Baker Peak
Baker Peak rises to 872 m in Vermont. Dorset Mountain stands 1,149 m to the west-southwest, 3.7 miles off. The nearest named place is South Buckball Peak, a peak 1.1 miles away. Scenic Route 100 Byway passes 8.8 miles off.
The story
mountain in Vermont, United States of America
Wikidata Q35724803, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 872 m
How to reach it
- 8.8 mi off the Scenic Route 100 Byway
- 8.6 mi off the Stone Valley Byway
- 19.4 mi off the Crossroad of Vermont Byway
- 24.4 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
Overlooks nearby
- Lincoln Covered Bridge · 27 mi
- Kane's Falls · 28 mi
- View of Bellows Falls · 30 mi
- Mt Tom · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- South Buckball Peak: 1.1 mi
- Buckball Peak: 1.3 mi
- Peru Peak: 2.6 mi
- Pete Parent Peak: 2.8 mi
- Mount Tabor: 3.3 mi
- Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area: 3.5 mi
- Emerald Lake State Park: 4.2 mi
- Weston Recreation Area: 8.5 mi
- Farrar Park: 8.8 mi
- Wallingford Main Street Historic District: 9.9 mi
- Old Stone Shop: 9.7 mi
- Paul P Harris: 10.0 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 11.6 mi
- The Revolutionary War: 12.8 mi
- A.W.Gray & Sons: 13.2 mi
- The Old Mill Museum: 8.8 mi
- Farrar-Mansur House: 8.8 mi
- Community Historical Museum of Mount Holly: 9.2 mi
- Dorset Historical Society Museum: 9.3 mi
- The American Museum of Fly Fishing: 12.4 mi
- Bobby Comfort Town Forest: 6.4 mi
- Lynn Pitcher Memorial Forest: 7.0 mi
- Wendy Evarts Memorial Forest: 7.6 mi
- Friends of Haystack: 11.8 mi
- Merck Forest: 11.8 mi
- McGinn Falls: 1.3 mi
- Natural Bridge Falls: 3.6 mi
- Buttermilk Upper Falls: 13.7 mi
- Buttermilk Middle Falls: 13.8 mi
- Buttermilk Lower Falls: 13.9 mi
- Art Gallery: 10.1 mi
- Bear: 15.1 mi
- Stratton Bear: 16.3 mi
- Chiseled Slate monoliths: 19.0 mi
- Rutland Water Fountain: 19.2 mi
- Kingsley Covered Bridge: 13.5 mi
- Titcomb Covered Bridge: 22.5 mi
- Bartonsville Covered Bridge: 22.5 mi
- Upper Falls Covered Bridge: 22.5 mi
- Scott Covered Bridge: 23.5 mi
- Taylor Farm: 9.0 mi
- Site of Original Burton Snowboard Factory and Shop: 10.3 mi
- Ballard Farm: 12.6 mi
- Magic Mountain Ski Area: 12.9 mi
- TimberQuest: 13.1 mi
- The Ox Bow: 7.3 mi
- Whetstone Bluff: 20.4 mi
- Blueberry Ledges: 21.7 mi
- Lower Tier: 24.0 mi
- Upper Tier: 24.1 mi
- Manchester Community Garden: 11.2 mi
- Southeast Community Garden: 18.7 mi
- Northwest Community Garden: 19.7 mi
- Northeast Community Garden: 20.1 mi
- Yellow Barn Farm: 20.1 mi
- Spruce Peak Shelter Spring: 10.6 mi
- Stoughton Pond Recreation Area: 23.3 mi
- Vermont Welcome Center: 24.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.4 miles of Baker Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorset Mountain | WSW 248° | 1,149 m | 3.7 mi |
| Dorset Mountain, South Peak | WSW 247° | 1,134 m | 4.1 mi |
| Peru Peak | SSE 155° | 1,041 m | 2.6 mi |
| Styles Peak | SSE 164° | 1,028 m | 4.0 mi |
| Mother Myrick Mountain | SW 225° | 1,022 m | 11.2 mi |
| Bromley Mountain | S 172° | 1,000 m | 7.1 mi |
| Mount Aeolus | SSW 213° | 978 m | 7.3 mi |
| South Mountain | ENE 71° | 968 m | 10.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:53 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 15:33 | 16:20 |
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 | 17 | 21 | 28 | 40 | 53 | 61 | 66 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 34 | 24 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 5.2 | 3.7 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Peru, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1460543 — Baker Peak, Rutland County, Vermont.
OpenStreetMap element node/356554917
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- Brownsville · 26 mi
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