Bacon Ledge
Bacon Ledge rises to 570 m in New Hampshire. Osgood Hill stands 681 m to the south-southwest, 6.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Round Mountain, a peak 0.3 miles away. Currier & Ives Trail passes 8.8 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34807408, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 570 m
How to reach it
- 8.8 mi off the Currier & Ives Trail
- 13.7 mi off the Lake Sunapee Scenic Byway
- 15.8 mi off the General John Stark Scenic Byway
- 18.5 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Eagles Nest · 17 mi
- View of Bellows Falls · 19 mi
- Beal's Knob Vista · 23 mi
- Hubbard Hill Vista · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Gregg Lake Beach Park: 4.6 mi
- Manahan Park: 5.8 mi
- Franklin Pierce Homestead State Historic Site: 6.2 mi
- Camp Morgan: 6.7 mi
- Beards Brook Park: 7.1 mi
- Round Mountain: 0.3 mi
- Lightning Hill: 1.1 mi
- Stacy Hill: 1.2 mi
- Proctor Hill: 1.2 mi
- Holmes Hill: 1.6 mi
- Pierce Wildlife & Forest Reservation: 0.7 mi
- Loverens Mill Cedar Swamp Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Little Big Forest: 1.7 mi
- Harris Center Conservation Land: 1.9 mi
- Thurston V. Williams Family Forest: 3.0 mi
- Washington Historical Society: 6.6 mi
- Colony House Museum: 15.1 mi
- Horatio Colony Museum: 15.2 mi
- Aquarius No. 1 Fire Museum: 15.2 mi
- Cheshire County Historical Society: 15.2 mi
- Washington Civil War Memorial: 6.7 mi
- Keene Soldier's Monument: 14.9 mi
- Gravity Foundation Monument: 15.3 mi
- Oya Hill: 15.4 mi
- Liberty Tree Memorial: 16.2 mi
- Sunset Beach: 9.4 mi
- Picnickers Beach: 12.1 mi
- Campers Beach: 12.2 mi
- Ranger Beach: 14.9 mi
- Corona Beach: 15.4 mi
- Armillary: 12.1 mi
- Pizza Wings: 15.0 mi
- Johnathan Daniels: 15.0 mi
- Jennie B. Powers: 15.0 mi
- Baseball: 15.1 mi
- Gleason Falls: 6.9 mi
- Brennan Falls: 13.1 mi
- Bonner Falls: 16.8 mi
- Pollard Mills Falls: 18.6 mi
- Senter Falls: 19.1 mi
- Mine Ledge: 15.3 mi
- Billings Fold: 15.4 mi
- Black Precipice: 15.7 mi
- Table Rock: 19.1 mi
- Raymond Cliff: 20.0 mi
- Washington Community Garden: 6.8 mi
- John Pierce Garden: 12.1 mi
- Noahs Ark: 13.7 mi
- Garden at Tracy Library: 23.3 mi
- Parrish Shoes Sign (Jumanji): 15.0 mi
- Frog Rock: 20.0 mi
- Everett Dam: 20.3 mi
- Barrett House: 24.8 mi
- (seasonal): 8.3 mi
- Falcon Spring: 15.8 mi
- River Road Spring: 20.6 mi
- Newhall Recreation Area: 8.1 mi
- Wright Grove: 13.9 mi
- Hall Bridge: 21.7 mi
- Victorian Village Covered Bridge: 23.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.8 miles of Bacon Ledge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osgood Hill | SSW 197° | 681 m | 6.1 mi |
| Pitcher Mountain | WNW 283° | 653 m | 3.7 mi |
| Healey Hill | NW 320° | 627 m | 4.5 mi |
| Hodgeman Hill | W 275° | 626 m | 4.7 mi |
| Bald Mountain | SSE 158° | 617 m | 4.4 mi |
| Jackson Hill | NW 306° | 613 m | 5.6 mi |
| Copeland Hill | NW 316° | 604 m | 4.1 mi |
| Thumb Mountain | S 175° | 603 m | 7.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:23 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:10 | 19:49 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:10 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:30 | 16:17 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 21 | 23 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 59 | 47 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.5 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bradford 2, 13 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 865310 — Bacon Ledge, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
OpenStreetMap element node/357717418
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