Bear Trap Mountain
Bear Trap Mountain rises to 529 m in Pennsylvania. High Knob stands 690 m to the northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Pike County Rest Area Eastbound, a rest area 0.2 miles away. Upper Delaware Scenic Byway (Route 97) passes 15 miles off.
The story
mountain in Pennsylvania, United States of America
Wikidata Q49011521, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 529 m
How to reach it
- 14.9 mi off the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway (Route 97)
- 18.3 mi off the Governor Casey Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Scenic Overlook (Carbondale) · 19 mi
- Lifting Rocks Overlook · 26 mi
- Park Avenue Observatory · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ironwood Park: 3.0 mi
- T-Dock (pier): 4.0 mi
- Carlton Drake Memorial Park: 6.1 mi
- Riverside Park: 8.3 mi
- Bingham Park: 8.4 mi
- Gates Hill: 4.1 mi
- Briar Hill: 4.1 mi
- Tarey Hill: 4.4 mi
- Big Hill: 4.5 mi
- West Hill: 5.5 mi
- Wallenpaupack Lake Estates 9/11 Memorial: 3.8 mi
- Gertrude Walker Gift to the Lacawac Sanctuary: 3.9 mi
- Franklin Memorial Wall: 14.6 mi
- Bridge: 14.9 mi
- Red Caboose Museum: 14.9 mi
- Lacawac Sanctuary: 4.0 mi
- Shuman Point Natural Area: 5.9 mi
- Mount Wismer Nature Preserve: 8.9 mi
- Gravel Family Preserve: 9.3 mi
- Chestnut Mountain Nature Preserve: 11.5 mi
- Indian Ladder Falls: 7.9 mi
- Wangum Falls: 9.4 mi
- Bond Hill Falls: 12.2 mi
- Carley Brook Falls: 13.9 mi
- Little Falls: 17.6 mi
- What's this?: 2.8 mi
- osprey nest: 3.8 mi
- Deagan Chimes: 3.8 mi
- floating weather station: 4.0 mi
- weather station: 4.3 mi
- Dorflinger Glass Museum: 11.9 mi
- Gouldsboro Train Station: 14.5 mi
- Cresco Station Museum: 14.7 mi
- Zane Grey Museum: 14.8 mi
- Tobyhanna Train Station: 16.3 mi
- Deer Beach: 3.5 mi
- Sandy Beach: 5.7 mi
- Gravel Beach: 6.3 mi
- Palmyra Township Public Beach: 6.4 mi
- Laurel Ridge Beach: 9.6 mi
- native plant garden: 4.2 mi
- Labyrinth Garden: 5.0 mi
- Muriel's Garden: 8.5 mi
- Glacier Lake Garden: 15.7 mi
- The Smith-Harker Community Garden: 19.3 mi
- Worthington Scranton Statue: 21.4 mi
- Nittany Lion Shrine: 21.4 mi
- Penn State Nittany Lion: 21.6 mi
- Glass Tentacles: 22.3 mi
- Jacob and the Angel Sculpture: 22.7 mi
- Horeshoe picnic grove: 5.9 mi
- Willow picnic grove: 6.0 mi
- Robin Cove Picnic Area: 8.7 mi
- Pecks Pond Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
- Toms Creek Recreation Site: 21.3 mi
- Pike County Rest Area Eastbound: 0.2 mi
- Pike County Rest Area Westbound: 0.4 mi
- Crescent Lake Rest Area: 21.8 mi
- Octave Spring: 18.3 mi
- Bill Warner Spring: 19.4 mi
- Sand Spring: 23.6 mi
- Conashaugh: 20.3 mi
- Eshback: 21.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.6 miles of Bear Trap Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Knob | NW 326° | 690 m | 19.3 mi |
| Salem Hill | NW 317° | 686 m | 17.9 mi |
| Dresser Hill | SW 216° | 673 m | 12.1 mi |
| Panther Hill | WSW 251° | 662 m | 21.6 mi |
| Turkey Knoll | SSW 204° | 655 m | 13.1 mi |
| Blair Hill | WSW 249° | 645 m | 18.3 mi |
| Shaffers Knob | SSW 207° | 634 m | 11.9 mi |
| Mount Wismer | S 191° | 627 m | 8.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:37 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:28 | 19:57 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 15:51 | 16:35 |
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 | 23 | 25 | 33 | 45 | 56 | 65 | 69 | 67 | 60 | 49 | 38 | 29 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hawley 1 E, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1168956 — Bear Trap Mountain, Pike County, Pennsylvania.
OpenStreetMap element node/357276356
Day trips start here
- Pocono Mountains · 6 mi
- Sterling · 10 mi
- Dunmore · 21 mi
- Northeastern Pennsylvania · 22 mi
- Scranton · 23 mi
- Clarks Summit · 27 mi
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