Mount O-J-I
Mount O-J-I rises to 1,048 m in Maine. Baxter Peak stands 1,605 m to the east-southeast, 4.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Coe, a peak 0.5 miles away. KATAHDIN WOODS & WATERS SCENIC BYWAY passes 9.8 miles off.
The story
Mount OJI, or O-J-I, is located in Baxter State Park in the U.S. state of Maine, with an elevation of 3419 feet (1042 m). The mountain is named after a rock face which once formed the letters O-J-I, but was mostly destroyed by the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. This is the last in a series of peaks connected to Mount Katahdin and proceeding west from the mountain. On its back side is a large unvisited spruce flat called the Klondike. The elevation of the Klondike is 2900 feet, and it is shaped like a triangle, with O-J-I at its southwestern vertex. Prior to the 1938 hurricane, the shapes of the landslides on O-J-I spelt out OJI. They have become more undistinguished since then. The principal trees are coniferous: white pine and some red pine, balsam fir, red spruce, jack pine and American yew. Deciduous trees include sugar maple, red maple and moose maple (the only nonoriental stripe-barked maple), paper birch and yellow birch, beech, aspens, bayberry, mountain-ash and black ash. Diapensia and several endemics, including sedges, rhodora and tiny willows are found in these mountains. Flowers include Cornus canadensis, Canadian lily and trillium. Wildlife includes deer, moose, bear, lynx, bobcat, raccoon, fishers, porcupine, brook trout and salmon, as well as birds such as gulls, herons, bitterns, terns, horned and barred owls, bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, Cooper's hawks, hawk owls, grouse and partridge, loons and various songbirds, like the Bicknell's thrush.
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Wikidata Q30674420, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1048 m
How to reach it
- 9.8 mi off the KATAHDIN WOODS & WATERS SCENIC BYWAY, National
- 27.0 mi off the MOOSEHEAD LAKE SCENIC BYWAY
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Coe: 0.5 mi
- West Peak: 0.9 mi
- South Brother: 1.3 mi
- Barren Mountain: 1.6 mi
- The Brothers: 2.0 mi
- Katahdin Falls: 2.7 mi
- Ledge Falls: 3.1 mi
- Little Niagara Falls: 4.0 mi
- Big Niagara Falls: 4.2 mi
- Nesowadnehunk Falls: 5.6 mi
- Slide Dam Picnic Area: 1.6 mi
- Foster Field Picnic Area: 2.0 mi
- Ledge Falls Picnic Area: 3.1 mi
- Abol Beach Picnic Area: 7.1 mi
- Rum Brook Picnic Area: 8.8 mi
- Baxter Game Preserve: 5.0 mi
- Whetstone Falls Day Use Area: 19.4 mi
- Swimmin' Hole: 23.3 mi
- Katahdin Pride Park: 23.4 mi
- Hillcrest Park: 24.0 mi
- Appalachian National Scenic Trail: 9.1 mi
- Nahmakanta Public Reserved Land: 16.8 mi
- Wassataquoik Public Reserved Land: 19.1 mi
- Gero Island Public Reserved Land: 20.1 mi
- Marble Fen Nature Preserve: 20.5 mi
- Baxter State Park: 7.6 mi
- Millinocket Veterans Memorial: 24.0 mi
- World Wars Memorial: 24.3 mi
- Little Italy Veterans: 24.4 mi
- Rev Joseph D. Quinn: 24.4 mi
- The Gateway: 3.6 mi
- Table Land: 4.1 mi
- Snub Pitch: 7.8 mi
- Windey Pitch: 8.6 mi
- Chesuncook Lake Boom House: 10.9 mi
- Antique Snowmobile Museum: 22.3 mi
- Millinocket Historical Society: 23.9 mi
- Caribou Spring: 4.0 mi
- Thoreau Spring: 4.3 mi
- Long Beach, Lower Togue Pond, Baxter State Park, Millinocket, Maine, USA: 10.7 mi
- Big Omaha Beach: 11.6 mi
- Pockwockamus Rock: 10.6 mi
- Grindstone Falls Rest Area: 24.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.5 miles of Mount O-J-I. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter Peak | ESE 110° | 1,605 m | 4.8 mi |
| South Peak | ESE 111° | 1,603 m | 5.1 mi |
| Pamola | ESE 106° | 1,495 m | 5.4 mi |
| Chimney Peak | ESE 107° | 1,491 m | 5.4 mi |
| Hamlin Peak | E 93° | 1,446 m | 4.2 mi |
| Howe Peaks | E 85° | 1,416 m | 4.3 mi |
| North Brother | NE 35° | 1,235 m | 2.5 mi |
| South Brother | NNE 30° | 1,208 m | 1.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:40 | 18:09 | 18:49 |
| June solstice | 04:46 | 19:45 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:24 | 17:56 | 18:36 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:04 | 15:54 |
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 | 14 | 16 | 26 | 40 | 53 | 63 | 68 | 67 | 59 | 46 | 35 | 23 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Millinocket, 24 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 572559 — Mount O-J-I, Piscataquis County, Maine.
OpenStreetMap element node/358222491
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