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West Dollar Island

West Dollar Island from directly overhead

West Dollar Island is a picnic site in New York, at a recorded elevation of 99 m. Black Mountain stands 805 m to the east-northeast, 2.6 miles off. The nearest named place is West Dollar Is Day Use Area, a picnic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Lakes to Locks Passage passes 7.0 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
99 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates43.59933, -73.58139

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Hazel Island: 1.1 mi
  • Sarah Island: 1.1 mi
  • Pleasure Island: 2.0 mi
  • Log Bay Island: 3.5 mi
  • Huckleberry Island: 3.6 mi
Historic sites: 37
  • Bolton Veterans' Memorial: 4.7 mi
  • Bolton Time Capsule: 4.7 mi
  • Lafayette's Tour: 9.5 mi
  • Old Champlain Canal Lock 19: 12.6 mi
  • The Stand Against Burgoyne: 13.3 mi
Nature reserves: 34
Cliffs: 27
  • Ark Wall: 2.7 mi
  • Deer Leap: 4.6 mi
  • Eagle Cliff: 6.4 mi
  • Uncas Cliff: 6.7 mi
  • Stewarts Ledge: 6.8 mi
Attractions: 21
  • Leonelli's Playland Arcade: 13.8 mi
  • Lake George Steamboat Company: 13.9 mi
  • Doctor Morbid's Haunted House: 13.9 mi
  • Revolution Rail Co. - Thurman Station: 14.6 mi
  • Wildwest Ranch & Western Town: 15.5 mi
Museums: 19
  • Bolton Historical Museum: 4.8 mi
  • Skenesborough Museum: 9.5 mi
  • Town of Horicon Museum: 9.9 mi
  • Lake George Historical Association: 13.6 mi
  • House of Frankenstein Wax Museum: 13.8 mi
Picnic sites: 11
  • West Dollar Is Day Use Area: 0.0 mi
  • Little As You Were Island: 1.5 mi
  • Commission Point Picnic Area: 1.8 mi
  • Picnic Island: 2.3 mi
  • Fishbrook Pond Picnic Site: 2.7 mi
Beaches: 11
  • Hague Town Beach: 10.8 mi
  • Morey Stein Beach: 12.7 mi
  • Lake Hadlock Beach: 12.8 mi
  • Black Point Public Beach: 15.8 mi
  • Park beach: 18.6 mi
Waterfalls: 8
Gardens: 6
  • Community Garden: 5.9 mi
  • Arboretum: 17.3 mi
  • Schroon Community Garden: 18.7 mi
  • Colonial Revival King's Garden: 19.4 mi
  • Colonial Revival King's Garden: 19.5 mi
Artworks: 2
  • Chiseled Slate monoliths: 18.3 mi
  • Mandala II: 20.1 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Vermont Welcome Center: 14.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.2 miles of West Dollar Island. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Black MountainENE 79°805 m2.6 mi
Erebus MountainSE 137°765 m2.2 mi
Sleeping BeautySSE 151°715 m3.3 mi
Buck MountainS 188°711 m5.5 mi
Catamount MountainN 10°702 m6.2 mi
Fivemile MountainN 4°688 m2.8 mi
Huckleberry MountainN 7°680 m3.1 mi
Pilot KnobS 189°658 m7.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:2919:07
June solstice05:1419:5620:40
September equinox06:4218:1618:54
December solstice07:2515:3416:21

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F212333475968727163513928
Precip in3.02.63.03.33.34.44.44.53.64.13.03.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Whitehall, 10 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/38432688

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