Mount Watatic
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Mount Watatic rises to 555 m in Massachusetts. Burton Peak stands 605 m to the north, 8.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Nutting Ledges, a attraction 0.6 miles away. Lost Villages Scenic Byway passes 21 miles off.
The story
Mount Watatic is a 1,832-foot (558 m) monadnock located just south of the Massachusetts–New Hampshire border, in the United States, at the southern end of the Wapack Range. It lies in Ashburnham, Massachusetts and Ashby, Massachusetts. The 22-mile (35 km) Wapack Trail and the 92-mile (148 km) Midstate Trail both cross the mountain. The name is probably a corruption of the Native American term Wetu-tick, "wigwam brook", and probably applied first to the nearby large stream and thereafter to the mountain and the pond. The east and south side of the mountain drains into the Souhegan River watershed, to the Merrimack River thence the Atlantic Ocean; the west and north sides drain into the Millers River watershed, to the Connecticut River, thence into Long Island Sound. Mount Watatic was the site of a ski area that operated from the 1930s until 1984. An attempt to reopen the ski area in 1988 failed. Mount Watatic was also once home to state fire tower #31 that looked out over central Massachusetts, until its removal in 1996. Phone lines to the tower ran up the Ashby and Ashburnham sides of the mountain over the years.
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Wikidata Q8521571, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 555 m
How to reach it
- 20.8 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
- 21.5 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
- 21.8 mi off the General John Stark Scenic Byway
- 25.9 mi off the The Apple Way of Londonderry
Overlooks nearby
- Kiwanis Point · 24 mi
- Overlook · 28 mi
- Waterfall · 29 mi
- Beal's Knob Vista · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Nutting Hill: 0.7 mi
- Fisher Hill: 1.2 mi
- Emerson Hill: 1.4 mi
- Little Watatic Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Swallow Hill: 1.9 mi
- Morrison Conservation Land: 1.7 mi
- Binney Pond Natural Area: 2.3 mi
- Nottingham Property: 2.6 mi
- Kirby Conservation Area, North Country Land Trust (NCLT): 2.7 mi
- Susan Bon Whittemore Hill Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Schoolboy of 1850: 4.3 mi
- Clyde II: 8.2 mi
- CAVA: 11.3 mi
- Prima Del Bacio (Before The Kiss): 11.3 mi
- Windows Into Big Bear Mountain: 11.4 mi
- Bickford Field: 4.5 mi
- Memorial Park: 4.8 mi
- Wellington Park: 5.4 mi
- Wellington Park: 5.5 mi
- Taft Memorial Field: 6.2 mi
- Old Winchendon Pump House Site: 7.0 mi
- New England Glassworks: 7.0 mi
- Old Centre Burial Ground Bicentennial Plaque: 7.7 mi
- Site of First Winchendon Church: 7.9 mi
- Fitchburg Creamery: 8.0 mi
- Ashby Historical Society: 3.9 mi
- Frederick Historic Piano Collection: 4.3 mi
- Rindge Historcal Museum: 6.9 mi
- Winchendon Historical Society: 8.1 mi
- Fitchburg Art Museum: 8.8 mi
- Nutting Ledges: 0.6 mi
- Barrett House: 4.3 mi
- Barrett House: 4.4 mi
- Painted Rock: 8.9 mi
- Bicentennial Giant Chair: 9.5 mi
- Sundial Community Garden: 8.8 mi
- Prichard Street Community Garden: 8.9 mi
- St. Paul's Community Garden: 9.6 mi
- Maple Hill Gardens: 14.6 mi
- Phillipston Community Garden: 14.7 mi
- Ripple Beach Cove: 4.0 mi
- Holiday Cove: 4.4 mi
- Jowder's Cove Beach: 8.8 mi
- Crocker Pond Beach: 8.9 mi
- Contoocook Lake Public Beach: 9.0 mi
- Trap Falls: 6.1 mi
- Emerson Falls: 10.2 mi
- Cascades: 10.8 mi
- Bonner Falls: 14.0 mi
- The Falls: 14.1 mi
- Ice Fall (in winter): 14.1 mi
- Ice Fall: 14.2 mi
- Black Precipice: 15.7 mi
- Jacob Hill: 15.8 mi
- Billings Fold: 15.8 mi
- The Ashburnham Spring: 3.8 mi
- Falcon Spring: 14.9 mi
- River Road Spring: 22.7 mi
- Trap Falls: 6.2 mi
- Picnic Area: 16.1 mi
- Newhall Recreation Area: 22.2 mi
- Johnny Appleseed Visitor Information Center: 15.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of Mount Watatic. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burton Peak | N 0° | 605 m | 8.2 mi |
| New Ipswich Mountain | NNW 340° | 563 m | 3.6 mi |
| Barrett Mountain | NNW 346° | 561 m | 4.7 mi |
| Pratt Mountain | NNW 332° | 551 m | 2.8 mi |
| Kidder Mountain | N 5° | 549 m | 6.0 mi |
| Stony Top | NNW 335° | 531 m | 3.2 mi |
| Wildcat Hill | N 2° | 529 m | 6.1 mi |
| Nutting Hill | NNW 330° | 491 m | 0.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:23 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:10 | 19:47 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:10 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:32 | 16:17 |
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 | 21 | 23 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 69 | 67 | 60 | 48 | 38 | 27 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 3.8 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ashburnham N, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 610166 — Mount Watatic, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
OpenStreetMap element node/358271262
Day trips start here
- Rindge · 7 mi
- Fitchburg · 9 mi
- Gardner · 10 mi
- Ashburnham · 11 mi
- Westminster · 11 mi
- Leominster · 14 mi
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