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Tonshi Mountain

Tonshi Mountain, seen from above at true elevation

Tonshi Mountain rises to 607 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the west, 9.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Tonshi Mountain, a peak 0.4 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 11 miles off.

The story

Tonshi Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York southeast of Phoenicia. Acorn Hill is located northeast, Ohayo Mountain is located east-northeast, and Little Tonshi Mountain is located west-southwest of Tonshi Mountain.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wikidata Q34813444, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Elevation
607 m

How to reach it

Coordinates42.00057, -74.19279

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Grant Avery Park: 2.7 mi
  • Bearsville Park: 3.3 mi
  • Rick Volz Field: 3.4 mi
  • Brown's Station: 3.7 mi
  • The Comeau Property: 4.2 mi
Waterfalls
Cliffs: 41
  • Snake Rocks Cliff: 2.6 mi
  • Samuels Point: 5.9 mi
  • Ministers Face: 8.0 mi
  • Cornell Crack: 8.4 mi
  • The "Great" Cliffs: 10.4 mi
Artworks: 24
Beaches: 18
  • Tongore Park Beach: 9.1 mi
  • Kingston Point Beach: 12.7 mi
  • Ulster Landing Beach: 12.8 mi
  • Saugerties Beach: 13.3 mi
  • West Landing: 13.9 mi
Gardens: 17
  • Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 10.5 mi
  • Rondout Community Garden: 12.0 mi
  • Formal Gardens: 14.1 mi
  • Rough Garden: 14.1 mi
  • Ellipse: 14.1 mi
Attractions: 12
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 5.9 mi
  • Rail Explorers: 8.1 mi
  • Hudson River Cruises: 12.2 mi
  • Pompey’s Cave: 13.1 mi
  • Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 15.3 mi
Springs: 7
  • Bear Wallow: 7.1 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 8.2 mi
  • Table Mountain Spring: 11.4 mi
  • Devil's Acre spring: 11.6 mi
  • Piped Spring: 16.6 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Lighthouses: 1

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.9 miles of Tonshi Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Slide MountainW1,266 m9.9 mi
Cornell MountainW1,174 m8.4 mi
Plateau MountainN1,169 m9.5 mi
Sugarloaf MountainNNE1,160 m9.3 mi
Wittenberg MountainW1,153 m8.0 mi
Lone MountainWSW1,128 m10.4 mi
Friday MountainW1,125 m8.7 mi
DinkW1,115 m8.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3219:09
June solstice05:2219:5420:37
September equinox06:4518:1918:56
December solstice07:2215:4416:29

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222431435463686660483828
Precip in4.94.05.75.24.86.05.56.36.37.04.97.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Platte Clove, 11 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 967662 — Tonshi Mountain, Ulster County, New York.

OpenStreetMap element node/357593160

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