Little Round Top
Little Round Top rises to 200 m in Pennsylvania. Snowy Mountain stands 637 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is US HQ 5-1-3rd Brigade Strong Vincent+ / Rice, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway passes 0.9 miles off.
The story
Little Round Top is the smaller of two rocky hills south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—the companion to the adjacent, taller hill named Big Round Top. It was the site of an unsuccessful assault by Confederate troops against the Union left flank on July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, during the American Civil War. Little Round Top was successfully defended by a brigade under Colonel Strong Vincent, who was mortally wounded during the fighting and died five days later. The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, fought its most famous engagement there, culminating in a dramatic downhill bayonet charge. The battle at Little Round Top subsequently became one of the most well-known actions at Gettysburg, and of the entire war.
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Wikidata Q953597, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 200 m
How to reach it
- 0.9 mi off the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway, National
- 7.1 mi off the Old Main Streets
- 17.0 mi off the Mason and Dixon Byway
- 22.8 mi off the Falls Road
Overlooks nearby
- CS Sharpshooter's position · 1 mi
- Chimney Rock · 15 mi
- Middletown Overlook · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- US HQ 5-1-3rd Brigade Strong Vincent+ / Rice: 0.1 mi
- 5th US Artillery “Hazlett’s Battery D” Hazlett+/ Rittenhouse: 0.1 mi
- 44th NY Rice / Conner & 12th NY Ryder: 0.1 mi
- 140th NY Patrick O'Rorke+ / Ernst: 0.1 mi
- US Stephen Weed+ & Charles Hazlett+: 0.1 mi
- Big Round Top: 0.4 mi
- Powers Hill: 1.3 mi
- Sheep Heaven: 1.9 mi
- Culps Hill: 2.1 mi
- Cemetery Hill: 2.1 mi
- Gettysburg Recreational Park: 2.3 mi
- West Fields: 3.3 mi
- Gettysburg Municipal Authority: 3.4 mi
- Straban Township Park: 4.8 mi
- Norm Weaver Memorial Park: 5.7 mi
- Gettysburg Museum: 1.5 mi
- Ford Motor Company Fund Education Center: 1.5 mi
- Lincoln Train Museum: 1.9 mi
- Gettysburg Heritage Center: 2.0 mi
- Battlefield Military Museum: 2.0 mi
- Spangler's Spring: 1.9 mi
- Menchey’s Spring: 2.1 mi
- Katelysine Spring: 3.4 mi
- Koontz Spring: 8.3 mi
- Fountaindale Spring: 9.6 mi
- Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg: 1.5 mi
- Women's Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Return visit: 2.7 mi
- Fr. John Dubois: 9.8 mi
- St. Francis: 9.8 mi
- Caledonia State Park: 15.3 mi
- Frank Bentz Pond Fish Management Area: 15.5 mi
- Spiegle Cooperative Wildlife Management Area: 15.8 mi
- Union Mills Reservoir Area: 15.9 mi
- Hahn Cooperative Wildlife Management Area: 16.0 mi
- Picnic Area: 1.0 mi
- Picnic Area: 1.6 mi
- Founder's Plaza: 9.8 mi
- Chestnut Picnic Area: 16.2 mi
- Owens Creek Picnic Area: 16.4 mi
- John Eisenhower Bridge: 1.8 mi
- Sachs Covered Bridge: 2.2 mi
- Pumpkin Cannon: 15.9 mi
- Catoctin Furnace: 17.9 mi
- Walkersville Southern Railroad: 22.1 mi
- Filbert/Diller Corner Garden: 12.6 mi
- 9-11 Memorial Garden: 16.7 mi
- Cameron-Masland Mansion Garden: 21.0 mi
- Peace Garden: 23.6 mi
- Shippensburg University Campus Farm: 23.8 mi
- Tartown: 11.7 mi
- Harmony Grove: 24.9 mi
- Sachs Covered Bridge: 2.2 mi
- Mason-Dixon Welcome Center: 7.1 mi
- Clermont Crag: 13.8 mi
- Beach Front: 14.8 mi
- Cunningham Falls: 16.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.1 miles of Little Round Top. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snowy Mountain | WNW 282° | 637 m | 14.1 mi |
| Buzzard Peak | W 279° | 593 m | 12.6 mi |
| The Knob | WNW 291° | 573 m | 11.9 mi |
| Virginia Rock | W 264° | 545 m | 12.2 mi |
| Mount Newman | WNW 302° | 544 m | 12.5 mi |
| Chimney Rocks | W 278° | 535 m | 12.6 mi |
| Wildcat Rocks | W 260° | 533 m | 12.6 mi |
| Briar Mountain | W 276° | 533 m | 13.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:45 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 20:01 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 16:05 | 16:48 |
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 | 30 | 33 | 41 | 52 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Eisenhower NHS, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1192818 — Little Round Top, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
OpenStreetMap element node/6683539569
Day trips start here
- Gettysburg · 3 mi
- Hanover · 13 mi
- Thurmont · 14 mi
- Catoctin Mountain Park · 16 mi
- Westminster · 19 mi
- Frederick County · 24 mi
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