Mount Hor
Mount Hor rises to 810 m in Vermont. Bald Mountain stands 1,010 m to the northeast, 4.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Bartlett Mountain, a peak 0.9 miles away. Connecticut River Byway passes 19 miles off.
The story
Mount Hor is a mountain in Sutton, Vermont. It is part of the Northeastern Highlands of Vermont. It is located on the west side of Lake Willoughby and constitutes the west side of "Willoughby Notch" ("Willoughby Gap"). There are hiking trails in Willoughby State Forest. Mount Hor is the subject of a poem by Robert Frost. "The Mountain" appears in Frost's second book of poetry, North of Boston (1914).
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Wikidata Q6921318, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 810 m
How to reach it
- 19.0 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 20.4 mi off the Chemin des Cantons, National
- 25.6 mi off the Woodland Heritage Trail
- 28.4 mi off the Presidential Range Tour
Overlooks nearby
- Angel Dog Overlook · 20 mi
- North Overlook · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Bartlett Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Mount Pisgah: 1.6 mi
- Moose Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Norris Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Wheeler Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Memorial Park: 4.0 mi
- Darling Memorial Park: 10.1 mi
- Brighton State Park Day Use Area: 10.8 mi
- Fairground: 12.0 mi
- Powers Park: 12.3 mi
- Westmore Town Forest: 3.6 mi
- Westmore Town Forest: 3.8 mi
- Perry Holbrook Memorial State Park: 5.4 mi
- Sentinel Rock State Park: 5.5 mi
- Derby Town Forest: 12.0 mi
- Bread and Puppet Museum: 6.4 mi
- Glover Historical Society Museum: 6.6 mi
- The Museum of Everyday Life: 9.0 mi
- Old Stone House Museum: 10.1 mi
- Island Pond, Historical Society Museum: 10.9 mi
- Kingdom Trails Nordic Adventure Center: 10.4 mi
- Great Vermont Corn Maze: 14.9 mi
- Circus Smirkus World Headquarters: 15.4 mi
- Walden Mountain Alpaca Farm: 16.8 mi
- Farmer's Daughter: 20.0 mi
- Southwest Cove Beach: 1.0 mi
- South Beach: 1.1 mi
- North Beach: 4.7 mi
- Campers' Beach: 11.4 mi
- ROL Camp Beach: 14.1 mi
- Crystal Lake State Park: 6.1 mi
- Bayley-Hazen Military Road Monument: 16.6 mi
- War Memorial: 16.7 mi
- Stephen Huneck’s Gallery, Dog Mountain: 19.5 mi
- Civil War monument: 24.9 mi
- Island Pond Covered Footbridge: 11.0 mi
- Lord's Creek Covered Bridge: 12.7 mi
- School House Covered Bridge: 13.8 mi
- Runaway Pond: 9.6 mi
- Lake Memphremagog Buffers: 20.4 mi
- Bald Hill: 4.8 mi
- Cheever Falls: 18.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.3 miles of Mount Hor. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Mountain | NE 41° | 1,010 m | 4.9 mi |
| Goodwin Mountain | NNE 28° | 852 m | 4.7 mi |
| Mount Pisgah | NE 44° | 849 m | 1.6 mi |
| Haystack Mountain | NE 47° | 845 m | 3.4 mi |
| Job Mountain | NE 53° | 845 m | 5.5 mi |
| Bull Mountain | E 83° | 833 m | 10.6 mi |
| Starr Mountain | ESE 102° | 775 m | 11.2 mi |
| McSherry Mountain | ENE 59° | 738 m | 3.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:22 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:03 | 19:53 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:09 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 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 | 11 | 13 | 23 | 37 | 50 | 59 | 64 | 62 | 54 | 42 | 31 | 19 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sutton 2NE, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1457891 — Mount Hor, Caledonia County, Vermont.
OpenStreetMap element node/356553589
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