Mount Lincoln
Mount Lincoln rises to 375 m in Massachusetts. Packard Mountain stands 386 m to the north-northeast, 7.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Jackson Farm Conservation Area, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Lost Villages Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.
The story
Mount Lincoln, 1,240 feet (380 m), is a high point on the Pelham Dome or Pelham Hills, an upland plateau overlooking the Connecticut River Valley in Pelham, Massachusetts (near Amherst, Massachusetts). The mountain is mostly wooded, but a fire tower located on the summit provides views of the Holyoke Range and the east-central Pioneer Valley. The summit, located within the University of Massachusetts Amherst's 1,200-acre (490 ha) Cadwell Memorial Forest, is traversed by the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail and is the home of the Five Colleges radio station beacon. The west side of Mount Lincoln drains into Hop Brook and Amethyst Brook, thence into Fort River, the Connecticut River, and Long Island Sound. The east side drains into Jabish Brook, following its course into Belchertown, Massachusetts, where the watershed splits into the Jabish Canal and Jabish Brook. The Jabish Canal flows into Broad Brook, thence into the Chicopee River, the Connecticut River, and Long Island Sound; Jabish Brook flows into the Swift River, the Ware River, thence the Chicopee River, Connecticut River, and Long Island Sound.
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Wikidata Q6921842, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 375 m
How to reach it
- 13.3 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
- 14.8 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
- 20.2 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
- 24.4 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
Overlooks nearby
- Summit House · 9 mi
- Kiwanis Point · 15 mi
- Waterfall · 17 mi
- Overlook · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Jackson Farm Conservation Area: 0.3 mi
- Water Supply Land: 1.0 mi
- Reed Property Conservation Restriction: 1.3 mi
- Pelham Wildlife Sanctuary: 1.5 mi
- Pemberton Memorial Forest: 1.8 mi
- West Hill: 1.5 mi
- Butter Hill: 1.7 mi
- Grey Rocks: 1.9 mi
- Pine Hill: 1.9 mi
- Dodge Hill: 1.9 mi
- Amethyst Brook Labryinth: 3.0 mi
- Classic Car Junkyard: 3.2 mi
- Guy Levy-Despas Monument: 4.9 mi
- Guy Levy-Despas Monument: 4.9 mi
- Wildwood Cemetery Memorial Chapel: 4.9 mi
- Amethyst Conservation Area: 3.5 mi
- East Common: 4.0 mi
- Lake Vale Cemetery: 4.3 mi
- South Amherst Common: 4.4 mi
- Hitchcock Field: 4.7 mi
- War Memorial Pool: 4.8 mi
- Timber Frame: 7.3 mi
- Indian Kitchen: 9.7 mi
- Dead Man's Curve: 9.8 mi
- F-94 Starfire Crash Site: 9.9 mi
- Pelham Historical Society: 2.2 mi
- Beneski Museum of Natural History: 4.7 mi
- Emily Dickinson Museum: 4.7 mi
- Mead Art Museum: 4.7 mi
- Amherst History Museum: 5.1 mi
- Fort River Elementary Gardens: 3.9 mi
- Yushien Japanese Garden: 4.9 mi
- Franklin Permaculture Garden: 5.4 mi
- Fieldstone Courtyard: 5.5 mi
- Class of 1954 Garden: 5.5 mi
- Robert Frost: 4.8 mi
- Quinnipiac: 5.5 mi
- The Power of Creativity Over Concrete: 5.6 mi
- Metawampe: 5.6 mi
- Minuteman Statue: 5.6 mi
- Indian Kitchen: 9.7 mi
- Roaring Falls: 10.1 mi
- Titans Piazza: 10.2 mi
- Pigpen Ledges: 11.9 mi
- Mormon Hollow: 14.2 mi
- Puffers Pond South Beach: 6.0 mi
- Puffers Pond North Beach: 6.1 mi
- Sandy Beach: 9.2 mi
- Rainbow Beach: 10.3 mi
- Haviland Pond Beach: 13.5 mi
- Bear's Den Falls: 13.2 mi
- Hobo Falls: 20.9 mi
- Doane's Falls: 22.6 mi
- Doane's Falls: 22.7 mi
- Spirit Falls: 23.8 mi
- Rd: 16.6 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 16.7 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 16.7 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 17.5 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 24.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.5 miles of Mount Lincoln. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packard Mountain | NNE 28° | 386 m | 7.6 mi |
| Brushy Mountain | NNW 343° | 380 m | 7.9 mi |
| Pine Hill | NNE 31° | 371 m | 1.9 mi |
| Morse Hill | N 353° | 366 m | 9.1 mi |
| East Hill | SE 142° | 338 m | 2.5 mi |
| Mount Norwottock | SW 228° | 337 m | 6.0 mi |
| Prescott Hill | NE 53° | 336 m | 4.7 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | NE 55° | 335 m | 5.2 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 | 07:16 | 15:35 | 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 609176 — Mount Lincoln, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
OpenStreetMap element node/358270561
Day trips start here
- Amherst · 5 mi
- Hadley · 9 mi
- Pioneer Valley · 10 mi
- Northampton · 11 mi
- South Hadley · 11 mi
- Ludlow · 14 mi
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