Mount Blue
Mount Blue rises to 973 m in Maine. Jackson Mountain stands 1,088 m to the west-northwest, 9.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Blue, a peak 1.3 miles away. RANGELEY LAKES SCENIC BYWAY passes 11 miles off.
The story
Mount Blue is a mountain in Maine, United States. It is a hiking destination with outstanding views from the observation deck of a tower at the summit. Its name is shared with Mount Blue State Park in Weld and Mount Blue High School in Farmington.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q8521228, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 973 m
How to reach it
- 10.7 mi off the Rangeley Lakes Scenic Byway, National
- 18.8 mi off the State Route 27 Scenic Byway
- 27.2 mi off the Grafton Notch Scenic Byway
- 28.1 mi off the Old Canada Road Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Height of Land Scenic Overlook · 20 mi
- Shelton Noyes Scenic Overlook · 23 mi
- Robbins Hill Scenic Area · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Park by the Bridge: 6.7 mi
- Phillips Town Park: 7.4 mi
- Strong Baseball Fields: 7.8 mi
- White Elephant Greens: 8.0 mi
- Strong Veterans Memorial Park: 8.1 mi
- Little Blue: 1.3 mi
- Spruce Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Chandler Hill: 2.2 mi
- Wilder Hill: 2.3 mi
- Phillips Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Chandler Hill Conservation Easement: 2.3 mi
- Hedgehog Hill Conservation Easement: 3.7 mi
- Bald Mountain Lot Public Reserved Land: 5.7 mi
- Strong Wildlife Management Area: 6.5 mi
- Tumbledown Public Reserved Land: 8.0 mi
- Strong Veterans Memorial: 8.1 mi
- Those Who Served Us Obelisk: 10.1 mi
- Honor Roll Monument: 10.1 mi
- Parsons School: 17.6 mi
- Andover Korean War and Vietnam War Memorial: 21.1 mi
- Phillips Historical Society Museum: 6.6 mi
- Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad: 7.1 mi
- State of Maine Ski Museum: 10.2 mi
- Madrid Village Schoolhouse: 11.1 mi
- Red Schoolhouse: 11.4 mi
- Leaf Sculpture: 10.5 mi
- Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox: 16.4 mi
- Gnome Home Roam Village Square: 19.2 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 23.2 mi
- Fisher Man: 23.5 mi
- Smalls falls: 12.4 mi
- Rumford Falls: 16.4 mi
- Angel Falls: 18.4 mi
- Pauls Bluff: 13.8 mi
- Whittemore Bluff: 14.8 mi
- Shagg Crag: 22.3 mi
- UMF Community Garden: 10.5 mi
- Rumford Community Garden: 15.6 mi
- Light of the World Cross: 11.4 mi
- Lexington Historical Society: 22.3 mi
- Smalls Falls: 12.3 mi
- Coos Canyon Rest Area: 14.3 mi
- Mt Zircon Spring: 20.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.3 miles of Mount Blue. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Mountain | WNW 285° | 1,088 m | 9.1 mi |
| Little Jackson Mountain | W 281° | 1,055 m | 9.7 mi |
| Tumbledown Mountain | W 279° | 939 m | 10.3 mi |
| Tumbledown East Peak | W 278° | 921 m | 10.3 mi |
| Blueberry Mountain | WNW 292° | 881 m | 7.3 mi |
| Spruce Mountain | ENE 71° | 784 m | 1.5 mi |
| Saddleback Mountain | S 186° | 784 m | 7.0 mi |
| Hurricane Mountain | NW 308° | 755 m | 2.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:46 | 18:15 | 18:54 |
| June solstice | 04:56 | 19:46 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:29 | 18:02 | 18:41 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:16 | 16:04 |
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 | 16 | 18 | 28 | 41 | 53 | 62 | 67 | 65 | 58 | 46 | 35 | 24 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Farmington, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 562606 — Mount Blue, Franklin County, Maine.
OpenStreetMap element node/358212227
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