Hunter Mountain, New York

Elevation Info:	Elevation range: 4040 - 4060 ft     (20-foot closed contour) NAVD88 Elevation: 4039 ft / 1231 m     (Range 4039 - 4059 ft)
Subpeaks	Hunter Mountain-Southwest Peak (3740 ft/1140 m)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	42° 10' 40'' N, 74° 13' 49'' W 42.177724, -74.230172 (Dec Deg) 563578 E 4669796 N, Zone 18 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	New York
County/Second Level Region	Greene (Highest Point)
City/Town	Hunter
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Hunter Mountain":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Hunter at SummitPost.org      Hunter Mountain at ListsOfJohn.com      Weather for Hunter Mountain New York at Mountain-Forecast.com      CoHP.org Trip Report for Greene, NY by Daniel Case      CoHP.org Trip Report for Greene, NY by Ken Akerman      CoHP.org Trip Report for Greene, NY by Daniel Case      CoHP.org Trip Report for Greene, NY by Richard Garland      CoHP.org Trip Report for Greene, NY by Brennan Connelly Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Hunter Mountain:      Northeast USA 4000-foot Peaks (Rank #93)      Northeast "115" 4000-footers (Rank #96)      Northeast USA Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #43)      Eastern USA Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #62)      Catskill 3500-foot Peaks (Rank #2)      2000-foot Prominence CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #223)      CoHP High Five List (Rank #122)      100 Highest Eastern CoHPs (Rank #74)      Fire Tower Challenge (Adirondack/Catskill) (Rank #1)      Northeastern Wilderness High Points (Rank #11)      USA Lower 48 Range5 High Points (Rank #504)      Catskill Top 102 (Rank #2)      Northeastern USA CoHPs (Rank #22)      New York County High Points (Rank #4)      Mid-Atlantic CoHPs (Rank #4)      High Points of Counties in 13 Original States (Rank #56) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Peak Experiences, Hiking the Highest Summits of New York (Fallesen)
Ascent Info Total successful ascents logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 970      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 856) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      2011-06-18 by Mike Wright      2013-02-10 by John Harrington (GPS Track)      2013-05-05 by Stewart McGuire      2013-07-10 by Luc Tremblay      2014-06-28 by Michael Vaughan (GPS Track)      2015-07-17 by Dan Quinlan (GPS Track)      2015-09-26 by Jeff Hicks      2015-09-26 by Cynthia Chan      2015-11-01 by Crystal Davis      2015-12-05 by Michael Stonek (GPS Track)      2016-01-31 by Mary Ruth Merkel      2016-03-05 by Cynthia Chan      2016-05-09 by Jen Masa (GPS Track)      2016-08-30 by Todd Jennings      2016-10-19 by Spencer Corcoran      2017-04-15 by Sarah Bacon      2017-07-30 by Josh Schmid      2017-08-14 by Jake Campbell (GPS Track)      2018-06-16 by Jacob Kitson      2018-10-10 by Christopher Higgins (GPS Track)      2019-02-18 by Raven Matherne (GPS Track)      2019-05-25 by Lori S      2019-08-31 by Ethan Myers (GPS Track)      2019-12-27 by Aaron Gustafson (GPS Track)      2020-03-05 by Douglas Fortman (GPS Track)      2020-03-21 by Crystal Davis      2020-05-20 by Derek English
Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Hunter Mountain      Elevation Ladder from Hunter Mountain      Prominence Ladder from Hunter Mountain

Hunter Mountain - FireTower (2015-05-24). Photo by Brian Gordon. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 2140 ft/652 m   Optimistic Prominence: 2180 ft/664 m   Line Parent: Slide Mountain   Key Col: Highmount, NY    1900 ft/579 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 14.65 mi/23.57 km    Isolation Limit Point: 41.9992, -74.3842 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Slide Mountain  (SSW)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Appalachian Mountains Range3: Appalachian Plateaus Range4: Catskill Mountains Range5: Central Catskills (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	Schohaire (HP) Mohawk Hudson New York Harbor Atlantic Ocean
Ownership	Land: Catskill State Park
Topo Map	Hunter O42074b2 1:24,000
Ski Area	Hunter
Route #1	Maintained Hiking Trail Trailhead: Colonel's Chair Lift 3190 ft/972 m Vertical Gain: 850 ft/259 m Distance (one way): 2.7 mi/4.35 km
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
Dynamic Map  Hunter Mountain    Other Peaks Click Here for a Full Screen Map

Other Photos

Fire tower as seen along the Hunter Mountain Trail at Hunter-West Kill Wilderness; West Kill, Greene County (2016-01-30). Photo by Nick Hepler. Click here for larger-size photo.

Finally at the summit (2010-04-10). Photo by Erik Kellerman. Click here for larger-size photo.

should have packed the snowshoes (2010-04-10). Photo by Erik Kellerman. Click here for larger-size photo.

Hunter Mountain Fire Tower, Catskill FT #1/5 (2016-07-19). Photo by Jillian Smith. Click here for larger-size photo.

View from the summit. No views from the tower that day due to heavy overcast. (2016-08-21). Photo by Erica Hayes. Click here for larger-size photo.

/At Hunter Mountain fire tower. 1/27/18 (2018-01-27). Photo by Lori S. Click here for larger-size photo.

Hunter Tower (2018-08-15). Photo by Christina Bushunow. Click here for larger-size photo.

Photo from the cold and windy tower on Hunter Mountain. (2019-02-09). Photo by Chris Lecksell. Click here for larger-size photo.

The Blackhead Mountains from the fire tower on Hunter Mountain (2020-03-05). Photo by Douglas Fortman. Click here for larger-size photo.

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