Bolton Landing, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bolton Landing, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Bolton Landing lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bolton Landing — the short answer
Bolton Landing, New York: USDA zone 5a, about 174 days between hard freezes, across 986 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~174
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 986 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 5a is Bolton Landing's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bolton Landing's 174-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bolton Landing
Each reading below is measured for Bolton Landing itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBolton Landing runs about 174 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBolton Landing sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Bolton Landing is in
Bolton Landing sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Bolton Landing's own centroid rather than borrowed from Warren County.
What Grows in Bolton Landing
Every plant below cleared Bolton Landing's own zone 5a and its 174-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bolton Landing?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Bolton Landing
Spotted lanternfly documented 16 miles from Bolton Landing, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bolton Landing
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bolton Landing. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DARRIN FRESH WATER INSTITUTEUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- STEWART'S SHOP #255Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- BOLTON CENTRAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- NYS/DEC GREEN ISLAND MAINT. CTR.Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- NOROWAL MARINA, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- BOLTON CENTRAL SCHOOLBrownfields · 2000 ft
- THE WATERS EDGE MARINA, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- F.R. SMITH & SONS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- THE SAGAMOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- SAGAMORE HOTELBrownfields · 2500 ft
- WILSONS LAUNDRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- BOLTON LANDING MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bolton Landing's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Bolton Landing.
Total Sites
145
within ~10 miles of Bolton Landing
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
32 brownfield sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bolton Landing
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bolton Landing
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
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Your land is one point inside Bolton Landing
Everything above resolves to Bolton Landing as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 986 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Bolton Landing Average
Bolton Landing Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Bolton Landing
- ●One soil character for all of Bolton Landing
- ●Frost dates read at Bolton Landing's scale: Apr 26 to Oct 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bolton Landing's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Bolton Landing — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Bolton Landing
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Bolton Landing’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Bolton Landing
When does frost risk typically end in Bolton Landing?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bolton Landing typically lands around Apr 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 17.
When is the first frost in Bolton Landing?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bolton Landing typically arrives around Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 3, so the watching starts about Sep 17 — about 174 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bolton Landing?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bolton Landing sees about 174 frost-free days — roughly Apr 26 through Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 17 to Oct 3, about 139 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bolton Landing?
The federal record around Bolton Landing shows 145 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (88), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Bolton Landing?
From about Sep 17 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bolton Landing's scale — its 5a band and its 174-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bolton Landing's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Bolton Landing’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bolton Landing's own scale — its own ~174-day season between 28°F freezes, the 986 acres it covers and 145 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bolton Landing's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bolton Landing's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 26 and Oct 17 and the ~174-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 145 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bolton Landing, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bolton Landing's boundary and the 986 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~174-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bolton Landing's own centroid, the Northeastern HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Bolton Landinglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bolton Landing's 986 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Warren County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Warren County
- The growing challenges every New York grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New York
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Warren County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bolton Landing's 986 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bolton Landing you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 986 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Bolton Landing-wide figureread your own land →
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