Spruce Top
Spruce Top rises to 662 m in New York. Santanoni Peak stands 1,401 m to the east, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Buck Mountain, a peak 2.6 miles away. Adirondack Trail passes 7.6 miles off. 141 named places lie within 25 miles, 49 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in the United States of America.
Wikidata Q34910242, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 662 m
How to reach it
- 7.6 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 8.6 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 8.9 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 17.2 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Lake Placid Olympic Jumping Complex K-120 Meter Jump Observation Deck · 23 mi
- Balfour Lake overlook · 24 mi
- Viewpoint to East · 29 mi
- Snow Mountain Lookout · 29 mi
141 named places within 25 miles
- Buck Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Rock Pond Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Platt Hill: 4.3 mi
- Grampus Lake Mountain: 5.6 mi
- Mud Pond Mountain: 5.6 mi
- Long Lake Town Beach: 9.3 mi
- Town of Long Lake Municipal Park: 9.5 mi
- Mt Sabattis Town Park: 9.8 mi
- Flanders Park: 9.9 mi
- Baldwin Park: 19.2 mi
- Upper Falls: 3.3 mi
- Raquette Falls: 3.7 mi
- Lower Falls: 3.8 mi
- Millers Falls: 8.0 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 14.2 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 13.7 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 18.4 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 19.5 mi
- Saint Regis Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area: 21.2 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 22.2 mi
- Pendleton: 11.9 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 15.6 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 16.7 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 18.4 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 19.6 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 8.8 mi
- Tupper Lake History Museum: 9.4 mi
- Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake: 16.4 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 19.5 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 19.9 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 7.7 mi
- DEC Little Tupper Lake Headquarters: 10.1 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 11.0 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 15.4 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 21.0 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 14.2 mi
- Wallface: 16.7 mi
- The Crags: 23.1 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 24.1 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 24.5 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 10.4 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 20.2 mi
- Peace Garden: 23.7 mi
- Goolds Garden: 24.2 mi
- Blue Mountain Lake Beach: 17.4 mi
- Silver Beach: 22.6 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 22.9 mi
- Cranberry Lake Day Use Area on eastern Fred Island: 24.6 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 14.2 mi
- Tahawus: 16.2 mi
- Rafting: 22.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Spruce Top. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santanoni Peak | E 97° | 1,401 m | 11.9 mi |
| Panther Peak | E 91° | 1,358 m | 11.8 mi |
| Seward Mountain | ENE 65° | 1,319 m | 9.3 mi |
| Donaldson Mountain | ENE 66° | 1,238 m | 8.6 mi |
| Seymour Mountain | ENE 69° | 1,236 m | 10.5 mi |
| Mount Emmons | ENE 70° | 1,226 m | 8.2 mi |
| Couchsachraga Peak | E 92° | 1,157 m | 10.3 mi |
| Henderson Mountain | E 91° | 1,130 m | 13.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:32 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 20:01 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:35 | 16:22 |
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 | 17 | 25 | 39 | 53 | 61 | 66 | 64 | 57 | 45 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tupper Lake Sunmount, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357590809
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