Rusk Mountain
Rusk Mountain rises to 1,123 m in New York. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the east-southeast, 2.9 miles off. The nearest named place is East Rusk, a peak 0.9 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 26 miles off.
The story
Rusk Mountain is a peak located in the towns of Jewett and Lexington in Greene County, New York, United States. At 3,680 feet (1,120 m) in elevation, it is the 20th-highest peak in the Catskill Mountains and considered a member of the Catskill High Peaks. While there is no maintained trail, a bushwhack to the summit is considered relatively easy, and required for membership in the Catskill Mountain 3500 Club.
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Wikidata Q7380934, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,123.493 m
How to reach it
- 25.7 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- East Rusk: 0.9 mi
- Evergreen Mountain: 1.7 mi
- West Kill Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Colonels Chair: 2.4 mi
- Hunter Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Rusk Mountain Wild Forest: 2.5 mi
- Diamond Notch Primitive Bicycle Corridor: 2.5 mi
- Tumbleweed Unit: 3.0 mi
- Mill Hollow Unit: 3.8 mi
- Diamond Notch Unit: 4.1 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 7.4 mi
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 7.6 mi
- Ashland Park: 7.7 mi
- C.D. Lane Park: 8.1 mi
- Parish Field: 8.2 mi
- Diamond Notch Falls: 2.1 mi
- Red Falls: 9.4 mi
- Delmura Falls: 9.9 mi
- East Kill Falls: 10.1 mi
- Santa Cruz Falls: 10.1 mi
- New York State Forest Preserve Centennial: 4.9 mi
- Post WWII Memorial: 6.1 mi
- Burroughs Monument: 9.4 mi
- Tory Fort: 9.9 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 10.3 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 3.1 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 8.5 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 9.5 mi
- Zadock Pratt Museum: 11.1 mi
- Pratt Museum: 11.2 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 2.4 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 8.5 mi
- Winnisook: 10.9 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 14.3 mi
- The Great Knot: 15.1 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 4.9 mi
- Pratt Rocks: 10.3 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 10.5 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 11.0 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 12.0 mi
- The Upper Garden: 20.0 mi
- The Walled Garden: 20.0 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 22.3 mi
- Rough Garden: 22.5 mi
- Ellipse: 22.5 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 11.3 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 19.0 mi
- West Landing: 20.9 mi
- South Landing: 21.0 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 21.8 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 3.4 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 9.0 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 17.8 mi
- Bear Wallow: 19.0 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 19.3 mi
- Rail Explorers: 8.5 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 10.5 mi
- Pratt Rock: 10.6 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 14.0 mi
- Old Blenheim Covered Bridge: 20.5 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 2.0 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 4.7 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 19.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.4 miles of Rusk Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | ESE 124° | 1,228 m | 2.9 mi |
| Black Dome | ENE 59° | 1,217 m | 9.3 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | ENE 56° | 1,205 m | 8.7 mi |
| Blackhead | ENE 62° | 1,201 m | 10.0 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | SSW 195° | 1,186 m | 2.4 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | SE 130° | 1,169 m | 6.9 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | SE 126° | 1,160 m | 8.1 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | SSE 147° | 1,140 m | 3.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:55 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:43 | 16:29 |
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 | 21 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 61 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 27 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 3.1 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 6.0 | 4.8 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Jewett, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357583239
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