Winch Mountain
Winch Mountain rises to 816 m in New York. Whiteface Mountain stands 1,466 m to the southwest, 4.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Morgan Mountain, a peak 0.7 miles away. Olympic Trail passes 2.0 miles off.
The story
mountain in the United States of America
Wikidata Q34821376, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 816 m
How to reach it
- 2.0 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 10.2 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 17.9 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
- 18.9 mi off the Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Morgan Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Marble Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Esther Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Lookout Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Quaker Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Great Wall: 5.0 mi
- Moss Cliff: 6.2 mi
- Center of Progress Cliff: 7.3 mi
- summit fliff: 7.5 mi
- Tsunami Wall: 7.5 mi
- Lake Everest - Town Beach: 2.2 mi
- Town of Wilmington Beach: 2.2 mi
- Wilmington Heritage Park: 2.3 mi
- Wilmington Bike Park: 2.4 mi
- The Covered Bridge: 6.7 mi
- Flume Falls: 3.1 mi
- The Flume Fall: 3.1 mi
- Upper Stag Brook Falls: 3.8 mi
- Lower Stag Brook Falls: 3.9 mi
- High Falls (Climax): 4.4 mi
- New Vida Preserve: 4.5 mi
- New Vida Preserve: 4.9 mi
- Four Peaks Tract: 5.1 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 7.5 mi
- Henry's Woods: 12.3 mi
- Randy Preston Memorial: 4.1 mi
- Bert Williams Farm: 5.1 mi
- J. & J. Rogers Company Pulp Mill: 8.3 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Memorial: 9.5 mi
- World War Memorial: 10.9 mi
- Potholes: 4.4 mi
- Indian Head Rock: 4.4 mi
- Whirlpool Cove: 4.5 mi
- Master Pothole: 4.5 mi
- Porridge Potholes: 4.5 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 11.0 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 11.0 mi
- Six Nations Indian Museum: 13.9 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 14.6 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 15.0 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 15.1 mi
- Goolds Garden: 19.5 mi
- Peace Garden: 19.9 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 10.9 mi
- Port Kent Public Beach Park: 23.4 mi
- Footbridge Park: 18.2 mi
- AuSable Chasm Picnic Area: 20.9 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 4.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.6 miles of Winch Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteface Mountain | SW 220° | 1,466 m | 4.1 mi |
| Esther Mountain | SW 230° | 1,293 m | 2.6 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | SW 219° | 1,242 m | 2.9 mi |
| Kilburn Mountain | SSW 192° | 1,182 m | 7.6 mi |
| Sentinel Mountain | S 181° | 1,174 m | 7.2 mi |
| Little Whiteface Mountain | SSW 209° | 1,111 m | 4.3 mi |
| Stewart Mountain | S 183° | 1,104 m | 5.9 mi |
| Morgan Mountain | NW 319° | 1,050 m | 0.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:29 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:59 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:31 | 16:19 |
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 | 15 | 18 | 26 | 39 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 21 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lake Placid 2 S, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 971440 — Winch Mountain, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357597526
Day trips start here
- Elizabethtown · 20 mi
- Essex · 26 mi
- Westport · 26 mi
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