Billfish Mountain
Billfish Mountain rises to 488 m in Maine. Hamlin Peak stands 1,446 m to the south-southwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Bald Mountain, a peak 1.4 miles away. KATAHDIN WOODS & WATERS SCENIC BYWAY passes 1.1 miles off.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q33136921, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 488 m
How to reach it
- 1.1 mi off the KATAHDIN WOODS & WATERS SCENIC BYWAY, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Bald Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Horse Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Barrell Ridge: 2.0 mi
- Trout Brook Mountain: 2.3 mi
- North Traveler Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Haskell Rock Pitch: 4.3 mi
- South Branch Falls: 4.7 mi
- Pond Pitch: 5.0 mi
- Grand Pitch: 5.6 mi
- The Hulling Machine: 6.3 mi
- Trout Brook Crossing Picnic Area: 4.8 mi
- SFMA Picnic Area: 9.0 mi
- Burnt Mountain Picnic Area: 9.9 mi
- Dwelley Pond Picnic Area: 11.5 mi
- Halfway Brook Picnic Area: 12.0 mi
- Marble Fen Nature Preserve: 5.9 mi
- Scraggly Lake Public Reserved Land: 7.2 mi
- Seboeis River Gorge Preserve: 9.0 mi
- Mount Chase State Forest: 15.9 mi
- Wassataquoik Public Reserved Land: 18.6 mi
- Owls Head: 8.8 mi
- Snub Pitch: 8.8 mi
- Table Land: 15.9 mi
- The Gateway: 16.9 mi
- Windey Pitch: 16.9 mi
- Baxter Game Preserve: 12.7 mi
- Patten Lumbermans Museum: 19.3 mi
- Town of Patten Recreation Area: 19.7 mi
- Whetstone Falls Day Use Area: 20.3 mi
- Baxter State Park: 14.2 mi
- Patten Academy Monument & Bell: 19.7 mi
- Caribou Spring: 14.7 mi
- Thoreau Spring: 16.6 mi
- Patten Lumbermans Museum: 19.3 mi
- Individual Flower Gardens: 19.7 mi
- Long Beach, Lower Togue Pond, Baxter State Park, Millinocket, Maine, USA: 21.3 mi
- Pockwockamus Rock: 22.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.5 miles of Billfish Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamlin Peak | SSW 201° | 1,446 m | 14.7 mi |
| Howe Peaks | SSW 202° | 1,416 m | 14.1 mi |
| North Brother | SW 215° | 1,235 m | 14.0 mi |
| South Brother | SW 216° | 1,208 m | 15.2 mi |
| Fort Mountain | SW 214° | 1,171 m | 13.5 mi |
| The Traveler | SSW 202° | 1,079 m | 3.7 mi |
| The Brothers | SW 216° | 1,048 m | 14.5 mi |
| Traveler Mountain | SSW 202° | 1,034 m | 3.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:39 | 18:08 | 18:48 |
| June solstice | 04:45 | 19:44 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:23 | 17:55 | 18:35 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:02 | 15:53 |
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 | 13 | 16 | 25 | 38 | 51 | 60 | 66 | 64 | 56 | 44 | 33 | 21 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Patten 2, 17 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 562263 — Billfish Mountain, Piscataquis County, Maine.
OpenStreetMap element node/358211896
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