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Keene Valley New York Map

Explore Keene Valley, 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 Keene Valley, New York

How to Use This Keene Valley, New York Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Keene Valley, 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 Keene Valley.

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	Keene Valley
State	New York (NY)
County	Essex County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	44.189772
Longitude	-73.785972
Population	900
Density	22.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	12943
Area Code	845
County Seat	Elizabethtown

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About Keene Valley, New York

Keene Valley is a locality in Essex County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 900. The population density is 22.0 people per km². Keene Valley is located at 44.1898°N, 73.7860°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 12943.

Keene Valley draws its essential character from the persistent, silver-tongued presence of the East Branch Ausable River as it carves a path through the lowland earth. It lies 9.1 miles east-southeast of North Elba, NY (from North Elba, NY: bearing 114°T), and is situated 19.6 miles east-southeast of Saranac Lake. The atmosphere here holds a heavy, damp clarity, as if the air itself were filtered through the dense, dark timber that defines the surrounding landscape. To the west, the horizon catches the jagged, shadowed silhouettes of the Adirondack Mountains, their ridgelines forming a permanent boundary against the sky. The terrain is marked by the deep, glacial depression of Hull Basin, which anchors the valley floor in a quiet, geological stillness. In the late afternoon, the light turns a bruised, autumnal gold, catching the mist that rises from the riverbed and settles into the crevices of the terrain, leaving the land feeling ancient and untouched by the frantic pace of the outside world.

Economic life in Keene Valley has long been tethered to the rugged environment, moving from early resource-based labor to a contemporary reliance on the stewardship of the Town Of Keene Land. The residents maintain a sturdy, independent rhythm, often navigating the local topography by way of the White Trail or spending hours in the cooling, quiet solitude near Round Pond. Despite the inland geography, the local vernacular retains a faint, maritime nostalgia, with many locals looking toward the distant salt-tide influence of Indian Cove as a point of orientation. History here is recorded not in monuments, but in the slow, seasonal cycles of the inhabitants who manage the forest tracts and maintain the narrow, winding roads. It is a place where the economy of the present is built upon the preservation of the wild, ensuring that the character of the valley remains as resilient and unyielding as the stone beneath the soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

High Peaks Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 0.4 mi, 220° SW
Giant Mountain Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 0.6 mi, 164° S
Water District Lands (Local Resource Management Area) — 0.9 mi, 271° W
Hammond Pond Wild Forest (State Conservation Area) — 1.4 mi, 026° NE
Valley View Ledge (Viewpoint) — 1.5 mi, 228° SW
Johns Brook Primitive Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.8 mi, 253° W
High Peaks (State Resource Management Area) — 1.8 mi, 253° W
Town of Keene Land (Local Park) — 1.9 mi, 359° N
Airport Town Shed Land (Local Park) — 2.0 mi, 359° N
New York State Lands (State Recreation Area) — 2.4 mi, 001° N
Canyon Bridge Memorial (Monument) — 3.4 mi, 191° S
Mount Van Hoevenberg Winter Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 5.1 mi, 284° W
Lower Ausable Lake Dam (Monument) — 5.3 mi, 201° S
Lake Placid Bobsled Experience at Mt. Van Hoevenberg (Attraction) — 7.1 mi, 286° W
Cliffside Coaster (Attraction) — 7.1 mi, 286° W
Essex County Lands (Local Conservation Area) — 7.8 mi, 358° N
Mount Marcy First Ascent (Monument) — 8.7 mi, 232° SW
Adirondack history center museum (Museum) — 9.8 mi, 079° E
Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex (Attraction) — 9.9 mi, 298° NW
Skyride (Attraction) — 9.9 mi, 298° NW
Lake Placid Hall of Fame (Museum) — 11.8 mi, 304° NW
Bert Williams Farm (Historic Ruins) — 12.3 mi, 005° N
Big Wooden Bear (8') (Public Artwork) — 13.2 mi, 336° NW
Plane Crash Site (Historic Ruins) — 13.6 mi, 273° W
Adirondack Artists Guild Gallery (Gallery) — 19.5 mi, 299° NW
NorthWind Fine Arts Gallery (Gallery) — 19.5 mi, 299° NW
Gage's Redoubt (Historic Castle / Fort) — 20.9 mi, 123° SE
Crown Point Historic Site (Museum) — 20.9 mi, 122° SE
Historic Redoubt (Historic Castle / Fort) — 21.2 mi, 123° SE
Green Mountain National Forest (National Forest) — 35.8 mi, 105° E · 412k acres

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