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Roundtop Mountain

Roundtop Mountain, seen from above at true elevation

Roundtop Mountain rises to 605 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the west-southwest, 9.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Tobias, a peak 0.9 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 14 miles off.

About

The story

Roundtop Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York north-northwest of Wittenberg. Beetree Hill is located east-northeast, Johns Mountain is located east-northeast, and Mount Tobias is located north-northwest of Roundtop Mountain.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wikidata Q34831613, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
605 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.04620, -74.20792

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Nature reserves
Parks
  • Bearsville Park: 2.8 mi
  • Rick Volz Field: 3.2 mi
  • Catskills Visitor Center: 3.4 mi
  • The Comeau Property: 4.2 mi
  • Woodstock Waterfall Park: 4.6 mi
Waterfalls
Historic sites: 51
Cliffs: 39
Museums: 35
Artworks: 21
Beaches: 18
  • Tongore Park Beach: 12.4 mi
  • Saugerties Beach: 13.3 mi
  • Ulster Landing Beach: 13.8 mi
  • West Landing: 14.4 mi
  • South Landing: 14.4 mi
Gardens: 18
  • Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 12.9 mi
  • Rondout Community Garden: 14.3 mi
  • Blithewood Garden: 15.0 mi
  • Rough Garden: 15.0 mi
  • Formal Gardens: 15.0 mi
Attractions: 12
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 4.1 mi
  • Rail Explorers: 5.6 mi
  • Hudson River Cruises: 14.6 mi
  • Pompey’s Cave: 16.3 mi
  • The Old Game Farm: 16.8 mi
Springs: 9
  • Devil's Acre spring: 8.3 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 9.3 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 9.3 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 10.1 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 11.9 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Lighthouses: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.4 miles of Roundtop Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Slide MountainWSW 250°1,266 m9.7 mi
Hunter MountainN 353°1,228.34 m9.2 mi
West Kill MountainNNW 334°1,186 m9.4 mi
Cornell MountainWSW 248°1,174 m8.2 mi
Plateau MountainNNE 15°1,168.91 m6.6 mi
Sugarloaf MountainNNE 27°1,160 m6.6 mi
Wittenberg MountainWSW 250°1,152.75 m7.6 mi
Southwest Hunter MountainNNW 347°1,140 m8.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3219:09
June solstice05:2219:5420:37
September equinox06:4518:1918:56
December solstice07:2215:4416:29

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222431435463686660483828
Precip in4.94.05.75.24.86.05.56.36.37.04.97.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Platte Clove, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 963043 — Roundtop Mountain, Ulster County, New York.

OpenStreetMap element node/357583098

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