Mount Passaconaway
Mount Passaconaway rises to 1,225 m in New Hampshire. Mount Osceola stands 1,315 m to the west-northwest, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Square Ledge, a peak 0.9 miles away. Kancamagus Scenic Byway passes 2.8 miles off.
The story
Mount Passaconaway is a 4,043 ft (1,232 m) mountain in the Sandwich Range Wilderness of the White Mountain National Forest in Grafton County, New Hampshire, near Waterville Valley. It is named after Passaconaway, a 16th-century sachem of the Pennacook tribe, whose name was also attached to a small village in Albany, where the northern trailhead is now located. It is ranked 42nd in elevation on the list of 48 White Mountains four-thousand footers. On the original 1931 list of 4000-footers, it was ranked 26th, with an elevation of 4,116 feet (1,255 m), although the 1931 topographic map shows it as 4,060 feet (1,240 m). The 1987 USGS topographic map indicates it is 4,043 feet, while the elevation recorded in the USGS Geographic Names Information System is 4,019 feet (1,225 m). The thickly wooded, unmarked summit may be approached from trailheads to the north (on the Kancamagus Highway) or from Wonalancet to the south. Passaconaway was originally named "North Whiteface" by Arnold Guyot, who probably was the first white person to ascend it. State geologist Charles Henry Hitchcock gave it its present name in honor of Passaconaway, a Pennacook chieftain. Passaconaway's children, Wonalancet and Nanomocomuck, have their names memorialized by the spurs of the mountain.
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Wikidata Q8523440, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1225 m
How to reach it
- 2.8 mi off the Kancamagus Scenic Byway, National
- 3.7 mi off the White Mountain Trail, National
- 8.6 mi off the Presidential Range Tour
- 9.2 mi off the Lakes Region Tour
Overlooks nearby
- Sugar Hill Overlook · 4 mi
- Lily Pond Vista · 6 mi
- Beaver Brook Overlook · 7 mi
- CL Graham Wangan Overlook · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Square Ledge: 0.9 mi
- Hibbard Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Hedgehog Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Mount Whiteface: 1.8 mi
- Mount Wonalancet: 1.9 mi
- The Bowl Research Natural Area: 1.4 mi
- Rich Memorial Forest: 3.3 mi
- Tewksbury Brook Preserve: 4.0 mi
- Mount Chocorua Scenic Area: 5.4 mi
- Mill Brook Preserve: 5.5 mi
- Overhang: 2.1 mi
- Greens Cliff: 5.5 mi
- Greens Cliff: 5.6 mi
- Owl's Cliff: 6.3 mi
- K1 Cliff: 6.5 mi
- Remick Park: 7.9 mi
- Bartlett Village Gazebo Park: 9.9 mi
- Morrell Family Community Complex: 10.1 mi
- Sunshine Park: 10.4 mi
- Sandwich Notch Park: 10.5 mi
- Sabbaday Falls: 2.8 mi
- Champney Falls: 5.1 mi
- Pitcher Falls: 5.1 mi
- Norway Rapids: 5.4 mi
- Fletcher Cascades: 5.6 mi
- Lower Pool: 2.8 mi
- Albany Covered Bridge: 7.8 mi
- Madison Boulder: 10.7 mi
- Attitash Alpine Slide: 11.3 mi
- Nor'Easter Mountain Coaster: 11.6 mi
- Bearcamp Beach: 9.5 mi
- Nichols Beach: 11.5 mi
- Boulder Beach: 12.2 mi
- Geneva Beach: 12.3 mi
- Eidelweiss Beach: 12.6 mi
- Jim Liberty Cabin: 5.5 mi
- Nancy Pfannenstiehl: 6.1 mi
- First Church of Christ Congregational Park: 14.3 mi
- Jimmy Mersereau: 15.6 mi
- Willey House: 15.7 mi
- Hannes Schneider: 15.2 mi
- Frog Rock: 16.8 mi
- Local Boyscout Harold A. Webster Jr.: 20.5 mi
- #20 / Nova: 21.2 mi
- #23 / Red Wing: 21.3 mi
- Curious George Cottage: 6.0 mi
- Sandwich Historical Society: 10.6 mi
- Madison Historical Society and Museum: 12.3 mi
- Salyards Museum: 12.9 mi
- Conway Railroad Museum: 14.2 mi
- Sabbaday Falls Picnic Area: 3.0 mi
- Sawyer Rock Picnic Ground: 8.8 mi
- Campton Day Use Area: 13.5 mi
- Fay Waside Picnic Area: 16.4 mi
- Eisenhower Memorial Area: 19.8 mi
- Elliott Spring: 5.4 mi
- lower falls: 7.9 mi
- Liberty Spring: 17.3 mi
- Crystal Spring: 20.8 mi
- Gulfside Spring: 24.8 mi
- Mary Bierbrier Community Garden: 6.0 mi
- Ken Kasarjian Community Garden: 13.7 mi
- Peace Garden: 20.4 mi
- The Basin, East: 18.8 mi
- The Basin, West: 19.0 mi
- Boise Rock: 20.2 mi
- Livermore: 8.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of Mount Passaconaway. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Osceola | WNW 293° | 1,315 m | 8.4 mi |
| Middle Peak | WNW 293° | 1,280 m | 8.8 mi |
| North Tripyramid | WNW 292° | 1,274 m | 3.3 mi |
| Middle Tripyramid | WNW 283° | 1,262 m | 3.0 mi |
| East Peak | WNW 297° | 1,260 m | 7.8 mi |
| South Tripyramid | W 277° | 1,250 m | 3.0 mi |
| Mount Whiteface | SW 227° | 1,217 m | 1.8 mi |
| Sandwich Mountain | WSW 237° | 1,215 m | 7.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:20 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:04 | 19:48 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:07 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:24 | 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 | 17 | 18 | 27 | 40 | 51 | 61 | 66 | 64 | 57 | 45 | 34 | 24 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 5.6 | 4.5 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Waterville Valley Nepp, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357730531
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