Samuels Point
Samuels Point rises to 879 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the west, 3.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Cross Mountain, a peak 1.5 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.
The story
Cliff in Ulster County, New York, United States.
Wikidata Q55632463, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 879 m
How to reach it
- 13.3 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 16 mi
- Copes Lookout · 18 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 18 mi
- Hayes Lookout · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cross Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Wittenberg Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Terrace Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Cornell Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Mount Pleasant: 2.4 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 2.6 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 2.8 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 4.4 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 5.8 mi
- Parish Field: 5.9 mi
- Oak Ridge Unit: 1.6 mi
- Future DEC: 2.5 mi
- Bushkill Fishing Unit: 2.6 mi
- Mount Tremper Unit: 3.1 mi
- Watson Hollow Unit: 3.2 mi
- Cornell Falls: 2.8 mi
- Otter Falls: 6.1 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 7.4 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 7.5 mi
- Metacahonts Falls: 8.3 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 3.8 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 3.9 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 5.7 mi
- Yale Quarry: 6.2 mi
- J. Waldo Smith Monument: 6.2 mi
- Cornell Crack: 2.4 mi
- Giant Ledge: 5.2 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 6.8 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 8.1 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 12.1 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 5.6 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 10.2 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 11.9 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 13.1 mi
- Hurley Heritage Museum: 13.6 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 2.3 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 5.7 mi
- Winnisook: 10.0 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 14.4 mi
- The Great Knot: 14.5 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 12.2 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 12.2 mi
- Kingston Point Beach: 18.3 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 18.7 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 19.0 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 16.0 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 17.5 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 19.3 mi
- Formal Gardens: 20.1 mi
- Rough Garden: 20.1 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 3.6 mi
- Rail Explorers: 5.6 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 14.8 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 17.7 mi
- Swimming Hole: 18.5 mi
- Bear Wallow: 5.1 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 5.3 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 5.8 mi
- Piped Spring: 11.1 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 12.2 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 12.4 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 15.0 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 20.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.5 miles of Samuels Point. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | W 270° | 1,266 m | 3.9 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | W 274° | 1,174 m | 2.4 mi |
| Table Mountain | WSW 240° | 1,166 m | 5.7 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | SW 235° | 1,164 m | 5.6 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | WNW 288° | 1,153 m | 2.1 mi |
| Panther Mountain | NW 312° | 1,135 m | 5.9 mi |
| Lone Mountain | WSW 244° | 1,128 m | 4.6 mi |
| Friday Mountain | WSW 254° | 1,125 m | 2.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:44 | 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 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/7624362318
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