Slide Mountain
Slide Mountain rises to 1,091 m in New York. Whiteface Mountain stands 1,466 m to the north, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Black Mountain, a peak 1.0 miles away. Olympic Trail passes 2.5 miles off.
The story
Mountain in the United States of America.
Wikidata Q34908047, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,091 m
How to reach it
- 2.5 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 3.0 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 18.2 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 21.2 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Black Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Kilburn Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Sentinel Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Pitchoff Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Scotts Cobble: 2.8 mi
- Weeping Winds: 2.5 mi
- Moss Cliff: 4.4 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 4.7 mi
- The Courthouse: 7.2 mi
- Great Wall: 9.2 mi
- Mid's Park: 5.0 mi
- Brewster Park: 5.0 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 5.1 mi
- East Branch Community Trails: 5.3 mi
- Town of Wilmington Beach: 8.1 mi
- Monument Falls: 2.8 mi
- Cascade Falls: 3.8 mi
- High Falls (Main): 5.0 mi
- High Falls (Mini): 5.0 mi
- High Falls (Rainbow): 5.0 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Memorial: 2.4 mi
- 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron: 4.0 mi
- John Brown Memorial Statue: 4.5 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 4.8 mi
- World War Memorial: 4.8 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 4.4 mi
- Henry's Woods: 5.1 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 5.8 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 7.5 mi
- Four Peaks Tract: 8.2 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex: 4.0 mi
- Skyride: 4.1 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 4.2 mi
- Lake Placid Bobsled Experience at Mt. Van Hoevenberg: 4.4 mi
- Mountain Pass Lodge: 4.4 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 4.9 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 4.9 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 12.3 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 12.5 mi
- Adirondack history center museum: 15.2 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 13.4 mi
- Goolds Garden: 21.0 mi
- Peace Garden: 21.1 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 4.8 mi
- Westport Beach: 23.3 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 6.1 mi
- Footbridge Park: 14.8 mi
- Tahawus: 17.6 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 20.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.6 miles of Slide Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteface Mountain | N 352° | 1,466 m | 6.2 mi |
| Esther Mountain | N 359° | 1,293 m | 7.6 mi |
| Big Slide Mountain | S 173° | 1,280 m | 6.6 mi |
| Cascade Mountain | SSE 162° | 1,249 m | 4.2 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | N 359° | 1,242 m | 7.0 mi |
| Porter Mountain | SSE 160° | 1,240 m | 4.7 mi |
| Yard Mountain | S 179° | 1,216 m | 7.1 mi |
| Kilburn Mountain | N 7° | 1,182 m | 1.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:59 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:32 | 16:20 |
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 | 18 | 26 | 39 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 21 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lake Placid 2 S, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 965414 — Slide Mountain, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357589797
Day trips start here
- Elizabethtown · 16 mi
- Westport · 23 mi
- Essex · 26 mi
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