Front Mountain
Front Mountain rises to 604 m in Pennsylvania. Little Flat stands 738 m to the west, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Sand Mountain, a peak 1.8 miles away. Bucktail Trail passes 26 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49030683, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 604 m
How to reach it
- 26.3 mi off the Bucktail Trail
- 29.8 mi off the High Plateau Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Mira Lloyd Dock Resource Conservation Center: 3.0 mi
- Milroy Baseball Fields: 4.2 mi
- Potter Run Park: 4.4 mi
- Reedsville Playground: 6.9 mi
- Bender Park: 7.3 mi
- Hobart King Kistler: 6.7 mi
- Indian Monument: 7.0 mi
- CCC Monument (stone fireplace and chimney): 8.1 mi
- Old Centre Hall Pennsylvania Railroad Depot: 8.1 mi
- Railroad Bed Historical Marker: 8.7 mi
- Sand Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Crissman Knob: 2.4 mi
- Kohler Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Little Poe Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Long Mtn Peak: 3.4 mi
- Mammoth Spring: 4.8 mi
- Havice Spring: 5.1 mi
- White Pine Spring: 7.2 mi
- McKinney Spring: 7.8 mi
- Coffee Run Spring: 8.7 mi
- Beer Tap: 7.7 mi
- Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park: 8.6 mi
- Lewistown Armory: 10.2 mi
- M60A3 Tank: 12.5 mi
- M114A2 Towed 155mm Howitzer: 12.5 mi
- Rhoneymeade Arboretum & Sculpture Garden: 9.1 mi
- Rock Hill School at Linden Hall: 11.0 mi
- McCoy House: 11.6 mi
- Boalsburg Heritage Museum: 12.2 mi
- Pennsylvania Military Museum: 12.5 mi
- Yoda Statue: 11.6 mi
- Honors to the Fallen: 12.4 mi
- Lucy C. Lederer Statue: 15.0 mi
- Via Air Mail: 15.3 mi
- Bells Across PA - "Stories of Our Railroad": 15.5 mi
- Poe Valley State Park: 5.8 mi
- State Game Lands Number 107: 11.2 mi
- Stan Yoder Memorial Preserve: 12.9 mi
- Stony Batter Natural Area: 13.3 mi
- Spring Creek Canyon: 14.7 mi
- Long Lane Flower & Garden: 9.4 mi
- The Giving Garden: 14.2 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 15.0 mi
- Bellefonte Community Children's Garden: 15.5 mi
- Penn State Community Garden Pollinator Garden: 15.6 mi
- Rocks at Laurel Creek Reservoir: 4.5 mi
- Chimney Rock Overlook: 14.7 mi
- The Rock: 15.1 mi
- Hunter Rock: 22.0 mi
- "Holy Toledo" roadcut: 22.1 mi
- Snyder-Middleswarth Picnic Area: 14.7 mi
- Rock Springs Picnic Area: 15.4 mi
- Hairy Johns PIcnic Area: 17.5 mi
- Karl Guss Picnic Area: 17.5 mi
- Longfellow Vista: 18.8 mi
- Kish park beach access: 9.8 mi
- Beach access to Kish Creek: 11.7 mi
- Rosecrans Falls: 24.6 mi
- Rosecran Falls: 24.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.5 miles of Front Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Flat | W 265° | 738 m | 10.4 mi |
| Thickhead Mountain | W 259° | 733 m | 7.3 mi |
| Big Flat | WSW 256° | 732 m | 12.3 mi |
| The Winehead | NNE 19° | 724 m | 14.3 mi |
| Grass Mountain | WSW 250° | 717 m | 9.4 mi |
| Broad Mountain | WSW 249° | 716 m | 6.2 mi |
| Milligans Knob | SW 229° | 711 m | 8.4 mi |
| Bald Knob | W 268° | 700 m | 11.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:15 | 18:46 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 20:04 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 16:03 | 16:46 |
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 | 24 | 27 | 35 | 47 | 58 | 67 | 71 | 69 | 61 | 50 | 39 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Millheim, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1175294 — Front Mountain, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
OpenStreetMap element node/357286674
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