Wittenberg Mountain
Wittenberg Mountain rises to 1,153 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the west-southwest, 2.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Cornell Crack, a cliff 0.6 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off.
The story
Wittenberg Mountain, locally "the Wittenberg'', is a mountain in Shandaken, Ulster County, New York. It is part of the Burroughs Range of the Catskill Mountains. Wittenberg is flanked to the southwest by Cornell Mountain and to the northeast by Terrace Mountain. Wittenberg Mountain is within the watershed of Esopus Creek, which drains into the Hudson River and New York Bay. The northwest and northeast slopes of the mountain drain into Woodland Creek, thence into Esopus Creek. The southeast side of Wittenberg drains into Wittenberg Brook, thence into Maltby Hollow Brook, Bush Kill, and Esopus Creek at Ashokan Reservoir. Wittenberg Mountain is within the Slide Mountain Wilderness of New York's Catskill State Park. The Long Path, a 350-mile (560 km) long-distance hiking trail from New York City to Albany, is contiguous with the section of the Burroughs Range Trail crossing the summits of Slide, Cornell, and Wittenberg. Wittenberg Mountain is one of the 35 peaks in the Catskills greater than 3,500 feet in elevation and is a required ascent for membership in the Catskill Mountain 3500 Club.
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Wikidata Q8028568, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,152.75 m
How to reach it
- 14.9 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 18 mi
- Panther Rock · 19 mi
- Copes Lookout · 19 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cornell Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Dink: 1.1 mi
- Terrace Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Friday Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Cross Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 4.2 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 4.4 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 5.4 mi
- Parish Field: 5.6 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 6.4 mi
- Oak Ridge Unit: 3.4 mi
- Woodland Valley Unit: 3.4 mi
- Future DEC: 3.6 mi
- Mount Tremper Unit: 4.0 mi
- Mount Pleasant Unit: 4.3 mi
- Cornell Falls: 0.7 mi
- Otter Falls: 4.0 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 6.7 mi
- High Falls: 9.3 mi
- Metacahonts Falls: 9.4 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 2.0 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 3.8 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 4.2 mi
- Forstmann Castle: 7.9 mi
- Yale Quarry: 8.0 mi
- Cornell Crack: 0.6 mi
- Samuels Point: 2.2 mi
- Giant Ledge: 3.2 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 6.6 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 9.9 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 5.4 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 10.5 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 11.9 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 15.0 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 15.6 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 4.4 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 5.3 mi
- Winnisook: 8.3 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 14.5 mi
- Gnome Chomsky: 15.8 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 10.4 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 14.1 mi
- Scuba Diving Access Area: 20.1 mi
- Lake Minnewaska Beach: 20.2 mi
- Kingston Point Beach: 20.4 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 18.1 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 19.6 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 20.6 mi
- Rough Garden: 22.0 mi
- Formal Gardens: 22.0 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 4.2 mi
- Rail Explorers: 5.4 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 16.4 mi
- Overturned 1938 Truck: 19.7 mi
- Swimming Hole: 19.8 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 4.5 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 6.1 mi
- Bear Wallow: 6.4 mi
- Piped Spring: 9.9 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 12.4 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 12.8 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 15.0 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 21.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Wittenberg Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | WSW 253° | 1,266 m | 2.1 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain - South Peak | W 277° | 1,175 m | 9.2 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | SW 224° | 1,174 m | 0.7 mi |
| Table Mountain | SW 221° | 1,166 m | 4.5 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | SW 215° | 1,164 m | 4.6 mi |
| Panther Mountain | NW 324° | 1,135 m | 4.1 mi |
| Lone Mountain | SW 219° | 1,128 m | 3.5 mi |
| Big Indian Mountain | WNW 284° | 1,127 m | 7.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:44 | 16:30 |
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 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357597623
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