Skip to content

Ash Mountain

Ash Mountain, seen from above at true elevation

Ash Mountain rises to 84 m in Maine. Cadillac Mountain stands 466 m to the west-southwest, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Winter Harbor Historical Society, a museum 1.2 miles away. SCHOODIC NATIONAL SCENIC BYWAY passes 0.3 miles off.

The story

Mountain in the United States of America.

Wikidata Q33136272, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Elevation
84 m

How to reach it

Coordinates44.41036, -68.09751

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Gouldsboro Town Park: 3.5 mi
  • Jones Pond Recreation Area: 3.8 mi
  • Grant Park: 5.3 mi
  • Agamont Park: 5.4 mi
  • Harborview Park: 5.5 mi
Beaches: 29
  • Sand Beach: 7.0 mi
  • Rogers Point Beach: 7.4 mi
  • Boulder Beach: 8.1 mi
  • Flanders Pond Beach: 8.9 mi
  • Little Hunters Beach: 9.6 mi
Cliffs: 19
Museums: 15
  • Winter Harbor Historical Society: 1.2 mi
  • Historical Museum: 1.3 mi
  • Abbe Museum: 5.6 mi
  • George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History: 6.3 mi
  • Hancock Historical Society: 11.4 mi
Historic sites: 10
  • Old Farm Estate: 5.3 mi
  • The Doctor John B. Ells Pier: 5.4 mi
  • Eden's Civil War Monument: 5.6 mi
  • Morris K And Maria De Witt Jesup: 6.5 mi
  • Kurt Diederich: 6.5 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Springs: 8
  • Big Chief Spring: 2.8 mi
  • Red Rock Spring: 6.4 mi
  • Sieur de Monts Spring: 6.4 mi
  • Fern Spring: 9.7 mi
  • Maple Spring: 10.0 mi
Attractions: 7
  • Bar Harbor Whale Watch: 5.5 mi
  • Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co.: 5.5 mi
  • Schoodic Point: 5.7 mi
  • Thunder Hole: 7.7 mi
  • Otter Cliffs Rock Climbing: 8.2 mi
Gardens: 6
  • Turrets Seaside Garden: 6.1 mi
  • Beatrix Farrand Gardens: 6.2 mi
  • Newlin Garden: 6.2 mi
  • COA Community Garden: 6.3 mi
  • Wild Gardens of Acadia: 6.4 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Duck Brook Waterfall: 7.0 mi
  • Hadlock Falls: 10.6 mi
  • Man O War Waterfall: 12.5 mi
  • Long Falls: 17.9 mi
  • Ellsworth Falls: 20.2 mi
Artworks: 2
  • Baxter The Lobster: 5.5 mi
  • Water Street Mural: 18.5 mi
Natural arches: 2
  • Cathedral Rock: 8.5 mi
  • Double Arch: 13.7 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Thompson Island Picnic Area: 13.2 mi
  • Acadia National Park Picnic Area: 16.0 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Long Cove: 8.5 mi

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.5 miles of Ash Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cadillac MountainWSW466 m7.4 mi
Sargent MountainWSW419 m9.9 mi
Dorr MountainWSW387 m7.0 mi
Pemetic MountainSW380 m9.0 mi
Penobscot MountainWSW360 m9.9 mi
Champlain MountainSW323 m6.3 mi
Dike PeakSW321 m8.2 mi
Schoodic MountainNNW319 m11.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3718:0618:45
June solstice04:4919:3620:21
September equinox06:2017:5418:32
December solstice07:0615:0815:56

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242633445564706962514030
Precip in4.53.84.95.24.54.33.33.44.25.95.95.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Acadia NP, 8 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 561317 — Ash Mountain, Hancock County, Maine.

OpenStreetMap element node/358211059

More peaks in Maine

Day trips start here

Drive to it

Byway plans a real route around stops like this one.

Private beta · Free to join

Take the scenic way to Ash Mountain.

Byway plans around your taste, mapped places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.

Private beta · Free to join · No card · Invite when a spot opens