Lightning Mountain
Lightning Mountain rises to 809 m in New Hampshire. Bunnell Mountain stands 1,135 m to the east-northeast, 5.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Teapot Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Connecticut River Byway passes 1.8 miles off.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q34924093, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 809 m
How to reach it
- 1.8 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 10.1 mi off the Moose Path Trail
- 10.4 mi off the Woodland Heritage Trail
- 18.6 mi off the Presidential Range Tour
Overlooks nearby
- Stark Covered Bridge · 13 mi
- Table Rock · 15 mi
- Middle Brother · 15 mi
- Dixville Notch Wildlife Viewing Area · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Teapot Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Goback Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Savage Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Spruce Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Ledge Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Richardson Forest: 2.3 mi
- Vickie Bunnell Preserve: 4.9 mi
- Stratford Town Forest: 6.2 mi
- Bag Hill Town Forest: 9.1 mi
- Blueberry Swamp Division of Silvio O. Conte National Fish & Wildlife Refuge: 9.8 mi
- Riverside Park: 3.2 mi
- Fish Pond Boat Launch Facility: 8.0 mi
- Connecticut River Boat Access: 12.0 mi
- Eames Wayside Area: 12.4 mi
- Beaver Brook Falls State Wayside: 12.5 mi
- Lancaster Fairgrounds: 16.9 mi
- The Yule Log Flume: 23.0 mi
- The Himalaya: 23.0 mi
- Rudolph: 23.0 mi
- play structure: 23.0 mi
- Camp Stark German Prisoner of War Camp: 12.9 mi
- Camp Stark: 13.0 mi
- The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel: 15.0 mi
- Canaan Veterans Memorial: 16.7 mi
- Vermont Major cross-state route: 18.8 mi
- Don Eagle Museum: 14.4 mi
- Island Pond, Historical Society Museum: 15.9 mi
- Lancaster Historical Society: 17.9 mi
- John Wingate Weeks Historic Museum: 21.0 mi
- Pittsburg Historical Society Museum: 22.2 mi
- Pond Brook Falls: 7.4 mi
- Beaver Brook Falls: 12.4 mi
- Crystal Falls: 14.9 mi
- Huntington Cascades: 15.3 mi
- Baby Flume: 15.6 mi
- Campers' Beach: 14.2 mi
- Sandy Beach: 16.1 mi
- South Beach: 22.9 mi
- Southwest Cove Beach: 23.1 mi
- North Beach: 24.8 mi
- Columbia Covered Bridge: 6.8 mi
- Island Pond Covered Footbridge: 16.0 mi
- Mount Orne Covered Bridge: 20.8 mi
- Devils Slide: 12.8 mi
- Bald Hill: 20.5 mi
- Cascade Brook Picnic Area: 15.4 mi
- Flume Brook Picnic Area: 15.6 mi
- Lancaster Community Garden: 18.6 mi
- Hand-On-The-Rock: 24.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of Lightning Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bunnell Mountain | ENE 60° | 1,135 m | 5.0 mi |
| Sugarloaf | E 99° | 1,128 m | 4.9 mi |
| Long Mountain | ESE 120° | 1,120 m | 10.6 mi |
| Long Mountain West Peak | SE 126° | 1,116 m | 10.0 mi |
| Gore Mountain | ENE 76° | 1,101 m | 5.1 mi |
| Muise Mountain | ENE 77° | 1,096 m | 9.5 mi |
| Castle Mountain | E 86° | 1,087 m | 4.3 mi |
| West Peak | E 92° | 1,072 m | 3.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:20 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:01 | 19:51 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:07 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 15:20 | 16:09 |
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 | 14 | 15 | 26 | 40 | 53 | 62 | 67 | 65 | 58 | 45 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — N Stratford, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 868003 — Lightning Mountain, Coos County, New Hampshire.
OpenStreetMap element node/357723303
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