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Gorham Common

Gorham Common from directly overhead

Gorham Common is a park in New Hampshire, at a recorded elevation of 242 m. Mount Adams stands 1,748 m to the southwest, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Gorham Historical Society & Railroad Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. Presidential Range Tour runs past it.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
242 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates44.38790, -71.17435

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Nature reserves
Parks: 51
  • Moose Brook Park: 1.4 mi
  • Moose Brook State Park: 2.5 mi
  • William H. Peek Memorial Park: 4.5 mi
  • Glenside Park: 4.8 mi
  • Chester Hayes Memorial Park: 5.1 mi
Waterfalls: 37
  • Triple Falls: 4.1 mi
  • Coosauk Fall: 5.1 mi
  • Hitchcock Fall: 5.2 mi
  • Gordon Fall: 5.7 mi
  • Salroc Fall: 5.9 mi
Attractions: 31
  • ZipRider Wildcat Mountain: 9.1 mi
  • Mount Washington Observatory: 10.3 mi
  • Ho Ho Ho H20: 15.9 mi
  • Rudys Rapid Transit: 16.0 mi
  • Hot Shots Fire Brigade: 16.0 mi
Picnic sites: 17
  • P6: 2.7 mi
  • P5: 2.7 mi
  • P10: 2.7 mi
  • P4: 2.8 mi
  • P9: 2.8 mi
Cliffs: 16
Historic sites: 13
Museums: 12
Springs: 5
  • Peabody Spring: 7.9 mi
  • Spaulding Spring: 8.6 mi
  • Gulfside Spring: 8.7 mi
  • Deer Hill Spring: 14.5 mi
  • Mountain fountain: 17.6 mi
Gardens: 2
  • Laura Lee Viger Community Gardens: 5.4 mi
  • Lancaster Community Garden: 20.8 mi
Covered bridges: 2
Artworks: 2
Beaches: 2
  • Pleasant Point Town Beach: 19.6 mi
  • Greenwood Town Beach: 24.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.0 miles of Gorham Common. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount AdamsSW 231°1,748 m7.4 mi
Mount Sam AdamsSW 234°1,682 m7.7 mi
Mount MadisonSW 231°1,636 m6.5 mi
Mount Quincy AdamsSW 232°1,633 m7.1 mi
Mount Abigail AdamsSW 235°1,626 m7.6 mi
Adams FiveSW 233°1,590 m8.2 mi
Carter DomeS 182°1,471 m8.3 mi
Mount HightS 178°1,415 m7.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4918:1918:57
June solstice05:0119:4920:33
September equinox06:3218:0618:44
December solstice07:1815:2116:09

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F171928415462676557463524
Precip in3.12.52.93.53.64.24.24.03.54.93.53.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gorham AP, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • painted trillium14 obs
  • tansy14 obs
  • Canada mayflower14 obs
  • Bohemian Waxwing10 obs
  • eastern white pine9 obs
  • Pine Grosbeak8 obs
  • red trillium8 obs
  • hobblebush8 obs

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

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/403856626

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