Mount Hancock
Mount Hancock rises to 1,343 m in New Hampshire. South Twin Mountain stands 1,491 m to the north-northwest, 7.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Middle Hancock, a peak 0.6 miles away. White Mountain Trail passes 6.9 miles off.
The story
Mount Hancock is a mountain in Grafton County, New Hampshire, named after John Hancock (1737–1793), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. The mountain is on the south side of the Pemigewasset Wilderness, the source of the Pemigewasset River in the heart of the White Mountains, between Franconia Notch and Crawford Notch. Mount Hancock is flanked to the northeast by Mount Carrigain, to the south by Mount Huntington, and to the west by Mount Hitchcock. Prior to the completion of the Kancamagus Highway, Mount Hancock was one of the most remote, inaccessible peaks in the White Mountains. The Appalachian Mountain Club considers both Mount Hancock and the officially unnamed peak to its south to be "four-thousand footers", because it was previously believed that the south peak had a prominence more than 200 feet (61 m) above the col that adjoins it to the higher north peak. However, the most recent lidar data shows a prominence of only 179 feet (55 m).
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Wikidata Q6921046, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1343 m
How to reach it
- 6.9 mi off the White Mountain Trail, National
- 3.2 mi off the Kancamagus Scenic Byway, National
- 6.9 mi off the Presidential Range Tour
- 10.3 mi off the River Heritage Tour
Overlooks nearby
- Pemigewasset Overlook · 4 mi
- CL Graham Wangan Overlook · 4 mi
- Beaver Brook Overlook · 4 mi
- Lily Pond Vista · 5 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Middle Hancock: 0.6 mi
- South Hancock: 0.8 mi
- Northwest Hancock: 1.0 mi
- Juno Peak: 1.3 mi
- The Captain: 1.5 mi
- K2 Cliff: 4.9 mi
- K1 Cliff: 5.6 mi
- Split Cliff: 5.7 mi
- Greens Cliff: 5.7 mi
- Greens Cliff: 5.7 mi
- Greeley Ponds Scenic Area: 5.1 mi
- Nancy Brook Research Natural Area: 5.5 mi
- Sawyer Pond Scenic Area: 6.2 mi
- Rachel Adams Memorial Forest: 8.9 mi
- Lafayette Brook Scenic Area: 10.0 mi
- Kanc Recreation Area: 8.7 mi
- Cascade Park: 10.2 mi
- Soldiers Park: 10.3 mi
- Bartlett Village Gazebo Park: 10.5 mi
- White Mountain Motorsports Park: 10.8 mi
- Franconia Falls: 4.4 mi
- Upper Nancy Cascades: 5.7 mi
- Middle Nancy Cascades: 5.7 mi
- Lower Nancy Cascades: 5.7 mi
- Thoreau Falls: 6.0 mi
- Lower Pool: 7.8 mi
- Flume Gorge: 8.8 mi
- Table Rock Flume Brook: 9.0 mi
- Liberty Gorge: 9.2 mi
- Flume Gorge & Visitor Center: 9.3 mi
- Curious George Cottage: 9.5 mi
- Americana Museum: 9.9 mi
- Pemigewasset Hook & Ladder: 9.9 mi
- Clark History Museum: 9.9 mi
- Avery's Garage: 9.9 mi
- Willey House: 8.3 mi
- Nancy Pfannenstiehl: 9.2 mi
- Governor Gallen Memorial: 11.7 mi
- Jim Liberty Cabin: 14.3 mi
- Caddy Camp Alumni Memorial: 16.0 mi
- Echo Lake Beach: 11.9 mi
- Bearcamp Beach: 19.5 mi
- Beach Area #1: 19.6 mi
- Beach Area #2: 19.8 mi
- Geneva Beach: 20.4 mi
- Sabbaday Falls Picnic Area: 7.8 mi
- Sawyer Rock Picnic Ground: 8.2 mi
- Fay Waside Picnic Area: 10.0 mi
- Eisenhower Memorial Area: 11.3 mi
- Zealand Picnic Area: 12.6 mi
- Liberty Spring: 8.0 mi
- lower falls: 13.2 mi
- Elliott Spring: 15.0 mi
- Gulfside Spring: 18.0 mi
- Spaulding Spring: 18.1 mi
- Hannes Schneider: 19.1 mi
- Tree Harp: 20.7 mi
- Pollyanna Statue: 20.8 mi
- Sunflowers: 20.8 mi
- Local Boyscout Harold A. Webster Jr.: 24.5 mi
- Mary Bierbrier Community Garden: 9.5 mi
- Ken Kasarjian Community Garden: 23.2 mi
- Peace Garden: 24.3 mi
- The Basin, East: 9.7 mi
- The Basin, West: 9.8 mi
- Boise Rock: 10.4 mi
- Livermore: 5.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.4 miles of Mount Hancock. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Twin Mountain | NNW 337° | 1,491 m | 7.8 mi |
| Mount Bond | NNW 339° | 1,432 m | 5.2 mi |
| Mount Carrigain | ENE 73° | 1,422 m | 2.4 mi |
| Mount Guyot | NNW 341° | 1,396 m | 6.2 mi |
| West Bond | NNW 333° | 1,358 m | 5.5 mi |
| Mount Liberty | WNW 287° | 1,353 m | 7.7 mi |
| Southwest Twin | NNW 331° | 1,328 m | 7.0 mi |
| South Hancock | SSE 156° | 1,316 m | 0.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:20 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:04 | 19:49 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:07 | 18:45 |
| 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, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 872006 — Mount Hancock, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
OpenStreetMap element node/357730099
Day trips start here
- Wentworth · 25 mi
- Center Harbor · 26 mi
- Ashland · 28 mi
- Meredith · 29 mi
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