Dresser Hills
Dresser Hills rises to 381 m in New Hampshire. Mount Kearsarge stands 891 m to the northeast, 4.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Meetinghouse Hill, a peak 0.7 miles away. Lake Sunapee Scenic Byway passes 4.4 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34871936, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 381 m
How to reach it
- 4.4 mi off the Lake Sunapee Scenic Byway
- 9.0 mi off the Currier & Ives Trail
- 16.7 mi off the Canterbury Shaker Village Byway
- 16.8 mi off the General John Stark Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Eagles Nest · 7 mi
- Martin's Mill Covered Bridge · 28 mi
- View of Bellows Falls · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Meetinghouse Hill: 0.7 mi
- Wadleigh Hill: 1.8 mi
- Green Hill: 2.0 mi
- Pigeon Hill: 2.1 mi
- Dodge Hill: 2.1 mi
- Wadleigh State Park: 2.6 mi
- Warren Brook Park: 4.4 mi
- Whitman Park: 4.6 mi
- Winslow State Park: 4.9 mi
- Fishersfield Park: 5.0 mi
- Webb/Crowell Forest: 0.8 mi
- Shadow Hill State Forest: 1.7 mi
- Black Mountain Forest: 1.8 mi
- Russell Pond: 2.1 mi
- Sutton Pines: 2.3 mi
- Wadleigh State Beach: 2.6 mi
- Elkins Beach: 6.3 mi
- Blodgett Landing Coast: 6.9 mi
- State Park Beach: 7.4 mi
- Bucklin Beach: 8.5 mi
- Liberty Tree Memorial: 5.2 mi
- Gerrish Depot: 13.6 mi
- Washington Civil War Memorial: 13.9 mi
- William A. Fenlason Square: 15.5 mi
- Odell Park Arch: 15.7 mi
- Upton Chandler House Museum: 5.9 mi
- New Hampshire Telephone Museum: 6.1 mi
- John Hay Estate at The Fells: 6.5 mi
- Potter Place Depot: 8.0 mi
- Flanders-Osborne Museum: 9.2 mi
- Newport's Golden Eagle: 13.1 mi
- Uranus: 20.6 mi
- Neptune: 20.7 mi
- John Gilbert Winant: 20.7 mi
- Commodore George Hamilton Perkins: 20.8 mi
- Gleason Falls: 13.0 mi
- Pollard Mills Falls: 13.0 mi
- Profile Falls: 18.9 mi
- Big Dog Falls: 21.3 mi
- Litte Dog Falls: 21.3 mi
- Baker Ledge: 2.8 mi
- The Bulkhead: 10.5 mi
- Raymond Cliff: 20.3 mi
- The Ledges: 23.2 mi
- Mercury-Redstone Plaza: 20.6 mi
- Everett Dam: 20.8 mi
- Canterbury Shaker Village: 21.4 mi
- Cardigan Mountain State Park: 21.8 mi
- Garden at Tracy Library: 6.8 mi
- Washington Community Garden: 13.9 mi
- Botanical Garden: 21.6 mi
- Springfield Rest Area I-89 (North Bound): 13.4 mi
- Canterbury Rest Area: 15.7 mi
- Sanbornton Rest Area: 19.5 mi
- (seasonal): 11.4 mi
- Breck-Plankey Spring: 20.8 mi
- Hippy Hill: 13.8 mi
- Newhall Recreation Area: 21.6 mi
- Cillryville Bridge: 7.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.3 miles of Dresser Hills. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Kearsarge | NE 38° | 891 m | 4.8 mi |
| Summit | W 263° | 828 m | 8.0 mi |
| Sunapee Mountain | W 260° | 824 m | 7.6 mi |
| South Peak | W 260° | 794 m | 7.1 mi |
| Black Mountain | NE 40° | 774 m | 3.9 mi |
| Little Mountain | NE 48° | 710 m | 4.8 mi |
| North Peak | W 266° | 692 m | 7.9 mi |
| Bald Sunapee | WSW 243° | 632 m | 6.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:22 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 19:49 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:09 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:29 | 16:15 |
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 | 21 | 23 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 59 | 47 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.5 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bradford 2, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 866629 — Dresser Hills, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
OpenStreetMap element node/357719970
Day trips start here
- New London · 7 mi
- Dartmouth Lake Sunapee · 16 mi
- Franklin · 16 mi
- Tilton · 18 mi
- Concord · 20 mi
- Claremont · 22 mi
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