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Bear Mountain New York Map

Explore Bear Mountain, New York, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Bear Mountain, New York

How to Use This Bear Mountain, New York Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bear Mountain, New York. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of New York or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Bear Mountain.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Bear Mountain
State	New York (NY)
County	Rockland County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	41.3176
Longitude	-73.989
Population	280
Density	18.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	10911
Area Code	914
County Seat	New City

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About Bear Mountain, New York

Bear Mountain is a locality in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Bear Mountain is located at 41.3176°N, 73.9890°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 10911.

Bear Mountain rises as a rugged monolith of granite and oak, defined by the sharp, downward pull of Popolopen Creek as it carves through the earth toward the lower basin. It lies 4.0 miles west-northwest of Peekskill, NY (from Peekskill, NY: bearing 298°T), and is situated 9.4 miles east of Kiryas Joel. Hessian Lake sits at the base of these slopes, its surface often mirroring the heavy, slate-colored sky that settles over the region during the transition between autumn and winter. The air here holds a distinct sharpness, carrying the scent of damp shale and decaying leaves from the nearby Black Rock Forest. Within the protected boundaries of Bear Mountain State Park, the terrain remains indifferent to the passing of seasons, maintaining a quiet, monumental weight that seems to compress the very light into long, thin shadows across the rocky outcrops.

History lingers in the stone foundations of Bear Mountain, where the echoes of strategic movement and civilian labor define the landscape’s character. The economy of the land has shifted from early military necessity to the steady, rhythmic stewardship of a public trust, drawing visitors who seek the solitude found along the Stillwell Lake Trail or the distant, rushing spray of Buttermilk Falls. Life here is measured by the slow accumulation of geological time rather than the frantic pace of the human world, even as the distant Appalachian Mountains provide a jagged, blue-tinted frame to the horizon. It is a place where the work of generations has been folded into the maintenance of the wild, ensuring that the park remains a deliberate, preserved space amidst the encroaching density of the modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Bear Mountain State Park (State Park) — locality lies within
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 0.4 mi, 145° SE
Hudson Highlands State Park Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 0.5 mi, 074° E
Fort Montgomery Marina (Park) — 0.6 mi, 019° N
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 0.7 mi, 060° NE · 110k acres
Ft. Montgomery State Historic Site (Park) — 0.7 mi, 011° N
Joseph Bartha (Monument) — 1.0 mi, 243° SW
Sceenic Overlook Pointe - Camp Smith (Viewpoint) — 1.0 mi, 113° SE
Port Jervis City Lands (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 314° NW
Iona Island Component Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 1.3 mi, 156° SE
Harriman State Park (State Park) — 1.3 mi, 269° W
County Of Putnam Land (Local Park) — 1.3 mi, 043° NE
MANITOGA / The Russel Wright Design Center (Museum) — 2.9 mi, 042° NE
Annsville Paddlesport Center (State Recreation Area) — 2.9 mi, 118° SE
West Redoubt (Historic Castle / Fort) — 3.5 mi, 117° SE
East Redoubt (Historic Castle / Fort) — 3.7 mi, 115° SE
Lincoln Depot Museum (Museum) — 3.7 mi, 124° SE
John Burroughs (Monument) — 3.7 mi, 019° N
The Peekskill Museum (Museum) — 4.0 mi, 119° SE
West Point Museum (Museum) — 4.1 mi, 020° N
Castle Rock Unique Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.1 mi, 034° NE
Black Rock Forest (Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 341° N
Garrison Art Center (Arts Centre) — 5.0 mi, 026° NE
L'Ecole Polytechnique Monument (Monument) — 5.3 mi, 018° N
Washington Monument (Public Artwork) — 5.4 mi, 017° N
Regal UA Cortlandt Town Center (Cinema) — 6.3 mi, 095° E
Boring Mill Backshot Wheel (Historic Ruins) — 7.2 mi, 018° N
Studio Tashtego (Gallery) — 7.2 mi, 014° N
Old Car (Historic Ruins) — 7.4 mi, 101° E
Hudson Highlands Nature Center - Outdoor Discovery Campus (Museum) — 7.6 mi, 342° N

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