Mount Cresson
Mount Cresson rises to 248 m in New Hampshire. Little Monadnock Mountain stands 571 m to the south-southeast, 8.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Cresson Conservation Area, a nature reserve less than a tenth of a mile away. Connecticut River Byway passes 8.5 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34880865, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 248 m
How to reach it
- 8.5 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 14.0 mi off the Molly Stark Scenic Byway
- 20.7 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
- 24.4 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Beal's Knob Vista · 6 mi
- Hubbard Hill Vista · 9 mi
- Dort Knob Vista · 10 mi
- stone post view · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Caesar Trails: 1.5 mi
- Keene Forestry Park: 1.5 mi
- Shadow Lake Park: 1.6 mi
- Hickey-Desilets Pocket Park: 2.3 mi
- Butterfly Park: 2.4 mi
- Mount Cresson Conservation Area: 0.0 mi
- Dickinson Memorial Forest: 1.8 mi
- Muster Field: 1.9 mi
- Horatio Colony Nature Preserve: 2.7 mi
- Beech Hill Preserve: 2.8 mi
- Mount Caesar: 1.7 mi
- Mount Huggins: 2.1 mi
- Marcy Hill: 2.4 mi
- Forbush Hill: 2.6 mi
- West Hill: 2.6 mi
- Oya Hill: 2.3 mi
- Gravity Foundation Monument: 2.3 mi
- Keene Soldier's Monument: 2.8 mi
- Troy Civil War Memorial: 7.0 mi
- Troy's Hero Memorial: 7.0 mi
- Bruder House Museum: 2.2 mi
- Wyman Tavern Museum: 2.2 mi
- Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: 2.2 mi
- Cheshire County Historical Society: 2.4 mi
- Horatio Colony Museum: 2.5 mi
- Troy Cliffs: 5.7 mi
- Mine Ledge: 8.0 mi
- Black Precipice: 9.3 mi
- Billings Fold: 9.3 mi
- Jacob Hill: 14.3 mi
- Richmond Town Beach at Cass Pond: 10.3 mi
- Sunset Beach: 10.5 mi
- Ranger Beach: 11.9 mi
- Sandy Beach: 13.0 mi
- Fitzwilliam Town Beach on Laurel Lake: 13.1 mi
- Reaching: 2.2 mi
- Aurora: 2.3 mi
- Trinity Bicycle Shop: 2.6 mi
- Jennie B. Powers: 2.6 mi
- Pizza Wings: 2.7 mi
- Falls Brook Falls: 6.1 mi
- Old Mill Falls: 10.2 mi
- Royalston Falls: 12.5 mi
- Pulpit Falls: 12.9 mi
- Spirit Falls: 16.1 mi
- Parrish Shoes Sign (Jumanji): 2.8 mi
- Stone Bridge: 12.1 mi
- Hermit's Castle: 20.6 mi
- Path Continues: 21.9 mi
- Nutting Ledges: 23.6 mi
- Noahs Ark: 11.4 mi
- John Pierce Garden: 11.5 mi
- Washington Community Garden: 21.8 mi
- Phillipston Community Garden: 22.0 mi
- Just Roots Community Garden: 24.0 mi
- Creamery Covered Bridge: 15.4 mi
- Hall Bridge: 19.6 mi
- Green River Covered Bridge: 20.9 mi
- Scott Covered Bridge: 23.3 mi
- Victorian Village Covered Bridge: 23.6 mi
- Wright Grove: 8.1 mi
- Newhall Recreation Area: 20.1 mi
- Falcon Spring: 10.2 mi
- (seasonal): 24.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.0 miles of Mount Cresson. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Monadnock Mountain | SSE 150° | 571 m | 8.3 mi |
| Gap Mountain - North Peak | ESE 124° | 561 m | 9.0 mi |
| Spaulding Hill | E 84° | 484 m | 7.5 mi |
| Sunset Hill | E 88° | 482 m | 7.7 mi |
| Parker Hill | ENE 57° | 481 m | 7.2 mi |
| Thunder Hill | NE 52° | 477 m | 8.3 mi |
| Bassett Hill | NE 48° | 472 m | 6.7 mi |
| Bigelow Hill | ESE 115° | 472 m | 7.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:11 | 19:49 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:11 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:32 | 16:18 |
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 | 20 | 23 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 69 | 68 | 60 | 48 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Keene, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357719537
Day trips start here
- Swanzey · 2 mi
- Brattleboro · 14 mi
- Rindge · 17 mi
- Gardner · 26 mi
- Gill · 26 mi
- Greenfield · 26 mi
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