Three Peaks
Three Peaks rises to 779 m in New York. Algonquin Peak stands 1,555 m to the southeast, 5.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Plane Crash Site, a historic site 0.4 miles away. High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73) passes 6.2 miles off. 219 named places lie within 25 miles, 43 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34812806, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 779 m
How to reach it
- 6.2 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 6.4 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 14.1 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 16.1 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Overlooks nearby
219 named places within 25 miles
- Wallface: 4.4 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 5.9 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 9.2 mi
- Weeping Winds: 9.7 mi
- The Courthouse: 11.2 mi
- Street Mountain - West Peak: 1.7 mi
- Nye Mountain - North Peak: 2.2 mi
- Nye Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Street Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Lost Pond Peak: 2.8 mi
- Wanika Falls: 0.6 mi
- Rocky Falls: 3.8 mi
- MacIntyre Falls: 5.1 mi
- Hanging Spear Falls: 7.6 mi
- Indian Falls: 7.9 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 7.6 mi
- Mid's Park: 7.6 mi
- Brewster Park: 7.7 mi
- Baldwin Park: 8.6 mi
- Prescott Park: 9.1 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 5.7 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 6.0 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 6.4 mi
- Skyride: 6.6 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex: 6.6 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 0.4 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 5.4 mi
- John Brown Memorial Statue: 6.1 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 6.3 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 6.8 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 4.8 mi
- Henry's Woods: 6.0 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 7.3 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 10.4 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 11.2 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 7.3 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 7.3 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 9.4 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 9.6 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 18.4 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 10.8 mi
- Peace Garden: 18.7 mi
- Goolds Garden: 19.0 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 20.0 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 7.3 mi
- Tahawus: 10.2 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 14.3 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 22.0 mi
- Footbridge Park: 23.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Three Peaks. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Peak | SE 133° | 1,555 m | 5.5 mi |
| Iroquois Peak | SE 141° | 1,472 m | 5.4 mi |
| Boundary Peak | SE 137° | 1,471 m | 5.4 mi |
| Mount Colden | SE 132° | 1,436 m | 7.2 mi |
| Wright Peak | SE 126° | 1,389 m | 5.4 mi |
| Panther Peak | SSW 205° | 1,358 m | 7.6 mi |
| Mount Marshall | SSE 150° | 1,333 m | 5.6 mi |
| Seward Mountain | WSW 248° | 1,319 m | 7.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:13 | 20:00 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:17 | 18:56 |
| 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 | 14 | 15 | 24 | 38 | 50 | 59 | 64 | 62 | 55 | 44 | 33 | 21 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RAY Brook, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 967458 — Three Peaks, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357592844
Day trips start here
- Elizabethtown · 23 mi
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