Bear Mountain
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Bear Mountain rises to 708 m in Connecticut. Mount Everett stands 793 m to the north-northeast, 4.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Sages Ravine Falls, a waterfall 0.7 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 21 miles off.
The story
Bear Mountain is a peak of the southern Taconic Mountains in Salisbury, Connecticut. At 2,316 feet (706 m), Bear Mountain is the highest mountain that lies wholly within Connecticut. However, it is not the state highpoint: in the 1940s, the United States Geological Survey determined that the highest elevation in the state, at 2,380 feet (725 m), was actually on the nearby Connecticut-Massachusetts border, on the southern slope of Massachusetts’ Mount Frissell. There is a stone monument on the Bear Mountain summit. The Appalachian Trail crosses the mountain in a generally north–south direction.
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Wikidata Q4876497, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 708 m
How to reach it
- 20.6 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Gridley Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Round Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Mount Plantain: 1.4 mi
- Mount Frissell: 1.5 mi
- Mount Ashley: 1.6 mi
- Mount Riga State Park: 1.2 mi
- Town Open Space: 1.7 mi
- Appalachian Trail Scenic Open Space: 1.9 mi
- Camp Hi-Rock: 2.0 mi
- Scoville Easement: 2.1 mi
- East Twin Lake Water Access: 3.6 mi
- Garrett Garden and Green: 3.7 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 4.5 mi
- Salisbury Village Open Space: 4.6 mi
- Trotta Field: 5.1 mi
- Holley Williams House Museum: 5.5 mi
- C H Pease Museum: 6.5 mi
- Connecticut Railroad Historical Museum: 6.6 mi
- Sheffield Historical Society: 6.9 mi
- FV - Canaan Historical Society: 7.8 mi
- Tri-State Marker: 1.7 mi
- Copake Iron Furnace: 6.0 mi
- Dough Boy: 6.6 mi
- Battlesite Monument: 7.9 mi
- East Canaan Veterans Monument: 9.0 mi
- Sages Ravine Falls: 0.7 mi
- Sages Ravine Falls: 0.8 mi
- Bear Rock Falls: 1.5 mi
- Sages Ravine Brook Falls: 1.5 mi
- Riga Falls: 2.6 mi
- Newsboy Statue: 10.4 mi
- Liebowitz Letter: 11.9 mi
- Naked Lady: 12.1 mi
- Diving Lady: 14.4 mi
- Divine Mercy: 18.3 mi
- trail parking: 5.6 mi
- Giant's Thumb: 5.7 mi
- Sheffield Covered Bridge: 7.5 mi
- Town Hill Farm: 7.6 mi
- Beckley Furnace: 8.6 mi
- Community Garden: 11.9 mi
- Flower Gardens: 16.5 mi
- Herb Gardens: 16.6 mi
- Heritage Garden: 16.6 mi
- Naumkeag Garden: 18.2 mi
- Devil’s Pulpit: 15.1 mi
- The Beech: 19.9 mi
- Space Invaders: 19.9 mi
- Squirrel Wall: 19.9 mi
- Cloud Buttress: 20.0 mi
- East Beach: 13.2 mi
- West Beach: 13.9 mi
- Holland Beach: 20.7 mi
- Oakdale Beach: 21.9 mi
- County Beach: 22.8 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 21.4 mi
- Hermit spring: 24.0 mi
- Big Spring: 24.1 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 24.8 mi
- Guilder Pond Picnic area: 4.4 mi
- Picnic Area: 12.6 mi
- Questing: 11.7 mi
- Dudley Town: 17.2 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 24.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.9 miles of Bear Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Everett | NNE 16° | 793 m | 4.1 mi |
| Mount Frissell | WNW 287° | 747 m | 1.5 mi |
| Mount Ashley | NW 318° | 725 m | 1.6 mi |
| Mount Race | NNE 24° | 723 m | 2.8 mi |
| Brace Mountain | W 269° | 706 m | 1.9 mi |
| South Brace Mountain | WSW 258° | 702 m | 1.9 mi |
| Round Mountain | WNW 284° | 695 m | 1.1 mi |
| Alander Mountain | NW 319° | 680 m | 3.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:51 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:41 | 16:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 26 | 34 | 47 | 57 | 66 | 71 | 70 | 62 | 50 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Copake, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359260039
Day trips start here
- Great Barrington · 11 mi
- Monterey · 15 mi
- Berkshires · 18 mi
- Stockbridge · 18 mi
- Lee · 21 mi
- Otis · 21 mi
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