Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney is a peak in Town of North Elba, Essex, New York and has an elevation of 2,638 feet. Mount Whitney is situated nearby to the hamlet Whiteface, as well as near Undercliff.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,638 feet
- Description: mountain in United States of America
- Also known as: “Mt. Whitney”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mirror Lake and Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum.
Mirror Lake
Lake
The oligotrophic, circumneutral body of water called Mirror Lake is in the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York in the United States. The lake is approximately 124 acres, with a watershed area of 741 acres.
Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum
Museum
Photo: Vinckie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Lake Placid Olympic Museum commemorates the 1932 Winter Olympics and 1980 Winter Olympics, which were based in the Olympic village of Lake Placid. It is one of few Olympic museums in the United States and is a part of the work of New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority in the Lake Placid Olympic Region.
Herb Brooks Arena
Ice rink
Herb Brooks Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Lake Placid, New York. This surface, along with the USA Rink, was built for the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lake Placid and Ray Brook.
Lake Placid
Photo: Atilin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Placid is a village of 2,400 people in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, near the center of the town of North Elba and named after an adjacent lake.
Ray Brook
Hamlet
Ray Brook is a hamlet in the U.S. state of New York, located on NY 86 between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid in the Town of North Elba in Essex County. It is the site of the Adirondack Park Agency, the District 5 office of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook and the Adirondack Correctional Facility. Ray Brook is situated 6 miles west of Mount Whitney.
Mount Whitney
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Town of North Elba, Essex, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.30616° or 44° 18′ 22″ northLongitude
-73.95932° or 73° 57′ 34″ westElevation
2,638 feet (804 metres)Open location code
87P8824R+F7OpenStreetMap ID
node 357597232OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Dutch—“Mount Whitney” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Whitney”
- Dutch: “Mount Whitney”
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Localities in the Area
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