Terrace Mountain
Terrace Mountain rises to 721 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the southwest, 3.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Cross Mountain, a peak 1.2 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.
The story
Terrace Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York south-southwest of Phoenicia. Wittenberg Mountain is located southwest, Fork Ridge is located west-northwest, and Cross Mountain is located east of Terrace Mountain.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q34812065, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 721 m
How to reach it
- 15.7 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 19 mi
- Copes Lookout · 20 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 20 mi
- Hayes Lookout · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cross Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Wittenberg Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Mount Pleasant: 1.5 mi
- Cornell Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Romer Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 3.4 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 4.0 mi
- Parish Field: 4.1 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 5.0 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 6.6 mi
- Woodland Valley Unit: 2.0 mi
- Romer Mountain Unit: 2.9 mi
- Mount Pleasant Unit: 2.9 mi
- Mount Tremper Unit: 3.0 mi
- Simpson Ski Slope: 3.6 mi
- Cornell Falls: 1.7 mi
- Otter Falls: 4.3 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 8.2 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 9.8 mi
- High Falls: 10.2 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 2.9 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 3.2 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 4.9 mi
- J. Waldo Smith Monument: 8.6 mi
- Yale Quarry: 8.6 mi
- Cornell Crack: 2.0 mi
- Samuels Point: 2.6 mi
- Giant Ledge: 3.1 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 8.1 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 9.3 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 3.9 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 11.2 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 11.7 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 14.2 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 15.5 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 3.8 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 4.3 mi
- Winnisook: 7.7 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 13.0 mi
- The Great Knot: 15.3 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 9.8 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 14.6 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 20.0 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 20.2 mi
- Kingston Point Beach: 20.2 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 18.0 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 19.5 mi
- Rough Garden: 21.4 mi
- Formal Gardens: 21.5 mi
- Ellipse: 21.5 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 2.9 mi
- Rail Explorers: 3.9 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 17.2 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 19.7 mi
- Pratt Rock: 20.0 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 5.9 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 7.3 mi
- Bear Wallow: 7.4 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 10.9 mi
- Piped Spring: 11.2 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 11.4 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 13.6 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 21.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Terrace Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | SW 232° | 1,266 m | 3.2 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | SSW 209° | 1,174 m | 2.1 mi |
| Table Mountain | SW 217° | 1,166 m | 5.9 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | SSW 212° | 1,164 m | 6.0 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | SSW 203° | 1,153 m | 1.5 mi |
| Panther Mountain | WNW 304° | 1,135 m | 3.6 mi |
| Lone Mountain | SW 214° | 1,128 m | 4.9 mi |
| Big Indian Mountain | W 274° | 1,127 m | 8.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:44 | 16:29 |
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 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357592460
Take the scenic way to Terrace Mountain.
Byway plans around your taste, mapped places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.