill Falls: 4.4 mi
- Layman's Monument: 4.3 mi
- stone house: 4.6 mi
- Tory Fort: 4.6 mi
- cistern: 5.1 mi
- Catskill Mountain House: 5.7 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 3.1 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 4.1 mi
- Durham Center Museum: 11.5 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 12.6 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 13.1 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 5.0 mi
- The Great Knot: 11.8 mi
- Opus 40: 13.1 mi
- The Query Family: 13.1 mi
- Flame: 13.1 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 5.2 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 5.7 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 6.9 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 7.8 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 7.9 mi
- The Upper Garden: 14.7 mi
- The Walled Garden: 14.7 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 18.0 mi
- The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 18.3 mi
- Rough Garden: 18.4 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 14.2 mi
- West Landing: 16.4 mi
- South Landing: 16.4 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 18.1 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 18.3 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 5.9 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 6.1 mi
- Bear Wallow: 21.9 mi
- Bear Wallow: 21.9 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 22.6 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 6.8 mi
- Rail Explorers: 13.1 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 14.2 mi
- Pratt Rock: 15.7 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 22.6 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 5.3 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 5.4 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 15.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Parker Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | WSW 236° | 1,228.34 m | 5.6 mi |
| Black Dome | NNE 15° | 1,217.37 m | 3.4 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | N 4° | 1,204.87 m | 3.3 mi |
| Blackhead | NNE 30° | 1,200.91 m | 3.6 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | WSW 244° | 1,186 m | 8.6 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | SSW 197° | 1,168.91 m | 6.1 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | S 185° | 1,160 m | 6.4 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | SW 232° | 1,140 m | 6.8 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 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 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 | 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, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357576206
Day trips start here
- Kinderhook · 27 mi
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