Spruce Top
Spruce Top rises to 1,030 m in New York. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the west-northwest, 3.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Plateau Mountain, a peak 0.9 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 21 miles off.
The story
Spruce Top is a mountain located in Greene County, New York southwest of Tannersville, New York. Located to the southwest is Plateau Mountain and to the southeast is Sugarloaf Mountain. Spruce Top drains into Cook Brook and Roaring Kill, which both flow in a general northeast direction before converging with the Schoharie Creek.
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Wikidata Q34910231, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,030 m
How to reach it
- 21.4 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 23 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 26 mi
- Copes Lookout · 27 mi
- Hayes Lookout · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Plateau Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Twin Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Olderbark Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Clum Hill: 3.0 mi
- Mink Hollow Primitive Bicycle Corridor: 1.7 mi
- Platte Clove Road Unit: 1.9 mi
- Stony Clove Unit: 2.9 mi
- Roundtop Mountain Unit: 3.1 mi
- Railroad Bend Unit: 3.3 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 3.3 mi
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 5.2 mi
- Bearsville Park: 7.7 mi
- Andy Lee Field: 7.8 mi
- Rick Volz Field: 8.0 mi
- Old Mill Falls: 4.4 mi
- Plattekill Falls: 4.4 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 4.5 mi
- Lower Bridal Veil Falls: 4.5 mi
- Hells Hole Falls: 4.6 mi
- New York State Forest Preserve Centennial: 1.9 mi
- Tory Fort: 4.2 mi
- Boarding House: 4.4 mi
- Layman's Monument: 5.8 mi
- stone house: 6.4 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 4.9 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 5.0 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 8.0 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 8.7 mi
- Kiersted House: 12.2 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 1.9 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 4.5 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 4.6 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 5.4 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 5.7 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 4.7 mi
- The Great Knot: 8.6 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 9.0 mi
- Opus 40: 9.8 mi
- The Query Family: 9.8 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 12.4 mi
- West Landing: 14.3 mi
- South Landing: 14.4 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 15.3 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 15.7 mi
- The Walled Garden: 13.5 mi
- The Upper Garden: 13.5 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 15.7 mi
- Rough Garden: 15.9 mi
- Ellipse: 15.9 mi
- Rail Explorers: 8.7 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 9.3 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 10.2 mi
- Pratt Rock: 17.1 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 18.7 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 3.4 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 10.6 mi
- Bear Wallow: 16.7 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 17.4 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 18.0 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 1.9 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 5.6 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 13.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.7 miles of Spruce Top. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | WNW 300° | 1,228 m | 3.7 mi |
| Black Dome | NNE 16° | 1,217 m | 8.6 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | NNE 11° | 1,205 m | 8.4 mi |
| Blackhead | NNE 22° | 1,201 m | 8.7 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | W 281° | 1,186 m | 6.3 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | SSW 200° | 1,169 m | 0.9 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | SE 146° | 1,160 m | 1.6 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | WNW 282° | 1,140 m | 4.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:54 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:43 | 16:28 |
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 | 22 | 24 | 31 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 60 | 48 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 4.9 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 6.3 | 6.3 | 7.0 | 4.9 | 7.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Platte Clove, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357590805
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