Chairback Mountain
Chairback Mountain rises to 668 m in Maine. White Cap Mountain stands 1,109 m to the north, 6.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Columbus Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. MOOSEHEAD LAKE SCENIC BYWAY passes 15 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q33137728, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 667.5 m
How to reach it
- 14.9 mi off the Moosehead Lake Scenic Byway
- 27.3 mi off the Katahdin Woods & Waters Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Columbus Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Roundtop Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Third Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Houston Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Ore Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Hays Brook Falls: 2.2 mi
- Screw Auger Falls: 3.0 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 4.1 mi
- Billings Falls: 4.8 mi
- Stair Falls: 4.8 mi
- Gulf Hagas-Whitecap: 1.5 mi
- Bowdoin College Grant W Public Reserved Land: 3.6 mi
- Silver Lake: 3.8 mi
- Barnard Forest: 4.7 mi
- Borestone Mountain Audubon Sanctuary: 8.4 mi
- Sebec Lake Boat Access: 11.5 mi
- Davis Field: 12.5 mi
- Sebec Lake Public Beach: 14.2 mi
- Greeley's Landing: 14.2 mi
- Schoodic Lake Boat Access: 18.4 mi
- Moosehead Marine Museum: 16.3 mi
- Center for Moosehead History - Moosehead Historical Society: 16.4 mi
- Old Blacksmith Shop Museum: 17.9 mi
- dih cheese fort: 18.9 mi
- Guilford Historical Society: 20.8 mi
- Katahdin Iron Works State Historic Site: 4.0 mi
- Northeast Whitewater: 17.4 mi
- Blacksmith Shop Museum: 17.5 mi
- Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society: 18.9 mi
- The Jaws: 3.9 mi
- Barren Slide: 7.6 mi
- Big Wilson Cliffs: 10.6 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 16.4 mi
- Monument Square: 18.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.2 miles of Chairback Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Cap Mountain | N 4° | 1,109 m | 6.8 mi |
| Baker Mountain | NW 320° | 1,063 m | 10.4 mi |
| Little Spruce Mountain | NNE 19° | 980 m | 5.9 mi |
| West Peak | NNW 343° | 965 m | 6.4 mi |
| Lily Bay Mountain | NW 317° | 963 m | 12.8 mi |
| Big Shanty Mountain | NNE 25° | 948 m | 7.0 mi |
| Big Spruce Mountain | N 5° | 944 m | 5.3 mi |
| Saddleback Mountain | ENE 58° | 905 m | 6.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:41 | 18:10 | 18:49 |
| June solstice | 04:49 | 19:44 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:25 | 17:58 | 18:37 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:08 | 15:57 |
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 | 15 | 18 | 28 | 40 | 53 | 62 | 67 | 66 | 58 | 46 | 35 | 23 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 4.3 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Barnard, 13 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 563796 — Chairback Mountain, Piscataquis County, Maine.
OpenStreetMap element node/358213235
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