Mount Ellen
Mount Ellen rises to 1,234 m in Vermont. Camels Hump stands 1,243 m to the north, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Cutts Peak, a peak 0.4 miles away. Mad River Byway passes 3.0 miles off.
The story
Mount Ellen is a mountain in the Green Mountains in the U.S. state of Vermont. Located at the northern edge of the Green Mountain National Forest in Washington County, the summit of Mount Ellen is in the northwest corner of Warren but the mountain extends into Fayston to the north and Lincoln to the west. Together with Lincoln Peak to the south, the slopes of Mount Ellen are home to the Sugarbush Resort. Mount Ellen is one of a handful of 4,000-foot (1,200 m) peaks in Vermont. At 4,083 feet (1,244 m), it is tied (with Camel's Hump) for the third-highest mountain in the state.
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Wikidata Q3321816, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,234 m
How to reach it
- 3.0 mi off the Mad River Byway
- 16.6 mi off the Lake Champlain Byway - Vermont
- 23.3 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
- 27.4 mi off the Scenic Route 100 Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Pine Brook Covered Bridge · 7 mi
- C Nature area · 26 mi
- Winooski River Walk · 26 mi
- Granite Steps · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cutts Peak: 0.4 mi
- Stark Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Nancy Hanks Peak: 1.9 mi
- Lincoln Peak: 2.3 mi
- Little Abe: 2.4 mi
- Mad River Green: 4.8 mi
- Eagle Park: 5.8 mi
- Lord's Prayer Rock: 7.2 mi
- Winona Recreation Area: 8.0 mi
- Sycamore Park: 9.3 mi
- Tower 5: 2.8 mi
- Sunset Ledge: 5.0 mi
- Bristol Ledge: 7.1 mi
- Marble Ledge: 12.9 mi
- Dog Team Falls: 13.8 mi
- Camels Hump State Forest: 2.2 mi
- Huntington Gap Wildlife Manangement Area: 5.1 mi
- Starksboro Town Forest: 5.9 mi
- Deer Leap Natural Area: 6.6 mi
- Raven Ridge Natural Area: 13.4 mi
- B-24J bomber crash memorial plaque: 11.5 mi
- Grave of Timothy Clark Smith: 11.8 mi
- Statue of Capt. Alden Partridge: 13.4 mi
- Robert Frost Summer Home: 14.0 mi
- Veteran's Memorial: 15.4 mi
- Stony Brook Covered Bridge: 12.2 mi
- Audubon Vermont: 13.3 mi
- Upper Cox Brook Covered Bridge: 13.6 mi
- Slaughterhouse Covered Bridge: 13.6 mi
- Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge: 13.7 mi
- Mural of Cosmic Geometry: 16.0 mi
- King Kong: 16.0 mi
- Youbie Obie: 16.0 mi
- Two Open Rectangles, Excentric, Variation VI: 16.0 mi
- Smog: 16.1 mi
- Madsonian Museum of Industrial Design: 5.6 mi
- Sullivan Museum & History Center: 13.4 mi
- Norwich University Museum: 13.4 mi
- Birds of Vermont Museum: 13.8 mi
- Sheldon Museum: 15.7 mi
- Warren Falls: 5.5 mi
- Bartlett Falls: 6.3 mi
- Moss Glen Falls: 10.6 mi
- Abbey Pond Cascades (lower): 11.7 mi
- Abbey Pond Cascades (upper): 11.7 mi
- Middlebury Community Garden: 16.2 mi
- Finney Crossing Apartments Community Garden: 22.1 mi
- Williston Community Garden: 22.4 mi
- South Burlington Community Gardens: 23.0 mi
- Formal Garden: 23.8 mi
- Warren Covered Bridge: 4.9 mi
- Big Eddy Covered Bridge: 5.6 mi
- Pulp Mill Covered Bridge: 15.5 mi
- Shelburne Museum Covered Bridge: 21.1 mi
- Holmes Creek Covered Bridge: 21.2 mi
- Accès rivière: 14.7 mi
- Lions Club Picnic Area: 19.9 mi
- Shady Rill Picnic Area: 21.1 mi
- Finney Crossing Grills and Picnic Tables: 22.0 mi
- Robert Frost Wayside: 14.5 mi
- Rest Area I-89 (South Bound): 20.4 mi
- Rest Area I-89 (North Bound): 20.5 mi
- Punch Bowl swimming hole: 4.4 mi
- Shelburne Beach: 21.8 mi
- Lucky Seven: 11.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.5 miles of Mount Ellen. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camels Hump | N 11° | 1,243 m | 11.2 mi |
| Mount Abraham | S 188° | 1,223 m | 2.8 mi |
| Lincoln Peak | S 179° | 1,212 m | 2.3 mi |
| Cutts Peak | S 174° | 1,198 m | 0.4 mi |
| Little Abe | S 180° | 1,189 m | 2.4 mi |
| Bread Loaf Mountain | S 183° | 1,165 m | 10.9 mi |
| Nancy Hanks Peak | S 180° | 1,158 m | 1.9 mi |
| Mount Wilson | S 179° | 1,147 m | 10.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:26 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:09 | 19:55 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 15:29 | 16:17 |
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 | 26 | 39 | 52 | 60 | 65 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 34 | 23 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 4.1 | 5.1 | 3.7 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — S Lincoln, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/617954174
Day trips start here
- Waitsfield · 6 mi
- Hinesburg · 14 mi
- Middlebury · 15 mi
- Richmond · 17 mi
- Bolton Valley · 18 mi
- Charlotte · 19 mi
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