Mount Sherrill
Everything about Sherrill is a little bit mysterious…
Peak Details
Height: 3,558ft (1,084m)
Range: Northeastern Catskills
Level: Difficult
Scenic: No/Low
Trail Type: Bushwhack
Canister: Yes
Mount Sherrill Hiking Trails & Hikes
North Dome, Mount Sherrill & Hagadone Hollow
The bushwhack over North Dome and Mount Sherrill is never easy. I found a way to make it even more difficult.
Secret Hike: Bushwhack Easter Egg
A bushwhack side-quest leads to an incongruous object…
Thru-Hike North Dome & Mount Sherrill
This intense bushwhack route over two of the most difficult Catskills peaks is challenging and rewarding.
Loop Hike North Dome & Mount Sherrill
This hike begins with an easy section of marked trail on the Devil’s Path but then switches to one of the most challenging Catskills bushwhacks. The ledges of North Dome will absolutely test your nerve.
Mount Sherrill Topography
Summit Forecast: Mount Sherrill
The page URL below shows the weather at Mount Sherrill’s summit for the next six days.
If a foreacast for a peak is not directly available, this page may display a link to a nearby location.
https://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Mount-Sherrill/forecasts/1082
Mount Sherrill Information
Mount Sherrill is named for Eliakim Sherrill, ”a tanner in the Shandaken area during the mid-nineteenth century” — a ludicrously bland description, considering the man’s personal history.
Sherrill did indeed own a tannery, in Shandaken. But he also held several political offices and was a major in the State Militia.
He was a Congressman and a Senator in the 1840’s and 1850’s.
During the Civil War, he organized the 126th New York Infantry and was its first colonel. In fighting during the Battle of Harpers Ferry, he was severely wounded with a gunshot through his lower jaw. He was captured. He was paroled. The wound didn’t heal and he went back to war to fight the Confederacy.
At the Battle of Gettysburg, on his first full day commanding a brigade, he was hit by a musket shot to the bowels, and later died.
Nearly 10,000 people attended his funeral.
Not bad for “a tanner”.
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