Peacock Mountain
Peacock Mountain rises to 772 m in New York. Algonquin Peak stands 1,555 m to the south, 5.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Sugarloaf Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73) passes 2.3 miles off. 233 named places lie within 25 miles, 49 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in the United States of America.
Wikidata Q34829151, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 772 m
How to reach it
- 2.3 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 3.8 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 15.1 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 19.0 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Overlooks nearby
233 named places within 25 miles
- Weeping Winds: 5.9 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 6.0 mi
- Wallface: 6.3 mi
- The Courthouse: 8.4 mi
- Moss Cliff: 8.7 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Heaven Hill: 1.6 mi
- Nye Mountain - North Peak: 2.5 mi
- Nye Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Mount Jo: 3.0 mi
- Wanika Falls: 3.4 mi
- Rocky Falls: 3.7 mi
- MacIntyre Falls: 4.7 mi
- Cascade Falls: 6.4 mi
- Indian Falls: 6.8 mi
- Mid's Park: 4.5 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 4.5 mi
- Brewster Park: 4.6 mi
- Baldwin Park: 8.7 mi
- Prescott Park: 9.1 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 2.3 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 2.6 mi
- Skyride: 2.8 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex: 2.8 mi
- Cliffside Coaster: 3.8 mi
- John Brown Memorial Statue: 2.3 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 2.9 mi
- 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron: 3.1 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 3.5 mi
- Kate Smith Memorial: 4.2 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 1.3 mi
- Henry's Woods: 2.7 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 8.9 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 9.7 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 11.0 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 4.1 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 4.1 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 9.5 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 9.5 mi
- Six Nations Indian Museum: 19.4 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 10.8 mi
- Peace Garden: 19.1 mi
- Goolds Garden: 19.2 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 23.2 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 4.1 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 10.8 mi
- Tahawus: 12.4 mi
- Footbridge Park: 19.9 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 20.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Peacock Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Peak | S 174° | 1,555 m | 5.7 mi |
| Iroquois Peak | S 179° | 1,472 m | 6.1 mi |
| Boundary Peak | S 177° | 1,471 m | 5.9 mi |
| Mount Colden | SSE 164° | 1,436 m | 7.1 mi |
| Wright Peak | S 169° | 1,389 m | 5.2 mi |
| Mount Marshall | S 185° | 1,333 m | 6.8 mi |
| Table Top Mountain | SE 145° | 1,312 m | 7.2 mi |
| Big Slide Mountain | ESE 115° | 1,280 m | 7.0 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 | 15:33 | 16:21 |
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, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 960033 — Peacock Mountain, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357576415
Day trips start here
- Elizabethtown · 20 mi
- Westport · 28 mi
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