Popple Hill
Popple Hill rises to 862 m in New York. Mount Marcy stands 1,629 m to the east-northeast, 5.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Adams, a peak 0.8 miles away. Roosevelt-Marcy Trail passes 9.1 miles off.
The story
mountain in the United States of America
Wikidata Q34897663, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 862 m
How to reach it
- 9.1 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 11.7 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 14.2 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 20.0 mi off the Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Adams: 0.8 mi
- Sanford Hill: 2.0 mi
- Calamity Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Echo Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Cliff Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 3.9 mi
- Wallface: 4.4 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 6.9 mi
- Fish Hawk Cliffs: 10.1 mi
- Lost Lookout: 10.6 mi
- Hanging Spear Falls: 2.4 mi
- MacIntyre Falls: 6.1 mi
- Indian Falls: 6.4 mi
- Indian Falls: 6.4 mi
- Rocky Falls: 6.7 mi
- Indian Head Trailhead: 13.6 mi
- Mid's Park: 14.9 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 15.0 mi
- Brewster Park: 15.0 mi
- Frontier Town Campground, Equestrian and Day Use Area: 17.0 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 4.0 mi
- Cliffside Coaster: 11.0 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 11.0 mi
- Mountain Pass Lodge: 11.0 mi
- Lake Placid Bobsled Experience at Mt. Van Hoevenberg: 11.0 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 1.7 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 2.8 mi
- Mount Marcy First Ascent: 5.5 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 5.7 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 8.7 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 2.1 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 11.5 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 11.7 mi
- Henry's Woods: 13.1 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 15.9 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 14.5 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 14.5 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 18.1 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 18.3 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 22.9 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 19.4 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 21.1 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 24.7 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 14.5 mi
- Park beach: 21.2 mi
- Whitewater rafting: 23.3 mi
- Rafting: 23.9 mi
- Tahawus: 2.2 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 16.3 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 20.9 mi
- Footbridge Park: 23.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.6 miles of Popple Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Marcy | ENE 63° | 1,629 m | 5.5 mi |
| Algonquin Peak | NNE 21° | 1,555 m | 5.0 mi |
| Schofield Cobble | ENE 63° | 1,515 m | 5.3 mi |
| Mount Haystack | ENE 71° | 1,498 m | 6.4 mi |
| Mount Skylight | ENE 70° | 1,495 m | 4.8 mi |
| Iroquois Peak | NNE 16° | 1,472 m | 4.4 mi |
| Boundary Peak | NNE 18° | 1,471 m | 4.6 mi |
| Basin Mountain | ENE 65° | 1,468 m | 7.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:59 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:34 | 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 | 17 | 25 | 39 | 52 | 61 | 65 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newcomb, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 960952 — Popple Hill, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357577779
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- Elizabethtown · 23 mi
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