Sugarloaf Mountain
Sugarloaf Mountain rises to 740 m in New York. Algonquin Peak stands 1,555 m to the south, 5.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Peacock Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73) passes 2.1 miles off.
The story
mountain in Essex County, New York, United States of America (GNIS ID = 966737)
Wikidata Q34842769, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 740 m
How to reach it
- 2.1 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 4.1 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 15.9 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 18.9 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Peacock Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Heaven Hill: 2.2 mi
- Mount Jo: 2.3 mi
- Nye Mountain - North Peak: 2.7 mi
- Mount Van Hoevenberg: 2.8 mi
- Weeping Winds: 5.3 mi
- Wallface: 6.2 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 6.3 mi
- The Courthouse: 7.6 mi
- Moss Cliff: 8.7 mi
- Mid's Park: 4.8 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 4.9 mi
- Brewster Park: 4.9 mi
- Baldwin Park: 9.5 mi
- Prescott Park: 9.9 mi
- Rocky Falls: 3.4 mi
- Wanika Falls: 3.8 mi
- MacIntyre Falls: 4.2 mi
- Cascade Falls: 5.7 mi
- Indian Falls: 6.2 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 2.3 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 2.6 mi
- Skyride: 2.7 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex: 2.8 mi
- Cliffside Coaster: 3.0 mi
- John Brown Memorial Statue: 2.3 mi
- 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron: 3.1 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 3.1 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 4.0 mi
- World War Memorial: 4.5 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 1.7 mi
- Henry's Woods: 3.0 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 8.1 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 9.6 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 10.6 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 4.4 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 4.4 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 10.3 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 10.3 mi
- Adirondack history center museum: 19.5 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 11.5 mi
- Peace Garden: 19.9 mi
- Goolds Garden: 19.9 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 23.9 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 4.4 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 10.9 mi
- Tahawus: 12.2 mi
- Footbridge Park: 19.1 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 19.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.6 miles of Sugarloaf Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Peak | S 181° | 1,555 m | 5.3 mi |
| Iroquois Peak | S 186° | 1,472 m | 5.8 mi |
| Boundary Peak | S 185° | 1,471 m | 5.6 mi |
| Mount Colden | S 169° | 1,436 m | 6.5 mi |
| Wright Peak | S 177° | 1,389 m | 4.7 mi |
| Mount Marshall | SSW 192° | 1,333 m | 6.5 mi |
| Table Top Mountain | SSE 148° | 1,312 m | 6.5 mi |
| Big Slide Mountain | ESE 115° | 1,280 m | 6.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:13 | 19:59 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:33 | 16:21 |
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 | 18 | 26 | 39 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 21 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lake Placid 2 S, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357591760
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- Elizabethtown · 19 mi
- Westport · 27 mi
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