Tory Hill
Tory Hill rises to 215 m in New York. Brace Mountain stands 706 m to the east, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Roeliff Jansenkill Multiple Use Area, a park 1.5 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 20 miles off.
The story
Mountain in New York, United States of America.
Wikidata Q34813742, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 215 m
How to reach it
- 19.8 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 21 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 27 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 27 mi
- Hayes Lookout · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Roeliff Jansenkill Multiple Use Area: 1.5 mi
- Wilcox Memorial Park: 4.6 mi
- Stissing Lake Park: 5.7 mi
- Red Hook Memorial Park: 5.8 mi
- Hettling Park at Clermont: 5.9 mi
- Turkey Hill: 1.8 mi
- Briggs Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Tiffany Hill: 2.3 mi
- Doty Hill: 2.8 mi
- Coles Hill: 2.8 mi
- FOSL: 5.4 mi
- Stissing Mountain: 5.7 mi
- New Forge State Forest: 8.3 mi
- Buttercup Farm Audubon Sanctuary: 8.5 mi
- Stonehouse Wood Sanctuary: 8.7 mi
- Cantine Dam Falls: 10.3 mi
- Glenerie Falls: 11.0 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 14.2 mi
- Bash Bish Falls: 15.4 mi
- Riga Falls: 15.8 mi
- War Memorial: 6.1 mi
- Moravian Christian Mission Monument: 7.6 mi
- Shell Midden: 8.6 mi
- Butler Rockshelter: 8.6 mi
- Patriot Burials: 9.9 mi
- The Story Studio: 5.8 mi
- Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum: 6.1 mi
- Center For Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art: 7.7 mi
- Kiersted House: 10.5 mi
- Trolley Museum of New York: 13.0 mi
- Parliament of Reality: 7.2 mi
- Stargon: 7.3 mi
- America: 7.5 mi
- Wishbone: 7.8 mi
- Diving Lady: 8.3 mi
- Old Dutch Village Garden Club: 5.8 mi
- The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 7.5 mi
- Bard Community Garden: 7.6 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 7.9 mi
- Ellipse: 8.0 mi
- West Beach: 5.5 mi
- East Beach: 5.9 mi
- South Landing: 8.6 mi
- West Landing: 8.6 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 9.3 mi
- Trap Cliff: 8.2 mi
- Indian Rock: 16.2 mi
- Ministers Face: 17.0 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 17.0 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 17.2 mi
- wings castle: 12.9 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 13.2 mi
- Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 15.7 mi
- Town Hill Farm: 17.9 mi
- Giant's Thumb: 19.1 mi
- Guilder Pond Picnic area: 17.9 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 24.6 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 9.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.3 miles of Tory Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brace Mountain | E 82° | 706 m | 14.0 mi |
| South Brace Mountain | E 84° | 702 m | 14.1 mi |
| Alander Mountain | ENE 70° | 680 m | 14.1 mi |
| Washburn Mountain | ENE 65° | 463 m | 13.9 mi |
| Silver Mountain | ESE 122° | 427 m | 11.5 mi |
| Stissing Mountain | SE 139° | 425 m | 5.6 mi |
| Fox Hill | E 81° | 410 m | 11.9 mi |
| Winchell Mountain | ESE 109° | 403 m | 12.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:30 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:52 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 15:42 | 16:27 |
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 | 24 | 26 | 34 | 46 | 58 | 66 | 71 | 70 | 62 | 50 | 39 | 30 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rhinebeck 4SE, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 967681 — Tory Hill, Dutchess County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357593212
Day trips start here
- Great Barrington · 24 mi
- Kinderhook · 28 mi
- Stockbridge · 29 mi
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