Windham High Peak
Windham High Peak rises to 1,077 m in New York. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the south-southwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Kate Hill, a peak 1.3 miles away.
The story
Windham High Peak is a mountain located in Greene County, New York. The mountain is part of the Catskill Mountains. Windham High Peak stands within the watershed of the Hudson River, which drains into New York Bay. The south and northwest sides of Windham drain into Batavia Kill, and thence into Schoharie Creek, the Mohawk River, and the Hudson River. The northeast side of Windham drains into Bowery Creek, thence into Catskill Creek, and the Hudson River more directly. And the southeast side drains via Plattekill Creek into Esopus Creek, a still lower Hudson tributary. The summit trijunction of the divides between these watersheds demarcated, until at least 1629, the traditional boundary tripoint of Mohawk, Mohican, and Delaware territory, respectively. Windham High Peak is within New York's Catskill Park. The Long Path, a 350-mile (560 km) long-distance hiking trail from New York City to Albany, is contiguous with the Escarpment Trail.
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Wikidata Q8024191, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1077 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Kate Hill: 1.3 mi
- Burnt Knob: 1.5 mi
- Mount Zoar: 2.2 mi
- Acra Point: 2.6 mi
- Camel's Hump: 3.0 mi
- C.D. Lane Park: 2.3 mi
- Irish Cultural Center: 4.7 mi
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 6.5 mi
- Angelo Canna Town Park: 7.3 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 8.5 mi
- Jennie Notch Unit: 2.7 mi
- Maplecrest Road Unit: 3.7 mi
- Lake Heloise Unit: 3.9 mi
- Brooksburg Unit: 3.9 mi
- Katydid Creek Unit: 4.3 mi
- East Kill Falls: 6.2 mi
- Glen Falls: 7.3 mi
- Venus Bath: 7.6 mi
- Gaia Cascade: 7.6 mi
- Winter Clove falls: 7.8 mi
- Donald Sutton Memorial Plaque: 4.2 mi
- Susquehanna Turnpike: 6.1 mi
- Town of Cairo: 8.0 mi
- Early Sawmill: 8.1 mi
- Eleazer Knowles: 8.1 mi
- Durham Center Museum: 5.2 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 8.0 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 8.7 mi
- Rensselaerville Historical Society: 13.9 mi
- Pratt Museum: 14.8 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 11.1 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 11.4 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 13.0 mi
- Pratt Rocks: 13.7 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 13.8 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 9.2 mi
- The Great Knot: 17.8 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 18.4 mi
- Opus 40: 19.1 mi
- The Query Family: 19.1 mi
- Veterans Garden: 14.4 mi
- The Upper Garden: 19.5 mi
- The Walled Garden: 19.5 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 23.4 mi
- The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 23.6 mi
- Lake Myosotis Swimming Area: 14.2 mi
- Oakdale Beach: 19.1 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 19.5 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 21.3 mi
- West Landing: 21.7 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 8.7 mi
- Pratt Rock: 14.3 mi
- Rail Explorers: 18.3 mi
- Old Blenheim Covered Bridge: 18.7 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 19.8 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 1.6 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 11.2 mi
- Bathtub Spring: 19.5 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 8.8 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 11.1 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 20.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.5 miles of Windham High Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | SSW 205° | 1,228.34 m | 10.5 mi |
| Black Dome | SSE 161° | 1,217.37 m | 3.3 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | S 173° | 1,204.87 m | 3.1 mi |
| Blackhead | SSE 149° | 1,200.91 m | 3.8 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | SW 216° | 1,186 m | 12.6 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | S 187° | 1,168.91 m | 12.3 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | S 182° | 1,160 m | 12.7 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | SSW 206° | 1,140 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:42 | 16:28 |
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 | 21 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 61 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 27 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 3.1 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 6.0 | 4.8 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Jewett, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 971464 — Windham High Peak, Greene County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357597553
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- Kinderhook · 25 mi
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