{{Short description|Mountain in New York, United States}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Mount Taurus | other_name = Bull Hill | image = Bull Hill.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = Bull Hill Mountain | image_caption = Bull Hill from Storm King Mountain | elevation = | elevation_m = | elevation_ft = 1420 | elevation_ref = <ref name="Adams1981">{{cite book|author=Arthur G. Adams|title=The Hudson, a guidebook to the river|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4y_3pra6wk4C&pg=PA193|access-date=10 October 2011|date=May 1981|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-87395-406-8|page=193}}</ref> | prominence = | prominence_m = | prominence_ft = 680 | prominence_ref = <ref name=peakbagger>{{cite web | title = Bull Hill - Peakbagger.com | url = http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=24336 | access-date = 2011-10-10 }}</ref> | listing = New York mountains | range = Hudson Highlands | parent_peak = | location = North Highlands, New York | map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | map_relief = | map_size = | label = | label_position = | coordinates = {{Coord|41|26|18|N|73|57|20|W|format=dms|display=inline,title|type:mountain_region:US-NY}} | coordinates_ref = <ref name=GNIS>{{cite web |url = {{GNIS 3|969924}} |title = Bull Hill |work = Geographic Names Information System |publisher = United States Geological Survey |access-date = 2013-01-10}}</ref> | topo = West Point | type = Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks<ref>{{cite web | title = Scenic Areas of Statewide Significance | url = https://nyswaterfronts.com/SASS/SASS1/Hudson_Highlands.htm | access-date = 2011-10-10 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110930074200/http://www.nyswaterfronts.com/SASS/SASS1/Hudson_Highlands.htm | archive-date = 2011-09-30 }} </ref> | volcanic_arc/belt = | age = | last_eruption = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = Hike }} '''Bull Hill''', also known as '''Mount Taurus''', is a mountain north of the village of Cold Spring on the Hudson River in Putnam County in the State of New York. It is part of the river-straddling range known as the Hudson Highlands. The original name came after a bull that used to terrorize the mountain was chased by indignant inhabitants.<ref name="Cook1882">{{cite book|author=Joel Cook|title=Brief summer rambles near Philadelphia: Described in a series of letters written for the Public ledger during the summer of 1881|url=https://archive.org/details/briefsummerramb00cookgoog|access-date=10 October 2011|year=1882|publisher=J.B. Lippincott & co.|page=[https://archive.org/details/briefsummerramb00cookgoog/page/n126 121]}}</ref> A hunting party drove the bull over the hill. In an attempt to flee the mountaineers, the bull plunged out into space and fell down.<ref>{{cite book|last=Blake|first=William J.|title=The History of Putnam County, N.Y.: With an Enumeration of Its Towns, Villages, Rivers, Creeks, Lakes, Ponds, Mountains, Hills, and Geological Features|url=https://archive.org/details/historyputnamco00blakgoog|year=1849|publisher=Baker & Scribner|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyputnamco00blakgoog/page/n162 164]}}</ref> Its broken and shapeless mass on the rocks was memorialized in the name of the mountain the bull used to haunt.<ref name="Bacon1902">{{cite book|author=Edgar Mayhew Bacon|title=The Hudson River from ocean to source: historical--legendary--picturesque|url=https://archive.org/details/hudsonriverfrom01bacogoog|access-date=10 October 2011|year=1902|publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons|page=[https://archive.org/details/hudsonriverfrom01bacogoog/page/n377 357]}}</ref>

While not as well known as neighboring Breakneck Ridge or Storm King Mountain across the river, it too is part of Hudson Highlands State Park and has an extensive trail system and offers hikers sweeping views of the river and neighboring peaks from rock outcrops<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nynjtc.org/hike/east-hudson-highlands |title=Bull Hill (Mt. Taurus) via Washburn/Notch/Brook/Cornish Trail Loop &#124; New York-New Jersey Trail Conference |publisher=Nynjtc.org |date=2005-05-20 |access-date=2011-10-10}}</ref> near its wooded 1,420-foot (433 m) summit, higher than both neighbors.

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==External links== * [http://www.nynjtc.org/hike/east-hudson-highlands Bull Hill (Mt. Taurus) via Washburn/Notch/Brook/Cornish Trail Loop]

{{Mountains of New York}}

Category:Hudson Highlands Category:Mountains of Putnam County, New York Category:Mountains of New York (state)