Wallface Mountain
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Wallface Mountain rises to 1,131 m in New York. Mount Marcy stands 1,629 m to the east-southeast, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Wallface, a cliff less than a tenth of a mile away. High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73) passes 8.4 miles off. 230 named places lie within 25 miles, 49 of them named summits.
The story
Wallface Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York, United States. The mountain is named after the cliff on its southeastern side. Wallface is flanked to the west by MacNaughton Mountain, and faces Mount Marshall to the southeast across Indian Pass. The southeast and west sides of Wallface Mountain drain into the southern Indian Pass Brook, thence into Henderson Lake, the source of the Hudson River, which drains into New York Bay. The northern slopes of Wallface Mountain drain into the northern Indian Pass Brook, thence into the West Branch of the Ausable River, into Lake Champlain, thence into Canada's Richelieu River, the Saint Lawrence River, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The talus deposits under Wallface contain substantial talus caves, including the Touchy Sword of Damocles cave, which at 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) of passage is potentially the longest surveyed talus cave in the world. Wallface Mountain is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of New York's Adirondack Park.
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Wikidata Q7963071, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,131 m
How to reach it
- 8.4 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 10.1 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 12.7 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 17.0 mi off the Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
230 named places within 25 miles
- Wallface: 0.0 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 2.9 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 9.4 mi
- The Courthouse: 9.9 mi
- Weeping Winds: 10.5 mi
- MacNaughton Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Mount Marshall: 1.5 mi
- Shepherd's Tooth: 1.8 mi
- Lost Pond Peak: 1.8 mi
- Iroquois Peak: 1.9 mi
- Rocky Falls: 3.0 mi
- MacIntyre Falls: 3.2 mi
- Hanging Spear Falls: 3.4 mi
- Wanika Falls: 4.2 mi
- Indian Falls: 5.3 mi
- Mid's Park: 10.8 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 10.8 mi
- Brewster Park: 10.9 mi
- Baldwin Park: 13.0 mi
- Prescott Park: 13.5 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 1.8 mi
- Cliffside Coaster: 7.9 mi
- Lake Placid Bobsled Experience at Mt. Van Hoevenberg: 7.9 mi
- Mountain Pass Lodge: 7.9 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 8.5 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 3.0 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 4.2 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 4.3 mi
- Mount Marcy First Ascent: 5.9 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 3.4 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 7.6 mi
- Henry's Woods: 9.0 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 10.3 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 13.4 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 10.4 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 10.4 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 13.8 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 14.0 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 20.7 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 15.2 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 22.4 mi
- Peace Garden: 23.1 mi
- Goolds Garden: 23.3 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 25.0 mi
- Tahawus: 6.1 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 10.5 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 17.1 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 18.6 mi
- Footbridge Park: 22.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Wallface Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Marcy | ESE 107° | 1,629 m | 5.9 mi |
| Algonquin Peak | E 81° | 1,555 m | 2.5 mi |
| Schofield Cobble | ESE 109° | 1,515 m | 5.8 mi |
| Mount Haystack | ESE 108° | 1,498 m | 7.1 mi |
| Mount Skylight | ESE 117° | 1,495 m | 5.9 mi |
| Iroquois Peak | E 93° | 1,472 m | 1.9 mi |
| Boundary Peak | E 87° | 1,471 m | 2.1 mi |
| Gray Peak | ESE 110° | 1,463 m | 5.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:59 | 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, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357594748
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- Elizabethtown · 22 mi
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