Big Round Top
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Big Round Top rises to 235 m in Pennsylvania. Snowy Mountain stands 637 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is 119th PA Ellemaker, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway passes 0.9 miles off.
The story
Big Round Top is a boulder-strewn hill notable as the topographic high point of the Gettysburg Battlefield and for 1863 American Civil War engagements for which Medals of Honor were awarded. In addition to battle monuments, a historic reconstruction era structure on the uninhabited hill is the Big Round Top Observation Tower Foundation Ruin.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q4906242, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 235 m
How to reach it
- 0.9 mi off the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway, National
- 6.7 mi off the Old Main Streets
- 16.9 mi off the Mason and Dixon Byway
- 22.9 mi off the Falls Road
Overlooks nearby
- CS Sharpshooter's position · 1 mi
- Chimney Rock · 15 mi
- Middletown Overlook · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Round Top: 0.4 mi
- Powers Hill: 1.6 mi
- Sheep Heaven: 2.3 mi
- Cemetery Hill: 2.5 mi
- Culps Hill: 2.5 mi
- Gettysburg Recreational Park: 2.6 mi
- West Fields: 3.6 mi
- Gettysburg Municipal Authority: 3.7 mi
- Straban Township Park: 5.2 mi
- Norm Weaver Memorial Park: 5.9 mi
- 119th PA Ellemaker: 0.0 mi
- 5th PA Reserves "34th PA Vol Infantry Regt" Dare: 0.1 mi
- 118th PA “Corn Exchange Reg” Gwyn: 0.1 mi
- 20th ME Chamberlain: 0.1 mi
- 12th PA Reserves "41st PA Vol Infantry Regt" Hardin: 0.1 mi
- Gettysburg Museum: 1.8 mi
- Ford Motor Company Fund Education Center: 1.9 mi
- Lincoln Train Museum: 2.2 mi
- Gettysburg Heritage Center: 2.3 mi
- Battlefield Military Museum: 2.3 mi
- Spangler's Spring: 2.2 mi
- Menchey’s Spring: 2.5 mi
- Katelysine Spring: 3.7 mi
- Koontz Spring: 8.3 mi
- Fountaindale Spring: 9.3 mi
- Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg: 1.8 mi
- Women's Memorial: 2.4 mi
- Return visit: 3.1 mi
- Fr. John Dubois: 9.4 mi
- St. Francis: 9.5 mi
- Frank Bentz Pond Fish Management Area: 15.1 mi
- Caledonia State Park: 15.3 mi
- Spiegle Cooperative Wildlife Management Area: 15.9 mi
- Union Mills Reservoir Area: 15.9 mi
- Hahn Cooperative Wildlife Management Area: 16.0 mi
- John Eisenhower Bridge: 1.8 mi
- Sachs Covered Bridge: 2.1 mi
- Pumpkin Cannon: 15.5 mi
- Catoctin Furnace: 17.6 mi
- Walkersville Southern Railroad: 21.7 mi
- Filbert/Diller Corner Garden: 12.8 mi
- 9-11 Memorial Garden: 16.6 mi
- Cameron-Masland Mansion Garden: 21.2 mi
- Peace Garden: 23.7 mi
- Shippensburg University Campus Farm: 23.9 mi
- Founder's Plaza: 9.4 mi
- Chestnut Picnic Area: 15.9 mi
- Owens Creek Picnic Area: 16.0 mi
- Cape Horn Picnic Grove: 21.4 mi
- Tartown: 11.6 mi
- Harmony Grove: 24.5 mi
- Sachs Covered Bridge: 2.1 mi
- Mason-Dixon Welcome Center: 6.7 mi
- Clermont Crag: 13.5 mi
- Beach Front: 14.5 mi
- Cunningham Falls: 16.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.1 miles of Big Round Top. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snowy Mountain | WNW 284° | 637 m | 13.9 mi |
| Buzzard Peak | W 280° | 593 m | 12.5 mi |
| The Knob | WNW 293° | 573 m | 11.8 mi |
| Virginia Rock | W 265° | 545 m | 12.0 mi |
| Mount Newman | NW 304° | 544 m | 12.5 mi |
| Chimney Rocks | W 280° | 535 m | 12.4 mi |
| Wildcat Rocks | W 261° | 533 m | 12.3 mi |
| Briar Mountain | W 277° | 533 m | 13.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 20:01 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 16:05 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 33 | 41 | 52 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Eisenhower NHS, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1193222 — Round Top, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
OpenStreetMap element node/7128731210
Day trips start here
- Gettysburg · 3 mi
- Hanover · 14 mi
- Thurmont · 14 mi
- Catoctin Mountain Park · 15 mi
- Westminster · 19 mi
- Frederick County · 23 mi
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