Stony Creek Mountain
Stony Creek Mountain rises to 910 m in New York. Santanoni Peak stands 1,401 m to the southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch, a nature reserve 1.6 miles away. Olympic Trail passes 1.6 miles off. 165 named places lie within 25 miles, 42 of them named summits.
The story
Stony Creek Mountain is a 2,986 ft (910.1 m) mountain located west of the Hamlet of Coreys in Franklin County in the northeastern Adirondacks, in New York. It is named after the nearby Stony Creek Ponds and Stony Creek, which are located to the west. Ampersand Mountain is located east-northeast and Middle Saranac Lake is located north of Stony Creek Mountain.
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Wikidata Q34930937, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 910 m
How to reach it
- 1.6 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 4.3 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 14.6 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 16.3 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Overlooks nearby
165 named places within 25 miles
- Plymouth Rock: 2.5 mi
- Ampersand Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Panther Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Van Dorrien Mountain: 4.7 mi
- Boot Bay Mountain: 5.3 mi
- Lower Falls: 5.9 mi
- Raquette Falls: 6.0 mi
- Upper Falls: 6.4 mi
- Millers Falls: 8.5 mi
- Wanika Falls: 10.5 mi
- Sunset Park Arboretum: 9.7 mi
- Baldwin Park: 9.7 mi
- Town of Harrietstown Bike Park: 9.7 mi
- Beaver Park: 9.7 mi
- Riverside Park: 9.8 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 10.2 mi
- Saint Regis Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area: 13.3 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 14.5 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 14.7 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 15.0 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 10.3 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 14.3 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 14.4 mi
- Kate Smith Memorial: 14.6 mi
- World War Memorial: 14.7 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 11.7 mi
- Wallface: 12.7 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 15.9 mi
- Moss Cliff: 18.9 mi
- Weeping Winds: 19.1 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 1.6 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 2.0 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 13.5 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 13.6 mi
- Henry's Woods: 14.1 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 8.6 mi
- Tupper Lake History Museum: 9.2 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 9.9 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 10.3 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 14.6 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 10.0 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 10.5 mi
- Peace Garden: 14.8 mi
- Goolds Garden: 15.3 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 14.7 mi
- Tahawus: 15.9 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 20.8 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 23.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Stony Creek Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santanoni Peak | SE 145° | 1,401 m | 11.7 mi |
| Panther Peak | SE 142° | 1,358 m | 10.8 mi |
| Seward Mountain | SE 142° | 1,319 m | 5.4 mi |
| Nye Mountain | E 101° | 1,271 m | 12.2 mi |
| Street Mountain | ESE 104° | 1,265 m | 12.2 mi |
| Donaldson Mountain | SSE 150° | 1,238 m | 5.4 mi |
| Seymour Mountain | SE 134° | 1,236 m | 6.4 mi |
| Mount Emmons | SSE 154° | 1,226 m | 5.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:31 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 20:01 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:18 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:34 | 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, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357591479
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