Plateau Mountain
Plateau Mountain rises to 1,169 m in New York. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the northwest, 4.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Mink Hollow Primitive Bicycle Corridor, a nature reserve 0.9 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 21 miles off.
The story
Plateau Mountain is located in the town of Hunter in Greene County, New York, United States. It is part of the Devil's Path range of the Catskill Mountains. Plateau has a two-mile-long (3.2 km) summit ridge above 3,500 feet (1,100 m). The highest point, at least 3,840 feet (1,170 m), is at the southeast end, facing Sugarloaf Mountain to the east across Mink Hollow Notch. It is the 12th-highest peak in the range Devils Tombstone is located west of Plateau Mountain. The northwest end faces Hunter Mountain to the west across 1,400-foot-deep (430 m) Stony Clove Notch. Plateau Mountain stands within the watershed of the Hudson River, which drains into New York Bay. It feeds the Hudson by way of Esopus Creek through Stony Clove Creek from its western slopes, and through Beaver Kill from its southeast end. Its southwest slopes drain into Warner Creek, thence into Stony Clove Creek. The northeastern slopes of Plateau drain into Schoharie Creek, thence into the Mohawk River, and the Hudson River. Plateau Mountain is within New York's Catskill State Park. The Devil's Path hiking trail traverses the summit ridge of Plateau. A section of the Long Path, a 350-mile (560 km) long-distance hiking trail through southeastern New York, climbs up the ridge from Silver Hollow Notch to the Devil's Path midway along the ridge. The Long Path then follows the Devil's Path east to the slopes of Indian Head Mountain on the Catskill Escarpment.
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Wikidata Q7202220, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1168.91 m
How to reach it
- 20.5 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 21 mi
- White Dot · 22 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 26 mi
- Copes Lookout · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mink Hollow Primitive Bicycle Corridor: 0.9 mi
- Stony Clove Unit: 2.5 mi
- Platte Clove Road Unit: 2.8 mi
- Warner Creek North Unit: 3.5 mi
- Warner Creek South Unit: 3.6 mi
- Spruce Top: 0.9 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Olderbark Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Little Rocky Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Twin Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 4.3 mi
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 6.1 mi
- Bearsville Park: 6.9 mi
- Andy Lee Field: 7.1 mi
- Rick Volz Field: 7.2 mi
- Old Mill Falls: 4.5 mi
- Plattekill Falls: 4.6 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 4.6 mi
- Lower Bridal Veil Falls: 4.7 mi
- Upper Ghost (Japanese) Falls: 4.7 mi
- New York State Forest Preserve Centennial: 2.0 mi
- Boarding House: 4.5 mi
- Tory Fort: 4.8 mi
- Layman's Monument: 6.5 mi
- Keegan Bell: 7.0 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 5.7 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 5.7 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 7.3 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 7.9 mi
- Kiersted House: 12.2 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 12.3 mi
- West Landing: 14.2 mi
- South Landing: 14.2 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 15.0 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 15.3 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 5.2 mi
- The Great Knot: 8.3 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 8.3 mi
- Opus 40: 9.4 mi
- The Query Family: 9.5 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 2.0 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 4.7 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 5.1 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 5.5 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 5.8 mi
- The Walled Garden: 13.6 mi
- The Upper Garden: 13.6 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 15.4 mi
- Rough Garden: 15.7 mi
- Ellipse: 15.7 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 3.5 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 11.5 mi
- Bear Wallow: 15.8 mi
- Bear Wallow: 15.8 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 16.5 mi
- Rail Explorers: 7.9 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 8.4 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 11.0 mi
- Pratt Rock: 17.4 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 18.1 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 2.1 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 6.1 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 13.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.4 miles of Plateau Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | NW 314° | 1,228.34 m | 4.0 mi |
| Black Dome | NNE 16° | 1,217.37 m | 9.5 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | NNE 12° | 1,204.87 m | 9.4 mi |
| Blackhead | NNE 22° | 1,200.91 m | 9.7 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | WNW 289° | 1,186 m | 6.3 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | ESE 110° | 1,160 m | 1.3 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | WNW 296° | 1,140 m | 3.9 mi |
| Rusk Mountain | NW 310° | 1,123.493 m | 6.9 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 | 20:37 |
| 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 | 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357598553
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