Prospect Hill
Prospect Hill rises to 582 m in New York. Mount Everett stands 793 m to the southeast, 4.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Sunset Rock, a peak 0.7 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 17 miles off.
The story
Mountain in the United States of America; GeoNames ID = 4365851.
Wikidata Q34899377, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 582 m
How to reach it
- 16.6 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Sunset Rock: 0.7 mi
- Dugway Hill: 0.7 mi
- Mount Whitbeck: 1.0 mi
- Mount Fray: 1.0 mi
- Mount Sterling: 1.2 mi
- Garrett Garden and Green: 3.5 mi
- Copake Town Park: 3.8 mi
- Town Park: 3.9 mi
- French Park: 4.0 mi
- McAllister Park: 6.4 mi
- Plaintain Pond: 4.4 mi
- Schenob Brook Acec: 4.8 mi
- Schenob Brook Fen: 5.0 mi
- Green River Access: 5.2 mi
- Camp Hi-Rock: 5.3 mi
- Sheffield Historical Society: 7.2 mi
- Gallery: 8.7 mi
- Circle Museum: 8.7 mi
- Chesterwood Museum: 11.1 mi
- C H Pease Museum: 11.3 mi
- Copake Iron Furnace: 2.1 mi
- Battlesite Monument: 5.2 mi
- Tri-State Marker: 6.4 mi
- Searles Castle: 7.2 mi
- Dough Boy: 11.5 mi
- Newsboy Statue: 6.6 mi
- Liebowitz Letter: 6.9 mi
- Naked Lady: 7.2 mi
- Diving Lady: 11.4 mi
- Divine Mercy: 13.5 mi
- Bash Bish Falls: 1.9 mi
- Upper Falls: 4.9 mi
- Lower Falls: 5.0 mi
- Bear Rock Falls: 6.2 mi
- Sages Ravine Falls: 6.6 mi
- Naumkeag Garden: 13.3 mi
- Berkshire Botanical Garden: 13.4 mi
- Heritage Garden: 14.5 mi
- Walled Garden: 16.7 mi
- Old Dutch Village Garden Club: 22.1 mi
- Devil’s Pulpit: 10.4 mi
- Kennedy Cliffs: 17.8 mi
- The Beech: 22.1 mi
- Space Invaders: 22.1 mi
- Squirrel Wall: 22.1 mi
- Orchard City Millage Sign: 6.9 mi
- Sheffield Covered Bridge: 6.9 mi
- Giant's Thumb: 12.5 mi
- Beckley Furnace: 13.5 mi
- Town Hill Farm: 14.5 mi
- East Beach: 11.6 mi
- West Beach: 12.4 mi
- Oakdale Beach: 16.7 mi
- Adams Point Beach: 19.0 mi
- County Beach: 22.6 mi
- Questing: 12.2 mi
- Dudley Town: 24.2 mi
- Guilder Pond Picnic area: 3.6 mi
- Pond off Chair Factory Road: 20.4 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 23.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.6 miles of Prospect Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Everett | SE 135° | 793 m | 4.0 mi |
| Mount Frissell | S 177° | 747 m | 6.3 mi |
| Mount Ashley | S 173° | 725 m | 5.6 mi |
| Mount Race | SE 146° | 723 m | 5.1 mi |
| Bear Mountain | SSE 166° | 708 m | 7.0 mi |
| Brace Mountain | S 182° | 706 m | 6.8 mi |
| South Brace Mountain | S 181° | 702 m | 7.2 mi |
| Round Mountain | S 175° | 695 m | 6.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:52 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:40 | 16:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 26 | 34 | 47 | 57 | 66 | 71 | 70 | 62 | 50 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Copake, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358276682
Day trips start here
- Great Barrington · 7 mi
- Stockbridge · 13 mi
- Monterey · 14 mi
- Berkshires · 17 mi
- Lee · 17 mi
- Lenox · 18 mi
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