Mount Guyot
Mount Guyot rises to 1,396 m in New Hampshire. Mount Lafayette stands 1,600 m to the west, 5.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Zealand, a peak 1.0 miles away. Presidential Range Tour passes 6.6 miles off.
The story
Mount Guyot is a mountain located in Grafton County, New Hampshire. The mountain is named after Professor Arnold H. Guyot (1807–1884) of Princeton University, and is part of the Twin Range of the White Mountains. Mount Guyot is flanked to the northwest by South Twin Mountain, to the northeast by Mount Zealand, and to the south by Mount Bond. Guyot is on the northern boundary of the Pemigewasset Wilderness. The immediate area around the summit consists of high-altitude spruce-fir forest or krummholz. The north face of Mount Guyot drains into the Little River, thence into the Ammonoosuc and Connecticut rivers, and into Long Island Sound in Connecticut. The southeast face of Guyot drains into Jumping Brook, thence into the North Fork of the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River, thence into the Pemigewasset and Merrimack rivers, and into the Gulf of Maine in Massachusetts. The southwest face of Guyot drains into the Franconia Branch of the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River. The Appalachian Trail, a 2,170-mile (3,500-km) National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine, runs along the ridges from South Twin to Zealand, crossing the summit of Guyot. Although well over 4,000 feet (1,200 m) in height, the Appalachian Mountain Club doesn't consider Mount Guyot a "four-thousand footer" because federal topographic maps show the summit of Guyot as rising less than 200 feet (60 m) above the col separating it from Mount Bond. More recent lidar data sets, however, show the summit rising 220 feet (67 m) above the col.
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Wikidata Q1950503, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1396 m
How to reach it
- 6.6 mi off the Presidential Range Tour
- 6.5 mi off the White Mountain Trail, National
- 7.7 mi off the Kancamagus Scenic Byway, National
- 12.1 mi off the River Heritage Tour
Overlooks nearby
- Willey Brook Bridge Overlook · 6 mi
- Scenic Vista · 7 mi
- Silver Cascade · 7 mi
- Elephant Head · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Zealand: 1.0 mi
- West Bond: 1.0 mi
- Mount Bond: 1.1 mi
- Southwest Twin: 1.4 mi
- South Twin Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Zeacliff: 2.2 mi
- Shining Rock Cliff: 6.2 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 6.8 mi
- Elephant Head: 7.1 mi
- Bugle Cliff: 7.2 mi
- Lafayette Brook Scenic Area: 6.0 mi
- Profile Recreational Trail: 7.7 mi
- Ammonoosuc River Forest: 7.8 mi
- Nancy Brook Research Natural Area: 7.9 mi
- Gibbs Brook Scenic Area: 8.5 mi
- Zealand Falls: 2.7 mi
- Thoreau Falls: 3.0 mi
- Thirteen Falls: 3.1 mi
- Franconia Falls: 4.8 mi
- Cloudland Falls: 6.8 mi
- Franconia Notch State Park: 8.0 mi
- Twin Mountain Fish Hatchery: 9.6 mi
- Kanc Recreation Area: 10.2 mi
- Bethlehem Town Park and Playground: 10.9 mi
- Fox Hill Park: 10.9 mi
- Cog Railway Display: 7.2 mi
- Boise Rock: 7.2 mi
- The Basin: 8.1 mi
- Flume Gorge: 8.2 mi
- Liberty Gorge: 8.3 mi
- Beaver Brook Recreation Area: 6.8 mi
- Zealand Picnic Area: 6.9 mi
- Eisenhower Memorial Area: 7.3 mi
- Mount Cleveland Picnic Area: 7.8 mi
- Fay Waside Picnic Area: 11.5 mi
- Old Man of the Mountain Museum: 7.4 mi
- New England Ski Museum: 7.7 mi
- Franconia Heritage Museum: 11.0 mi
- Avery's Garage: 11.2 mi
- Americana Museum: 11.2 mi
- Willey House: 6.8 mi
- Governor Gallen Memorial: 7.6 mi
- Caddy Camp Alumni Memorial: 10.0 mi
- Nancy Pfannenstiehl: 15.2 mi
- Jarhead Motorcycle Memorial: 15.6 mi
- Liberty Spring: 6.6 mi
- Gulfside Spring: 14.7 mi
- Spaulding Spring: 14.8 mi
- Peabody Spring: 15.5 mi
- lower falls: 17.8 mi
- Boise Rock: 7.2 mi
- The Basin, West: 8.0 mi
- The Basin, East: 8.0 mi
- Littleton Rest Area: 20.0 mi
- Vermont Welcome Center: 22.4 mi
- Tree Harp: 15.2 mi
- Pollyanna Statue: 15.3 mi
- Sunflowers: 15.3 mi
- Hannes Schneider: 22.4 mi
- Echo Lake Beach: 8.0 mi
- Beach Area #1: 23.8 mi
- Beach Area #2: 24.1 mi
- Mary Bierbrier Community Garden: 15.4 mi
- Lancaster Community Garden: 22.1 mi
- Livermore: 10.1 mi
- Mount Orne Covered Bridge: 21.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.6 miles of Mount Guyot. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lafayette | W 265° | 1,600 m | 5.5 mi |
| Mount Lincoln | WSW 256° | 1,551.12 m | 5.6 mi |
| North Lincoln | W 260° | 1,524 m | 5.5 mi |
| North Lafayette | W 269° | 1,519 m | 5.5 mi |
| South Twin Mountain | NW 322° | 1,491 m | 1.7 mi |
| North Twin Mountain | NNW 333° | 1,452 m | 2.7 mi |
| Little Haystack Mountain | WSW 251° | 1,440 m | 5.9 mi |
| Mount Bond | S 173° | 1,432 m | 1.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:20 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:03 | 19:50 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:07 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:23 | 16:11 |
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 | 18 | 20 | 29 | 42 | 54 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 59 | 47 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 5.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 5.4 | 4.7 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lincoln Nepp, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357730093
Day trips start here
- Wentworth · 28 mi
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