Broad Mountain
Broad Mountain rises to 549 m in Pennsylvania. Pimple Hill stands 669 m to the east-northeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Cave Falls, a waterfall 2.5 miles away.
The story
Broad Mountain or Broad Ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians in Carbon County and Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania is a steep-faced, anthracite-bearing barrier ridge just south of both Beaver Meadows and Weatherly, north of Nesquehoning and west and south of the Lehigh River basin west of the southwest border of the Poconos. The mountain ridge line is mostly flat and looks very similar to the man-made piles of culm in the region from the roads and towns looking up.
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Wikidata Q25240927, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 549 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Locust Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Round Head Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Indian Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Penn Haven Mountain: 4.0 mi
- Scrub Mountain: 4.5 mi
- John F. Cerchiaro Memorial Park: 2.9 mi
- Earl Johnson Memorial Park: 3.3 mi
- Lehigh Gorge State Park: 4.4 mi
- Sam Miller Field: 4.4 mi
- Twining Park: 4.7 mi
- Jim Thorpe Monument: 4.6 mi
- Civil War Monument: 4.8 mi
- Honor Roll: 6.8 mi
- Spanish War Veterans Memorial: 6.9 mi
- Waternborne Veterans Memorial: 6.9 mi
- Lehigh Gorge State Park: 5.7 mi
- Butler Preserve: 7.2 mi
- Graystones Preserve: 8.6 mi
- Weiser State Forest Penn Forest Tract: 10.1 mi
- Hickory Run State Park: 10.6 mi
- Old Jail Museum: 4.5 mi
- Mauch Chunk Museum and Cultural Center: 4.6 mi
- Asa Packer Mansion: 4.7 mi
- Eckley Miner's Village Museum: 6.4 mi
- Summit Hill Historical Society: 6.9 mi
- Cave Falls: 2.5 mi
- Terrace Falls: 2.6 mi
- Onoko Falls: 2.7 mi
- Lower Falls: 2.7 mi
- Lukes Falls: 4.8 mi
- Philip Ginder Carved Rock: 7.0 mi
- Benjamin Franklin Statue: 7.8 mi
- Sons of Liberty: 12.7 mi
- Palmerton "Patches": 12.8 mi
- Nittany Lion Shrine: 12.8 mi
- Whitewater Rafting Adventures: 2.8 mi
- 100 Mile View: 5.1 mi
- Whitewater Challengers: 5.2 mi
- Pocono Whitewater: 8.4 mi
- Halls of Horror: 12.7 mi
- Glen Onoko Lehigh River Access: 3.1 mi
- Jim Thorpe Lehigh River Access: 4.8 mi
- Dunbars Lehigh River Access: 7.5 mi
- Walnutport Lehigh River Access: 15.4 mi
- Eagle Rock Beach: 16.3 mi
- Penn Springs: 5.3 mi
- Pocono Spring: 20.0 mi
- Stempa Spring: 21.0 mi
- Sand Spring: 21.8 mi
- Bill Warner Spring: 24.3 mi
- Luzerne County Rest Area Eastbound: 10.1 mi
- Blue Ridge Travel Plaza: 14.5 mi
- Luzerne County Rest Area Northbound: 15.5 mi
- Columbia County Rest Area Westbound: 24.1 mi
- Columbia County Rest Area Eastbound: 24.2 mi
- Stonehedge Gardens: 12.5 mi
- Butler Township Community Garden: 12.5 mi
- Palmerton Concourse Club Rose Garden: 12.7 mi
- Native Habitat Garden: 21.3 mi
- The Garden of Weedin: 24.1 mi
- Gorgeous Rocks: 2.8 mi
- Bear Mountain Overlook: 5.7 mi
- Devil's Elbow: 12.9 mi
- Camp Apple Tree: 4.2 mi
- Manny Gordon Recreation Area: 22.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.2 miles of Broad Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pimple Hill | ENE 62° | 669 m | 17.6 mi |
| Lake Mountain | NE 49° | 666 m | 14.0 mi |
| Bears Head | WSW 254° | 634 m | 14.9 mi |
| Pohopoco Mountain | ENE 69° | 612 m | 17.9 mi |
| Buck Mountain | NW 319° | 603 m | 9.7 mi |
| Arbutus Peak | N 351° | 595 m | 17.5 mi |
| Dry Land Hill | NNE 25° | 588 m | 18.5 mi |
| Bear Rock | NE 43° | 587 m | 12.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:08 | 18:39 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 19:58 | 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, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357363495
Day trips start here
- Whitehall Township · 23 mi
- Wilkes-Barre · 24 mi
- Allentown · 27 mi
- Lehigh Valley · 27 mi
- Nazareth · 28 mi
- Bethlehem · 30 mi
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