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. 246 named places lie within 25 miles, 59 of them named summits.
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
246 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
- Rocky Falls: 6.7 mi
- Bushnell Falls: 8.5 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
- Baldwin Park: 17.3 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
- 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
- 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 25 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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