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.
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
- view · 26 mi
- Cascade Mountain · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Buck Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Rock Pond Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Platt Hill: 4.3 mi
- Buck Mountain: 4.8 mi
- Grampus Lake 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
- Long Lake Boat Tours: 9.2 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 13.7 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 13.7 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 18.4 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 19.5 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
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 7.7 mi
- DEC Little Tupper Lake Headquarters: 10.1 mi
- DEC Little Tupper Lake Headquarters: 11.0 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 11.0 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 15.4 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
- 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 13.8 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 |
| Sawtooth #1 | ENE 64° | 1,181 m | 13.7 mi |
| Sawtooth #2 | ENE 61° | 1,164 m | 13.0 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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