Devil's Acre spring
Devil's Acre spring is a spring in New York, at a modelled elevation of 1,068 m. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the north, 0.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Southwest Hunter Mountain, a peak 0.7 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 23 miles off.
reliable seeping spring
How to reach it
- 22.8 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 24 mi
- White Dot · 24 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 28 mi
- Copes Lookout · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Southwest Hunter Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Hunter Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Colonels Chair: 2.4 mi
- East Rusk: 2.9 mi
- Silver Hollow Notch Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Diamond Notch Primitive Bicycle Corridor: 1.6 mi
- Stony Clove Unit: 1.6 mi
- Diamond Notch Unit: 2.2 mi
- Neal Road Unit: 2.7 mi
- Railroad Bend Unit: 2.9 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 5.3 mi
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 6.4 mi
- Parish Field: 6.9 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 7.1 mi
- C.D. Lane Park: 9.0 mi
- Diamond Notch Falls: 1.5 mi
- Delmura Falls: 7.8 mi
- Santa Cruz Falls: 7.8 mi
- Old Mill Falls: 7.8 mi
- Plattekill Falls: 7.8 mi
- New York State Forest Preserve Centennial: 1.5 mi
- Tory Fort: 7.3 mi
- Boarding House: 7.8 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 8.4 mi
- Layman's Monument: 8.5 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 3.3 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 7.1 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 7.4 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 10.3 mi
- Zadock Pratt Museum: 14.6 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 2.3 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 7.3 mi
- The Great Knot: 11.8 mi
- Winnisook: 11.8 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 11.9 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 1.5 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 7.8 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 7.9 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 8.8 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 9.1 mi
- The Walled Garden: 16.9 mi
- The Upper Garden: 16.9 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 18.9 mi
- Rough Garden: 19.1 mi
- Ellipse: 19.2 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 12.7 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 15.7 mi
- West Landing: 17.7 mi
- South Landing: 17.7 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 18.4 mi
- Rail Explorers: 7.1 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 8.5 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 12.5 mi
- Pratt Rock: 14.0 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 21.3 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 10.1 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 16.8 mi
- Bear Wallow: 16.8 mi
- Bear Wallow: 16.9 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 17.3 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 1.5 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 3.2 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 16.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.8 miles of Devil's Acre spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | N 3° | 1,228.34 m | 0.9 mi |
| Black Dome | NE 38° | 1,217.37 m | 9.1 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | NE 34° | 1,204.87 m | 8.8 mi |
| Blackhead | NE 42° | 1,200.91 m | 9.6 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | W 273° | 1,186 m | 3.0 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | ESE 123° | 1,168.91 m | 3.5 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | ESE 120° | 1,160 m | 4.8 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | WSW 251° | 1,140 m | 0.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:43 | 16:29 |
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, 7 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Nov–Jan, Mar–May — fullest in Apr, leanest in Jun.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 5.2 | 3.8 | 6.3 | 9.7 | 6.3 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 7.5 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Myrtle Brook AT State Hwy 214 AT Edgewood NY, 2 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/1938234844
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