Bear Hill
Bear Hill rises to 87 m in Maine. Hosac Mountain stands 393 m to the northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Indian Cellar Preserve, a nature reserve 2.7 miles away. PEQUAWKET TRAIL SCENIC BYWAY passes 9.4 miles off.
The story
Mountain in York County, Maine, United States of America.
Wikidata Q33136653, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 87 m
How to reach it
- 9.4 mi off the Pequawket Trail Scenic Byway
- 18.9 mi off the Branch River Valley Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Pleasant Point Park: 2.8 mi
- Hollis Sports Complex: 4.1 mi
- Town Farm Park: 5.1 mi
- Friendship Park: 5.1 mi
- Bonny Eagle Park: 6.3 mi
- Town Beach: 6.7 mi
- LAC private Beach 3: 7.6 mi
- LAC private Beach 5: 8.2 mi
- Kiwanis Beach: 9.9 mi
- Limerick Municipal Beach: 11.8 mi
- Roberts Ridge: 3.8 mi
- Chadbournes Ridge: 5.3 mi
- Ricker Hill: 6.0 mi
- Grant Hill: 6.1 mi
- Isinglass Hill: 6.2 mi
- Jayden's Journey Memorial Park: 7.5 mi
- Mariner's Circle: 9.7 mi
- Gorham Civil War Monument: 9.9 mi
- Phinney Park: 10.1 mi
- Memorial Rock: 10.3 mi
- Indian Cellar Preserve: 2.7 mi
- Googins Woods: 2.7 mi
- Knight-Cluff: 2.8 mi
- EE Brown-Ross: 2.9 mi
- Moses Woodman Preserve: 4.0 mi
- Buxton-Hollis Historical Society: 3.5 mi
- Alfred Shaker Museum: 8.6 mi
- North Chapel Project: 9.0 mi
- Alfred Village Museum: 10.0 mi
- Daniel Marrett House Museum: 10.0 mi
- Wire Globe: 9.9 mi
- Athlete Sculptures: 10.0 mi
- Tractor: 12.5 mi
- Fairy Village: 14.0 mi
- Tidal Moon: 15.4 mi
- Willowbrook Museum Village: 12.8 mi
- Ampitheater: 14.7 mi
- Elks Club: 15.0 mi
- Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve at Laudholm: 18.1 mi
- Portland Observatory: 18.6 mi
- Slackcrack: 11.1 mi
- Spurwink Rock Ledge: 17.6 mi
- Fryes Leap: 18.2 mi
- Cunner Ledges: 20.5 mi
- Cod Ledges: 20.7 mi
- Cascade Falls Waterfall: 10.8 mi
- Steep Falls: 13.7 mi
- Presumpscot Falls: 18.9 mi
- Hiram Falls: 20.0 mi
- Orris Falls: 22.8 mi
- Cold Bowling Spring: 13.1 mi
- Davis Spring: 18.0 mi
- Limington Rapids Rest Area: 9.7 mi
- Bug Light: 19.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.3 miles of Bear Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosac Mountain | NW 321° | 393 m | 13.7 mi |
| Sawyer Mountain | NW 325° | 370 m | 12.5 mi |
| Abbott Mountain | W 270° | 324 m | 11.3 mi |
| Joab Black Peak | NNW 326° | 315 m | 12.1 mi |
| Ossipee Hill | W 265° | 312 m | 6.6 mi |
| High Pasture | NNW 327° | 296 m | 12.1 mi |
| John Douglass Mountain | NNW 328° | 287 m | 11.9 mi |
| Hussey Mountain | W 264° | 274 m | 10.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:02 | 19:44 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:04 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:22 | 16:09 |
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 | 19 | 21 | 30 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 68 | 67 | 58 | 46 | 36 | 25 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 4.5 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hollis, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 561834 — Bear Hill, York County, Maine.
OpenStreetMap element node/358211559
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