South Mountain
South Mountain rises to 220 m in New York. Rockhouse Mountain stands 387 m to the west-northwest, 7.5 miles off. The nearest named place is High Tor, a peak less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 12 miles off.
The story
mountain in Rockland County, New York, United States of America
Wikidata Q34909461, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 220 m
How to reach it
- 11.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 13.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 17.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 24.1 mi off the Western Highlands Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Pinwheel Vista · 25 mi
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- High Tor: 0.0 mi
- Little Tor: 1.3 mi
- Treason Hill: 2.2 mi
- Collaberg Mountain: 3.7 mi
- Prickly Pear Hill: 4.0 mi
- Brickhead Truth: 0.4 mi
- River Arch: 5.4 mi
- Arc: 6.8 mi
- Tappan Zee: 7.6 mi
- Approach: 7.7 mi
- Haverstraw African American Memorial Park: 0.8 mi
- Community Park and Sandpit: 1.4 mi
- Historical Society of Rockland County Grounds: 1.6 mi
- Zukor Park: 1.7 mi
- Kennedy-Dells Park: 1.9 mi
- Treason Site: 1.2 mi
- Treason Site: 1.4 mi
- Vickers & Sons Bell: 1.6 mi
- Kevin Landau Memorial: 3.1 mi
- New City Welcome area and fountain: 3.1 mi
- History Center Museum: 1.6 mi
- Blauvelt Homestead: 1.6 mi
- KinoSaito Arts Center: 4.5 mi
- Old Croton Aqueduct Sing Sing Kill Weir Chamber: 5.5 mi
- Sing Sing Prison Museum: 5.6 mi
- Oscawana Island Nature Preserve: 3.5 mi
- George's Island Park: 3.6 mi
- Gurnee Park: 3.6 mi
- Graff Sanctuary: 3.6 mi
- Oscawana Preserve: 3.7 mi
- Scenic Overlook: 3.6 mi
- Hell Hole: 9.6 mi
- Pulpit: 9.8 mi
- Raven's Rock: 10.0 mi
- Lemon Squeezer: 10.0 mi
- Van Cortlandt Manor: 4.6 mi
- Timp-Torne Trail: 6.5 mi
- Dunderberg Spiral Railway: 6.5 mi
- Philipsburg Manor: 8.6 mi
- Headless Horseman Bridge Sign: 8.6 mi
- Ossining Organic Community Garden: 5.8 mi
- 9/11 Memorial Garden: 7.3 mi
- Herbert Kurz Peace Garden: 7.3 mi
- Memorial Park Butterfly Garden: 7.4 mi
- Peabody Monarch Garden: 8.1 mi
- Brick Beach: 4.0 mi
- Ten Eycks Beach: 4.1 mi
- Old Sebago Beach: 8.7 mi
- New Sebago Beach: 8.9 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach Club: 17.9 mi
- Kakiat Park: 8.3 mi
- Reservable Picnic Area: 14.3 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 16.1 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 16.8 mi
- Area B: 17.8 mi
- MacMillan Brook Falls: 14.2 mi
- Mine Hole Falls: 18.1 mi
- Farms Falls: 18.7 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 19.6 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 20.2 mi
- Doodletown: 8.0 mi
- Monksville: 18.0 mi
- Dicktown: 22.2 mi
- The Silver Spring: 24.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 24.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.8 miles of South Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockhouse Mountain | WNW 298° | 387 m | 7.5 mi |
| Breakneck Mountain | W 277° | 384 m | 7.0 mi |
| Jackie Jones Mountain | WNW 294° | 383 m | 6.1 mi |
| West Mountain | NNW 340° | 382 m | 7.1 mi |
| Ladentown Mountain | W 279° | 378 m | 6.5 mi |
| Squirrel Swamp Mountain | W 270° | 378 m | 6.9 mi |
| Big Hill | WNW 288° | 374 m | 6.3 mi |
| Cranberry Mountain | WNW 281° | 366 m | 7.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 19:51 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:46 | 16:31 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 36 | 48 | 58 | 67 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Yorktown HTS 1W, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 970633 — South Mountain, Rockland County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357596615
Day trips start here
- New City · 3 mi
- Croton-on-Hudson · 4 mi
- Rockland County · 4 mi
- Stony Point · 4 mi
- Ossining · 6 mi
- Briarcliff Manor · 7 mi
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