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Bear Mountain

Bear Mountain, seen from above at true elevation

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

Coordinates40.87370, -75.69936

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • 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
Historic sites
Peaks
  • 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
Attractions
  • 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
Nature reserves: 41
Museums: 31
  • 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
Springs: 17
Gardens: 17
Artworks: 16
Waterfalls: 14
  • 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
Picnic sites: 14
  • 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
Beaches: 7
  • 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
Rest areas: 5
  • 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
Cliffs: 3
  • 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.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pimple HillNE 43°669 m14.6 mi
Lake MountainNNE 23°666 m12.7 mi
Bears HeadW 265°634 m19.9 mi
Pohopoco MountainNE 52°612 m14.2 mi
High KnobNE 46°608 m20.1 mi
Buck MountainNW 309°603 m15.5 mi
Arbutus PeakNNW 337°595 m21.4 mi
Green MountainNW 315°592 m15.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:3919:15
June solstice05:3219:5720:39
September equinox06:5118:2619:02
December solstice07:2515:5516:39

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F273038505967727063514132
Precip in3.82.93.93.94.35.24.64.95.64.73.94.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lehighton 1ssw, 4 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357276341

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