Mount Orient
Mount Orient rises to 291 m in Massachusetts. Packard Mountain stands 386 m to the northeast, 7.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Heatherstone Brook, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Mohawk Trail - MA passes 13 miles off.
The story
Mount Orient, 955 feet (291 meters), is a south-facing high point on an upland plateau overlooking the Connecticut River Valley in Pelham, Massachusetts (near Amherst, Massachusetts). Although the summit is wooded, a lower, south-facing ledge of exfoliating metamorphic rock provides views of the Holyoke Range and the east-central Pioneer Valley. Both the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail and the Robert Frost Trail (Massachusetts) traverse Mount Orient. The ledge is a popular hiking destination among college students and residents of nearby Amherst. Easiest access is via the Amethyst Brook Conservation Area parking lot on Pelham Road in east Amherst. Mount Orient drains into Heatherstone Brook and Amethyst Brook, thence into Fort River, the Connecticut River, and Long Island Sound.
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Wikidata Q6922603, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 291 m
How to reach it
- 12.7 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
- 13.4 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
- 17.8 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
- 5.3 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Summit House · 9 mi
- Kiwanis Point · 14 mi
- view to west · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Poverty Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Butter Hill: 1.3 mi
- Flat Hills: 2.0 mi
- Grey Rocks: 2.2 mi
- Mount Boreas: 2.5 mi
- Classic Car Junkyard: 1.0 mi
- Amethyst Brook Labryinth: 1.3 mi
- Wildwood Cemetery Memorial Chapel: 2.7 mi
- William Smith Clark Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Guy Levy-Despas Monument: 3.2 mi
- Heatherstone Brook: 0.4 mi
- Buffam Falls Conservation Area: 0.8 mi
- North Valley Conservation Area: 1.1 mi
- Whitney Conservation Area: 1.2 mi
- Amethyst Brook Conservation Area: 1.5 mi
- Amethyst Conservation Area: 1.6 mi
- East Common: 2.4 mi
- Fraternity Park: 2.6 mi
- Cushman Common: 2.8 mi
- Community Field: 2.9 mi
- Pelham Historical Society: 2.9 mi
- Emily Dickinson Museum: 3.0 mi
- Beneski Museum of Natural History: 3.1 mi
- Mead Art Museum: 3.2 mi
- Rausch Mineral Gallery: 3.2 mi
- War Memorial Pool: 2.9 mi
- Timber Frame: 10.1 mi
- Old North Dana Depot: 10.6 mi
- Dead Man's Curve: 11.0 mi
- Indian Kitchen: 11.2 mi
- Fort River Elementary Gardens: 2.2 mi
- Franklin Permaculture Garden: 3.2 mi
- Yushien Japanese Garden: 3.3 mi
- Class of 1954 Garden: 3.4 mi
- Fieldstone Courtyard: 3.4 mi
- Robert Frost: 3.3 mi
- Metawampe: 3.3 mi
- Quinnipiac: 3.3 mi
- Minuteman Statue: 3.4 mi
- The Power of Creativity Over Concrete: 3.4 mi
- Roaring Falls: 7.4 mi
- Pigpen Ledges: 9.5 mi
- Titans Piazza: 9.9 mi
- Indian Kitchen: 11.2 mi
- Mormon Hollow: 12.0 mi
- Puffers Pond South Beach: 3.3 mi
- Puffers Pond North Beach: 3.4 mi
- Sandy Beach: 8.1 mi
- Rainbow Beach: 9.7 mi
- David Musante Beach: 12.9 mi
- Bear's Den Falls: 12.3 mi
- Hobo Falls: 18.8 mi
- Doane's Falls: 22.0 mi
- Spirit Falls: 23.1 mi
- Pulpit Falls: 23.3 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 18.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.4 miles of Mount Orient. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packard Mountain | NE 50° | 386 m | 7.2 mi |
| Mount Toby | NNW 329° | 386 m | 7.6 mi |
| Brushy Mountain | N 355° | 380 m | 5.6 mi |
| Mount Lincoln | SE 136° | 375 m | 2.8 mi |
| Locks Hill | NNE 19° | 372 m | 9.2 mi |
| Pine Hill | E 98° | 371 m | 3.0 mi |
| Morse Hill | N 7° | 366 m | 7.0 mi |
| Roaring Mountain | NNW 332° | 356 m | 7.2 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 | 07:17 | 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, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 609195 — Mount Orient, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
OpenStreetMap element node/358270573
Day trips start here
- Amherst · 3 mi
- Hadley · 7 mi
- Northampton · 10 mi
- Pioneer Valley · 10 mi
- South Hadley · 11 mi
- Deerfield · 13 mi
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