South Mountain
South Mountain rises to 666 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the northwest, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Watson Hollow Unit, a nature reserve 0.8 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 9.9 miles off.
The story
South Mountain, 2,185 feet in elevation, is a lesser summit in the New York Catskill Mountains massif that includes Ashokan High Point, Mombaccus Mountain and Little Rocky. Its northwest slope descends to Watson Hollow, its southwest slope to South Hollow and its eastern side rises above High Point Mountain Road in the Olive hamlet of West Shokan. Following a 2005 court ruling against the town of Olive, a prominently visible cell phone tower was erected on a patch of private property on the ridge north of the South Mountain summit.
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Wikidata Q34834209, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 666 m
How to reach it
- 9.9 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 12 mi
- White Dot · 13 mi
- Copes Lookout · 14 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Watson Hollow Unit: 0.8 mi
- Future DEC: 1.2 mi
- Future DEC: 1.3 mi
- Bushkill Fishing Unit: 1.6 mi
- Oak Ridge Unit: 2.1 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 1.5 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 3.6 mi
- Tongore Park: 4.5 mi
- Brown's Station: 4.6 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 5.5 mi
- Ashokan High Point: 1.7 mi
- Little High Point: 1.9 mi
- Hanover Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Little Point: 2.5 mi
- Southeast Little Rocky: 2.9 mi
- ruins: 3.3 mi
- Yale Quarry: 3.4 mi
- J. Waldo Smith Monument: 4.2 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 5.8 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 7.2 mi
- Metacahonts Falls: 4.8 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 5.0 mi
- Cornell Falls: 5.6 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 6.4 mi
- Vernooy Kill Falls: 6.6 mi
- Samuels Point: 3.3 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 4.9 mi
- Cornell Crack: 4.9 mi
- Giant Ledge: 8.1 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 8.8 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 9.1 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 10.3 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 10.9 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 11.7 mi
- Hurley Heritage Museum: 11.9 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 3.5 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 9.2 mi
- Gnome Chomsky: 11.2 mi
- Winnisook: 13.2 mi
- Opus 40: 15.2 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 9.4 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 15.3 mi
- Scuba Diving Access Area: 15.5 mi
- Lake Minnewaska Beach: 15.6 mi
- Lake Awosting Beach: 16.9 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 14.5 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 15.8 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 16.0 mi
- SUNY New Paltz Student Garden: 18.3 mi
- Formal Gardens: 19.7 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 6.9 mi
- Rail Explorers: 9.1 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 11.5 mi
- Swimming Hole: 14.9 mi
- Overturned 1938 Truck: 16.0 mi
- Bear Wallow: 1.6 mi
- Bear Wallow: 1.7 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 2.1 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 6.0 mi
- Piped Spring: 10.7 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 15.3 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 18.3 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 20.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.8 miles of South Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | NW 306° | 1,266 m | 5.9 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | NW 318° | 1,174 m | 4.8 mi |
| Table Mountain | W 276° | 1,165.86 m | 5.8 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | W 273° | 1,164.03 m | 5.4 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | NW 326° | 1,152.75 m | 4.9 mi |
| Panther Mountain | NW 325° | 1,135.08 m | 9.1 mi |
| Lone Mountain | WNW 285° | 1,127.76 m | 5.2 mi |
| Friday Mountain | NW 307° | 1,125 m | 4.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:33 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:54 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 15:45 | 16:30 |
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, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357590262
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