Bear Mountain
Bear Mountain rises to 506 m in Pennsylvania. Pimple Hill stands 669 m to the northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Bear Mountain Overlook, a cliff 0.9 miles away. Delaware River Valley passes 27 miles off.
The story
Bear Mountain, in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania several miles above the Lehigh Gap, is a steep-sided east bank ridgeline running about 9.96 miles (16.03 km) between the hairpin turn in the Lehigh the Lenape Amerindian people (Delaware people) visualized as a bear's snout, along many water gap gorges, to the steep face dropping down to the Penn Forest Reservoir. The sparsely settled mountain ridge is part of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, oriented east-northeast towards the Delaware River climbing rapidly from the Lehigh left bank shoreline from about 580 feet (180 m) over an overhanging knob opposite the mouth of Mauch Chunk Creek to more than 1,200 feet (370 m) in less than 1.01 miles (1.63 km) and to over 1,480 feet (450 m) in just 1.34 miles (2.16 km) the tourism and business district of Jim Thorpe. Bear Mountain is the prominent peak opposite the business district of the tourist attractions of Jim Thorpe in Carbon County, once termed being in the heart of "Switzerland of the United States". The former township and borough of East Mauch Chunk was settled outside the hustle and confusion of cross-river boomtown Mauch Chunk
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Wikidata Q28056311, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 506 m
How to reach it
- 27.5 mi off the Delaware River Valley
Named places within 25 miles
- Jim Thorpe Memorial Park: 1.4 mi
- Twining Park: 1.9 mi
- Kemmerer Park: 2.1 mi
- Sam Miller Field: 2.3 mi
- Flagstaff Mountain Park: 2.3 mi
- Jim Thorpe Monument: 1.6 mi
- Civil War Monument: 2.1 mi
- Community Enhancement 2006 Greening Award: 6.8 mi
- Palmerton Area Veteran's Memorial: 6.8 mi
- Old Chain Bridge: 6.8 mi
- Pocono Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Scrub Mountain: 4.4 mi
- Mahoning Hills: 5.1 mi
- Locust Mountain: 5.4 mi
- Kettle Hill: 5.6 mi
- 100 Mile View: 2.7 mi
- Whitewater Rafting Adventures: 5.1 mi
- Pocono Whitewater: 5.5 mi
- Halls of Horror: 6.8 mi
- Whitewater Challengers: 8.8 mi
- Beltzville State Park: 5.6 mi
- Lehigh Gap Wildlife Refuge: 6.7 mi
- Weiser State Forest Penn Forest Tract: 6.9 mi
- Lehigh Gorge State Park: 7.7 mi
- Graystones Preserve: 8.8 mi
- Asa Packer Mansion: 2.1 mi
- Mauch Chunk Museum and Cultural Center: 2.4 mi
- Old Jail Museum: 2.6 mi
- Lehigh Gap Historical Society: 6.6 mi
- Summit Hill Historical Society: 9.8 mi
- Penn Springs: 5.0 mi
- Bake Oven Knob Shelter Spring #1: 8.4 mi
- Bake Oven Knob Shelter Spring #2: 8.5 mi
- Bake Oven Knob Shelter Spring #3: 8.5 mi
- Stempa Spring: 14.9 mi
- Palmerton Concourse Club Rose Garden: 6.8 mi
- Stonehedge Gardens: 14.9 mi
- The Garden of Weedin: 18.6 mi
- Butler Township Community Garden: 18.6 mi
- Jordan Creek Community Garden: 20.0 mi
- Benjamin Franklin Statue: 3.0 mi
- Sons of Liberty: 6.8 mi
- Palmerton "Patches": 6.8 mi
- Fireman's Drinking Fountain: 9.6 mi
- Philip Ginder Carved Rock: 9.9 mi
- Lower Falls: 3.5 mi
- Onoko Falls: 3.6 mi
- Terrace Falls: 3.6 mi
- Cave Falls: 3.7 mi
- Lukes Falls: 6.9 mi
- Camp Apple Tree: 5.0 mi
- Parkside Pavillion: 22.0 mi
- Food Fest Grove: 22.1 mi
- Carousel Grove: 22.2 mi
- Picnic Grove: 22.2 mi
- Jim Thorpe Lehigh River Access: 2.0 mi
- Dunbars Lehigh River Access: 2.7 mi
- Glen Onoko Lehigh River Access: 3.2 mi
- Walnutport Lehigh River Access: 10.0 mi
- Indain Mountain Lake Beach: 13.5 mi
- Luzerne County Rest Area Eastbound: 14.1 mi
- Blue Ridge Travel Plaza: 20.0 mi
- Luzerne County Rest Area Northbound: 20.8 mi
- Crescent Lake Rest Area: 22.1 mi
- Rest Area: 23.2 mi
- Bear Mountain Overlook: 0.9 mi
- Gorgeous Rocks: 3.4 mi
- Devil's Elbow: 15.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.4 miles of Bear Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pimple Hill | NE 43° | 669 m | 14.6 mi |
| Lake Mountain | NNE 23° | 666 m | 12.7 mi |
| Bears Head | W 265° | 634 m | 19.9 mi |
| Pohopoco Mountain | NE 52° | 612 m | 14.2 mi |
| High Knob | NE 46° | 608 m | 20.1 mi |
| Buck Mountain | NW 309° | 603 m | 15.5 mi |
| Arbutus Peak | NNW 337° | 595 m | 21.4 mi |
| Green Mountain | NW 315° | 592 m | 15.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:39 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 19:57 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:26 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 15:55 | 16:39 |
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 | 27 | 30 | 38 | 50 | 59 | 67 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 51 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 2.9 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lehighton 1ssw, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357276341
Day trips start here
- Whitehall Township · 18 mi
- Allentown · 22 mi
- Lehigh Valley · 22 mi
- Nazareth · 22 mi
- Bethlehem · 24 mi
- Bangor · 26 mi
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