Long Mountain
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Long Mountain rises to 241 m in Massachusetts. Mount Lincoln stands 375 m to the northeast, 5.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Holyoke Range Conservation Area, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Lost Villages Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off.
The story
Long Mountain, 920 feet (280 m) feet above sea level, is a traprock mountain of the Holyoke Range, part of the greater Metacomet Ridge which stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border. The mountain rises steeply from the surrounding landscape 600 feet (180 m) below and consists of five distinct peaks, from east to west: 685 feet (209 m), 775 feet (236 m), 795 feet (242 m), 920 feet (280 m), the high point, and the eastern summit, 906 feet (276 m). It is located within the towns of Amherst and Granby, Massachusetts. The 110-mile (180 km) Metacomet-Monadnock Trail and the 47-mile (76 km) Robert Frost Trail traverse the mountain. The Holyoke Range continues to the west as Mount Norwottuck and to the east as Harris Mountain.
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Wikidata Q3259043, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 241 m
How to reach it
- 18.3 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
- 19.1 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
- 18.8 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
- 20.3 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
Overlooks nearby
- Summit House · 6 mi
- Kiwanis Point · 20 mi
- view to west · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Norwottock: 1.6 mi
- Mount Pollux: 2.0 mi
- Devils Garden: 2.4 mi
- Pond Hill: 2.6 mi
- Bare Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Lake Vale Cemetery: 2.2 mi
- South Amherst Common: 2.8 mi
- Austin Gaughan Memorial Field: 3.4 mi
- Aldrich Field: 3.6 mi
- Foley Field: 3.9 mi
- DonaldCurtis Workshop: 2.5 mi
- Guy Levy-Despas Monument: 5.1 mi
- Amethyst Brook Labryinth: 5.1 mi
- Classic Car Junkyard: 5.5 mi
- Mary Lyon's Grave: 5.9 mi
- National Yiddish Book Center: 2.7 mi
- Bob Stiles House Museum: 2.7 mi
- Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art: 2.9 mi
- Belchertown Firefighter's Museum: 4.2 mi
- Stone House Museum: 4.5 mi
- Mount Holyoke Range Conservation Area: 0.2 mi
- Fortier Conservation Area: 0.6 mi
- Brace Conservation Restriction: 0.6 mi
- Mount Holyoke Range State Park: 0.6 mi
- Water Supply Land: 0.8 mi
- Pick-your-own Fields: 3.0 mi
- Hampshire Food Forest: 3.1 mi
- Yushien Japanese Garden: 4.8 mi
- Fort River Elementary Gardens: 4.9 mi
- Student Garden: 5.9 mi
- Graffiti Wall: 3.0 mi
- Robert Frost: 4.8 mi
- Quinnipiac: 6.1 mi
- The Power of Creativity Over Concrete: 6.2 mi
- Minuteman Statue: 6.3 mi
- War Memorial Pool: 5.4 mi
- Timber Frame: 7.3 mi
- Holyoke Merry-Go-Round: 9.5 mi
- World War II Tank: 12.3 mi
- SSG 102: 12.9 mi
- Titans Piazza: 6.1 mi
- Indian Leap: 10.0 mi
- Roaring Falls: 12.9 mi
- Indian Kitchen: 14.1 mi
- Pigpen Ledges: 15.4 mi
- Sandy Beach: 6.2 mi
- Rainbow Beach: 6.5 mi
- Puffers Pond South Beach: 7.9 mi
- Puffers Pond North Beach: 8.0 mi
- Haviland Pond Beach: 9.2 mi
- Bear's Den Falls: 18.1 mi
- Goldmine Brook Falls: 23.1 mi
- Hobo Falls: 25.0 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 12.6 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 19.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.3 miles of Long Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lincoln | NE 36° | 375 m | 5.0 mi |
| Pine Hill | NE 35° | 371 m | 6.9 mi |
| Mount Tom | WSW 243° | 363 m | 9.7 mi |
| East Hill | ENE 65° | 338 m | 4.9 mi |
| Mount Norwottock | W 269° | 337 m | 1.6 mi |
| Prescott Hill | NE 44° | 336 m | 9.5 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | NE 46° | 335 m | 10.1 mi |
| Deadtop | WSW 247° | 333 m | 9.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:48 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:36 | 16:21 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 26 | 35 | 46 | 58 | 67 | 72 | 70 | 62 | 50 | 39 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Amherst, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 609180 — Long Mountain, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
OpenStreetMap element node/358270566
Day trips start here
- Amherst · 6 mi
- Hadley · 6 mi
- Pioneer Valley · 6 mi
- South Hadley · 6 mi
- Northampton · 8 mi
- Holyoke · 10 mi
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