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Sentinel Rock State Park

Sentinel Rock State Park from directly overhead

Sentinel Rock State Park is a nature reserve in Vermont, at a modelled elevation of 640 m. Bald Mountain stands 1,010 m to the southeast, 2.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Hinton Hill, a peak 0.7 miles away. Chemin des Cantons passes 15 miles off.

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates44.79070, -72.02861

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks: 17
  • Memorial Park: 1.9 mi
  • Brighton State Park Day Use Area: 8.1 mi
  • Pomerleau Park: 13.3 mi
  • Gardner Memorial Park: 13.4 mi
  • Prouty Beach & Campground: 14.0 mi
Nature reserves: 13
Museums: 12
Beaches: 7
  • North Beach: 2.3 mi
  • South Beach: 5.1 mi
  • Southwest Cove Beach: 5.1 mi
  • Campers' Beach: 8.7 mi
  • Balm of Gilead Beach: 9.5 mi
Attractions: 6
  • Kingdom Trails Nordic Adventure Center: 15.2 mi
  • Cercle de Pierre de Stanstead: 15.4 mi
  • Circus Smirkus World Headquarters: 19.2 mi
  • Great Vermont Corn Maze: 20.4 mi
  • Walden Mountain Alpaca Farm: 22.0 mi
Covered bridges: 4
Historic sites: 4
Picnic sites: 2
  • Runaway Pond: 14.1 mi
  • Lake Memphremagog Buffers: 16.0 mi
Cliffs: 1
  • Bald Hill: 2.9 mi
Waterfalls: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.8 miles of Sentinel Rock State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bald MountainSE 130°1,010 m2.6 mi
Goodwin MountainSE 138°852 m1.6 mi
Bluff MountainENE 60°850 m9.3 mi
Mount PisgahS 181°849 m4.2 mi
Bluff Mountain (Low Summit)ENE 59°846 m10.1 mi
Haystack MountainSSE 157°845 m3.3 mi
Job MountainESE 122°845 m3.8 mi
Bull MountainESE 114°833 m10.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5218:2219:01
June solstice05:0319:5320:38
September equinox06:3618:0918:48
December solstice07:2315:2216:11

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F141525395261666457453422
Precip in2.82.32.93.44.14.84.94.54.14.53.43.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Island Pond, 7 mi away.

  • Wood Frog18 obs
  • fen grass of Parnassus16 obs
  • white meadowsweet10 obs
  • pink lady's slipper9 obs
  • Steeplebush8 obs
  • northern whitecedar6 obs
  • green-keeled cottongrass6 obs
  • Canadian bunchberry5 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/881765695

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