Hawk Mountain
Hawk Mountain rises to 444 m in Pennsylvania. Bears Head stands 634 m to the north-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Owl Totem Pole, a artwork 0.7 miles away. Route 419 Scenic Byway passes 23 miles off.
The story
Hawk Mountain is a mountain ridge, part of the Blue Mountain Ridge in the Appalachian Mountain chain, located in central-eastern Pennsylvania near Reading and Allentown. The area includes 13,000 acres (5,300 ha) of protected private and public land, including the 2,600-acre (1,100 ha) Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. The River of Rocks is visible and accessible from the Sanctuary. The boulders were formed by periglacial processes in the Pleistocene epoch, or "ice age".
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Wikidata Q5684837, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 444 m
How to reach it
- 23.1 mi off the Route 419 Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: 0.8 mi
- Deer Lake Fossil Site: 4.5 mi
- Windsor Township Park: 5.6 mi
- Hamburg Community Park: 6.0 mi
- Kaercher Creek Park: 6.0 mi
- Auburn Desilting Basin monument: 7.8 mi
- Shellhamer Ice Dam: 9.5 mi
- Newkirk Veterans Memorial: 10.1 mi
- Schuylkill Canal: 10.4 mi
- KIA: 10.4 mi
- Cobble: 1.1 mi
- Hemlock Heights: 1.2 mi
- Owls Head: 1.6 mi
- Dans Pulpit: 2.0 mi
- The Pinnacle: 4.2 mi
- Crystal Cave: 11.0 mi
- Kutztown Fairgrounds: 13.6 mi
- Christmas Village Railroad: 17.8 mi
- Wishing Well: 17.8 mi
- Christmas in Other Lands: 17.8 mi
- Hamburg Area Historical Society: 6.3 mi
- Reading Railroad Heritage Museum: 6.8 mi
- The No. 9 Coal Mine & Museum: 13.4 mi
- Summit Hill Historical Society: 13.5 mi
- Old Spokes Car Museum: 14.1 mi
- Owl Totem Pole: 0.7 mi
- Sesquicentennial Mural: 6.8 mi
- Philip Ginder Carved Rock: 13.4 mi
- Anthony P. Domato Mural: 16.8 mi
- Santa Claus: 17.9 mi
- State Game Lands Number 222: 5.0 mi
- Jefferson Tract - Weiser State Forest: 9.0 mi
- State Game Lands Number 110: 9.1 mi
- Locust Lake State Park: 11.8 mi
- Second Mountain Tract - Weiser State Forest: 15.8 mi
- Native Habitat Garden: 0.9 mi
- Hamburg Community Garden: 6.7 mi
- Stonehedge Gardens: 8.2 mi
- Andrew Maier Pollinator Garden: 15.0 mi
- Castle Green Garden: 15.1 mi
- Pocahontas Spring: 4.4 mi
- Pine Spring: 12.6 mi
- Peters Creek Spring: 13.6 mi
- Geiles Spring: 15.4 mi
- Mammoth Spring: 18.3 mi
- Un-named Falls: 19.9 mi
- Swatara Falls: 19.9 mi
- Lower Falls: 20.1 mi
- Onoko Falls: 20.1 mi
- Terrace Falls: 20.1 mi
- Peace Rock: 5.3 mi
- Round Head: 19.8 mi
- Gorgeous Rocks: 20.0 mi
- Bear Mountain Overlook: 20.7 mi
- Pinnacle Point: 23.5 mi
- Dunbars Lehigh River Access: 19.5 mi
- Jim Thorpe Lehigh River Access: 19.8 mi
- Glen Onoko Lehigh River Access: 20.0 mi
- Eagle Rock Beach: 21.0 mi
- Walnutport Lehigh River Access: 21.1 mi
- Camp Apple Tree: 17.3 mi
- Food Fest Grove: 23.8 mi
- Carousel Grove: 23.9 mi
- Parkside Pavillion: 23.9 mi
- Centralia: 21.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.5 miles of Hawk Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bears Head | NNW 340° | 634 m | 15.1 mi |
| Blue Head | NNW 342° | 557 m | 16.8 mi |
| Round Head | NNW 344° | 556 m | 17.5 mi |
| Ashland Mountain | WNW 301° | 530 m | 18.1 mi |
| Broad Mountain | NW 318° | 518 m | 12.6 mi |
| Little Sugarloaf Mountain | NNW 342° | 518 m | 21.4 mi |
| Bear Mountain | NE 43° | 506 m | 21.5 mi |
| The Pinnacle | ESE 122° | 498 m | 4.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:08 | 18:40 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:58 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:27 | 19:03 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 15:57 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 31 | 40 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 65 | 53 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hamburg, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357321949
Day trips start here
- Reading · 22 mi
- Whitehall Township · 25 mi
- Emmaus · 26 mi
- Allentown · 27 mi
- Lehigh Valley · 27 mi
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