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Carter Hill

Carter Hill, seen from above at true elevation

Carter Hill rises to 341 m in New Hampshire. Mount Monadnock stands 965 m to the northwest, 6.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Carey Park, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Mohawk Trail - MA passes 20 miles off.

About

The story

mountain in the United States of America

Wikidata Q34837264, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
341 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.79073, -72.02931

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Humiston Park: 1.2 mi
  • Mountain Brook Reservoir Conservation Easement: 1.2 mi
  • Town Common: 1.7 mi
  • Howard Memorial Park: 2.1 mi
  • Centennial Park: 2.7 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Cultural Cocoon: 7.2 mi
  • Clyde II: 7.6 mi
  • Armillary: 8.1 mi
  • Schoolboy of 1850: 12.2 mi
  • South Royalston Chicken: 12.6 mi
Museums: 31
  • Rindge Historcal Museum: 3.0 mi
  • Mariposa Museum: 7.2 mi
  • Aquarius No. 1 Fire Museum: 7.3 mi
  • Winchendon Historical Society: 7.6 mi
  • Troy Historical Society: 8.2 mi
Attractions: 22
Beaches: 21
  • Jowder's Cove Beach: 0.7 mi
  • Contoocook Lake Public Beach: 1.2 mi
  • Sandy Beach: 2.0 mi
  • Ranger Beach: 5.4 mi
  • Fitzwilliam Town Beach on Laurel Lake: 7.4 mi
Waterfalls: 20
  • Falls Brook Falls: 10.6 mi
  • Bonner Falls: 11.8 mi
  • Royalston Falls: 12.2 mi
  • Spirit Falls: 12.2 mi
  • Doane's Falls: 13.1 mi
Cliffs: 10
Gardens: 7
  • Noahs Ark: 6.6 mi
  • John Pierce Garden: 8.2 mi
  • Phillipston Community Garden: 14.9 mi
  • St. Paul's Community Garden: 15.0 mi
  • Sundial Community Garden: 18.1 mi
Springs: 3
  • Falcon Spring: 5.4 mi
  • The Ashburnham Spring: 12.0 mi
  • River Road Spring: 22.3 mi
Picnic sites: 3
Rest areas: 1
  • Johnny Appleseed Visitor Information Center: 25.0 mi
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.6 miles of Carter Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount MonadnockNW 321°965 m6.3 mi
Bald RockNW 318°790 m5.9 mi
Monte RosaNW 317°749 m6.2 mi
Pack Monadnock MountainENE 57°692 m9.1 mi
Holt PeakENE 71°623 m7.7 mi
Burton PeakENE 76°605 m7.2 mi
Temple MountainENE 64°596 m8.0 mi
Gap Mountain - South PeakWNW 290°579 m5.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5218:2319:00
June solstice05:1119:4820:31
September equinox06:3618:1018:47
December solstice07:1615:3216:18

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222432455766716962493829
Precip in3.33.44.03.83.74.34.34.04.35.13.84.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jaffrey Silver RCH Airpark, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 866019 — Carter Hill, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.

OpenStreetMap element node/357718844

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