Peekamoose Mountain
Peekamoose Mountain rises to 1,164 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the north, 3.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Table Mountain, a peak 0.5 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.
The story
Peekamoose Mountain is a mountain located in Ulster County, New York. The mountain is part of the Catskill Mountains. Peekamoose Mountain is flanked to the north by Table Mountain. The name Peekamoose is possibly an anglicization of an Algonquin word meaning 'broken off smooth', cf. Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain. Peekamoose Mountain stands within the watershed of Rondout Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River, which drains into New York Bay. The east and southeast slopes of Peekamoose Mtn. drain into Rondout Creek. The southwest end of Peekamoose drains into Buttermilk Falls Brook, thence into Rondout Creek. The west side of Peekamoose drains into Bear Hole Brook, thence into Rondout Creek. Peekamoose Mountain is within the Slide Mountain Wilderness of New York's Catskill State Park. The Long Path, a 350-mile (560 km) long-distance hiking trail from New York City to Albany, crosses the summits of Peekamoose and Table.
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Wikidata Q7160173, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1164.03 m
How to reach it
- 13.0 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Panther Rock · 16 mi
- High Falls · 16 mi
- Compass Rock · 17 mi
- Beacon Hill · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Table Mountain: 0.5 mi
- Lone Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Rocky Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Van Wyck Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Breath Hill: 2.5 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 2.2 mi
- Cornell Falls: 4.5 mi
- Otter Falls: 5.5 mi
- Vernooy Kill Falls: 5.7 mi
- High Falls: 6.8 mi
- Future DEC: 4.5 mi
- Red Hill Knolls Unit: 4.6 mi
- Watson Hollow Unit: 4.7 mi
- Oak Ridge Unit: 5.6 mi
- Bushkill Fishing Unit: 6.2 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 6.2 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 8.3 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 8.7 mi
- Tongore Park: 9.7 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 9.9 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 3.0 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 3.2 mi
- Forstmann Castle: 5.8 mi
- ruins: 8.5 mi
- Yale Quarry: 8.6 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 2.9 mi
- Cornell Crack: 4.0 mi
- Samuels Point: 5.5 mi
- Giant Ledge: 6.0 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 13.4 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 6.5 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 9.9 mi
- Napanoch Station: 14.8 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 15.2 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 15.5 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 12.6 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 14.3 mi
- Scuba Diving Access Area: 17.6 mi
- Lake Minnewaska Beach: 17.6 mi
- Lake Awosting Beach: 18.1 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 7.5 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 9.8 mi
- Winnisook: 10.7 mi
- Gnome Chomsky: 13.4 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 19.0 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 8.8 mi
- Rail Explorers: 9.9 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 15.3 mi
- Overturned 1938 Truck: 16.0 mi
- Swimming Hole: 17.7 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 0.8 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 4.8 mi
- Piped Spring: 5.6 mi
- Bear Wallow: 5.9 mi
- Bear Wallow: 6.0 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 18.6 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 19.9 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 21.4 mi
- Buddah Garden: 21.9 mi
- SUNY New Paltz Student Garden: 22.0 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 17.4 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 19.5 mi
- Roscoe: 24.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.6 miles of Peekamoose Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | N 11° | 1,266 m | 3.2 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain | NW 308° | 1,180 m | 8.4 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain - South Peak | NW 307° | 1,175 m | 8.1 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | NNE 33° | 1,174 m | 4.0 mi |
| Graham Mountain | NW 308° | 1,174 m | 9.8 mi |
| Table Mountain | NW 318° | 1,165.86 m | 0.5 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | NE 34° | 1,152.75 m | 4.6 mi |
| Panther Mountain | N 1° | 1,135.08 m | 7.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:45 | 16:30 |
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 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357598550
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