The Pinnacle
The Pinnacle rises to 416 m in New York. Frost Hill stands 696 m to the west-northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Botsford Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 2.3 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 21 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Yates County, New York, United States.
Wikidata Q34812551, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 416 m
How to reach it
- 20.5 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 23.7 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Red Jacket Park: 4.8 mi
- Prattsburgh Village Square Park: 9.6 mi
- Naples Community Park: 12.7 mi
- Naples City Hall Park: 13.5 mi
- Grimes Glen: 14.1 mi
- Barrington Hill: 8.2 mi
- East Hill: 8.2 mi
- Sprout Hill: 8.6 mi
- West Italy Hill: 9.0 mi
- Lazarus Hill: 11.2 mi
- Botsford Nature Preserve: 2.3 mi
- West River Preserve: 10.8 mi
- High Tor Wildlife Management Area - Clark Gully: 11.0 mi
- High Tor Wildlife Management Area - Parrish Gully: 11.0 mi
- Great Hill Nature Preserve: 11.3 mi
- Yates County History Center: 5.7 mi
- Narcissa Prentiss House: 9.4 mi
- Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum: 10.6 mi
- Greyton H. Taylor Wine Museum: 12.7 mi
- Glenn H. Curtiss Museum: 15.1 mi
- Silver Thread Falls: 14.2 mi
- Upper Falls: 15.6 mi
- Hectors Falls: 18.9 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 20.6 mi
- Central Cascade: 20.6 mi
- Rue Claire Lavender Farm and Artisan Chocolate: 14.3 mi
- Muddy Fingers Farm: 15.4 mi
- Bristol Mountain: 16.7 mi
- Birth place of Zebedee Coltrin: 16.7 mi
- Finger Lakes Welcome Center: 20.0 mi
- Cornplanter: 4.8 mi
- William Smith Sculpture: 18.9 mi
- 'The Scissors' Sculpture: 19.0 mi
- Elizabeth Blackwell Sculpture: 19.1 mi
- I♥NY: 20.0 mi
- Castle Point: 11.4 mi
- High Point: 15.6 mi
- The Jumpoff: 16.0 mi
- Hi Banks: 18.1 mi
- Glen Cathedral: 20.7 mi
- Curtis Memorial: 14.6 mi
- Cayuga - Seneca Canal: 19.9 mi
- Peter James Cannon Memorial Rock: 20.2 mi
- Roundhouse: 20.9 mi
- American Civil War Memorial: 24.7 mi
- South Entrance/Exit Lane Bed (Entrance Lane Side): 19.6 mi
- North Entrance/Exit Lane Employee Parking Side Turf Area: 19.7 mi
- North Entrance/Exit Area (Exit lane Side Bed): 19.7 mi
- East Castle Street Butterfly Gardens: 19.8 mi
- Bristol Harbour Beach: 14.1 mi
- Kershaw Park Small Marine Craft Launch Area: 19.7 mi
- Kershaw Beach: 19.7 mi
- Kanona Rest Area: 19.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.7 miles of The Pinnacle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frost Hill | WNW 295° | 696 m | 17.2 mi |
| Gannett Hill | WNW 295° | 690 m | 15.3 mi |
| Cleveland Hill | WNW 289° | 671 m | 15.5 mi |
| Canadice Hill | WNW 285° | 671 m | 20.2 mi |
| Worden Hill | WNW 301° | 666 m | 17.1 mi |
| High Point Hill | W 280° | 659 m | 15.9 mi |
| Quail Hill | WNW 297° | 654 m | 18.2 mi |
| Potter Hill | WSW 245° | 653 m | 22.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:44 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 20:08 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 15:53 | 16:39 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 27 | 34 | 46 | 58 | 67 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 31 |
| Precip in | 1.5 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Penn YAN AP, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357592634
Day trips start here
- Finger Lakes · 15 mi
- Geneva · 20 mi
- Canandaigua · 21 mi
- Watkins Glen · 21 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 25 mi
- Trumansburg · 25 mi
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