Mount Hitchcock
Mount Hitchcock rises to 295 m in Massachusetts. Mount Lincoln stands 375 m to the east-northeast, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Holyoke Range Conservation Area, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Route 112 Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.
The story
Mount Hitchcock is a mountain located in South Hadley and Hadley, Massachusetts. It reaches 1,002 feet (305 m) at its peak in South Hadley. The Metacomet-Monadnock Trail runs through it as it does for all the Holyoke Range. To the west is Seven Sisters and Mount Holyoke. To its east is Bare Mountain.
Mount Hitchcock is the second highest peak in South Hadley with Bare Mountain being the highest by 8 feet. On the immediate northern shoulder of Hitchcock lies the highest point in Hadley. For many decades, Mount Hitchcock was thought to be the highest. However, carefully topographical and boundary analysis shows both that the peak of Bare Mountain is within the borders of the town and that it is 8 feet higher. Mount Hitchcock is named after Edward Hitchcock, a former professor of geology at Amherst College. He studied the entire range from a geological and cultural point of view. Once there was a viewing tower on the top of the mountain. It has been taken down. Mount Hitchcock is probably the hardest peak in the Holyoke Range to get to since it is farthest from a road.
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Wikidata Q6921205, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 295 m
How to reach it
- 16.2 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
- 17.1 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
- 19.2 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
- 20.6 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Summit House · 2 mi
- Waterfall · 21 mi
- Kiwanis Point · 22 mi
- Overlook · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Holyoke Range Conservation Area: 0.4 mi
- Lithia Springs: 0.5 mi
- Holyoke Range Conservation Area: 0.8 mi
- Holyoke Range Conservation Area: 0.8 mi
- Stone Hill Conservation Area: 0.8 mi
- Bare Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Devils Garden: 1.0 mi
- Nibble Hill: 1.6 mi
- Mount Norwottock: 1.8 mi
- Mount Holyoke: 2.2 mi
- DonaldCurtis Workshop: 1.7 mi
- Mary Lyon's Grave: 3.7 mi
- Eyrie House: 4.2 mi
- Erie Ruins: 4.2 mi
- Guy Levy-Despas Monument: 4.9 mi
- South Amherst Common: 3.3 mi
- Aldrich Field: 3.5 mi
- Abbey Chapel Green: 3.7 mi
- Skinner Green: 3.8 mi
- Groff Park: 3.9 mi
- Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art: 1.2 mi
- National Yiddish Book Center: 1.4 mi
- Bob Stiles House Museum: 1.7 mi
- Joseph Skinner Museum: 3.3 mi
- Hadley Farm Museum: 3.3 mi
- War Memorial Pool: 5.4 mi
- Holyoke Merry-Go-Round: 7.6 mi
- Timber Frame: 10.5 mi
- World War II Tank: 11.2 mi
- Seymour Planetarium: 14.1 mi
- Community Garden: 1.5 mi
- Hampshire Food Forest: 1.6 mi
- Pick-your-own Fields: 1.9 mi
- Student Garden: 3.9 mi
- Phoenix Garden: 4.1 mi
- Graffiti Wall: 1.4 mi
- C3: 4.6 mi
- Robert Frost: 4.7 mi
- Quinnipiac: 5.8 mi
- The Power of Creativity Over Concrete: 5.8 mi
- Titans Piazza: 2.9 mi
- Indian Leap: 10.5 mi
- Roaring Falls: 12.8 mi
- Pigpen Ledges: 15.7 mi
- Indian Kitchen: 17.0 mi
- Rainbow Beach: 3.1 mi
- Sandy Beach: 3.2 mi
- Puffers Pond South Beach: 7.8 mi
- Puffers Pond North Beach: 7.8 mi
- David Musante Beach: 8.9 mi
- Bear's Den Falls: 19.8 mi
- Goldmine Brook Falls: 19.8 mi
- Glendale Falls: 21.7 mi
- Waterfall: 23.7 mi
- Cascade: 24.8 mi
- Rd: 9.5 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 9.5 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 9.6 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 11.5 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 18.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Mount Hitchcock. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lincoln | ENE 57° | 375 m | 7.4 mi |
| Pine Hill | NE 52° | 371 m | 9.2 mi |
| Mount Tom | SW 230° | 363 m | 6.9 mi |
| East Hill | ENE 75° | 338 m | 8.0 mi |
| Mount Norwottock | E 90° | 337 m | 1.8 mi |
| Deadtop | SW 235° | 333 m | 6.2 mi |
| Juckett Hill | E 82° | 327 m | 8.6 mi |
| West Hill | ENE 68° | 324 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:48 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:36 | 16:21 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 26 | 35 | 46 | 58 | 67 | 72 | 70 | 62 | 50 | 39 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Amherst, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 609020 — Mount Hitchcock, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
OpenStreetMap element node/358270494
Day trips start here
- Hadley · 3 mi
- Pioneer Valley · 3 mi
- Northampton · 4 mi
- South Hadley · 4 mi
- Amherst · 5 mi
- Holyoke · 8 mi
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