Mount Zircon
Mount Zircon rises to 677 m in Maine. Spruce Mountain stands 732 m to the south-southwest, 4.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Mount Zircon, a peak 0.5 miles away. RANGELEY LAKES SCENIC BYWAY passes 9.6 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q33141673, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 677 m
How to reach it
- 9.6 mi off the Rangeley Lakes Scenic Byway, National
- 13.6 mi off the Grafton Notch Scenic Byway
- 22.3 mi off the Pequawket Trail Scenic Byway
- 29.7 mi off the Moose Path Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Table Rock · 20 mi
- Evans Notch Overlook · 25 mi
- Cold River Overlook · 25 mi
- Evans Notch Scenic Overlook · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Concord Pond State Water Access: 2.0 mi
- Rumford Public Boat Access: 2.9 mi
- Hastings Landing: 3.7 mi
- Veteran's Memorial Park: 4.8 mi
- Morency Park: 5.0 mi
- Little Mount Zircon: 0.5 mi
- Bean Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Mount Glines: 1.0 mi
- Davis Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Hemingway Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Water Supply Land: 1.2 mi
- Little Concord Pond State Park: 3.5 mi
- Glassface Mountain Conservation Area: 3.8 mi
- Mystery Mountain: 5.9 mi
- Irl Osborne Brown and Julia Gertrude Brown Memorial Forest: 5.9 mi
- Bethel War Memorial: 12.2 mi
- Andover Korean War and Vietnam War Memorial: 14.6 mi
- Andover World War II Memorial: 14.6 mi
- Andover World War I Memorial: 14.6 mi
- Andover Civil War Memorial: 14.6 mi
- Shagg Crag: 3.3 mi
- Bucks Ledge: 7.0 mi
- Whittemore Bluff: 7.4 mi
- Pauls Bluff: 7.9 mi
- Goss Ledge: 8.3 mi
- Maine Mineral and Gem Museum: 12.3 mi
- Bethel Historical Society Regional History Museum: 12.4 mi
- Moses Mason House Museum: 12.4 mi
- Andover Historical Society: 14.6 mi
- Paris Hill Historical Society: 14.9 mi
- Rumford Falls: 4.5 mi
- Screw Auger Falls: 18.2 mi
- Kees Falls: 21.2 mi
- Angel Falls: 22.6 mi
- Kezar Falls: 22.9 mi
- Rumford Community Garden: 5.7 mi
- Middle School Community Garden: 15.5 mi
- The Eiffel Tower of Paris, Maine: 18.0 mi
- UMF Community Garden: 24.3 mi
- Greenwood Town Beach: 9.2 mi
- Gage Rice Beach: 21.2 mi
- Keoka Lake Beach: 21.9 mi
- Stinchfield Beach: 24.4 mi
- Mt Zircon Spring: 1.0 mi
- Cooper Spring: 15.2 mi
- Mountain fountain: 23.4 mi
- Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox: 4.7 mi
- Bethel's Civil War Soldier Monument: 12.3 mi
- Leaf Sculpture: 24.3 mi
- Snow Falls Rest Area: 11.9 mi
- Coos Canyon Rest Area: 17.4 mi
- Oxford County Fairground: 19.6 mi
- Moose Cave: 20.1 mi
- Sunday River Covered Bridge: 14.1 mi
- Gilead Picnic Ground: 21.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.6 miles of Mount Zircon. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Mountain | SSW 196° | 732 m | 4.8 mi |
| Whitecap Mountain | NW 323° | 655 m | 8.4 mi |
| South Twin Mountain | NNW 343° | 655 m | 9.4 mi |
| Black Mountain | ESE 117° | 649 m | 5.2 mi |
| Speckled Mountain | SE 135° | 645 m | 3.3 mi |
| Chamberlain Mountain | SW 223° | 629 m | 4.3 mi |
| Mollyockett Mountain | S 171° | 611 m | 6.1 mi |
| Little Mount Zircon | N 5° | 583 m | 0.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:46 | 18:16 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 04:58 | 19:46 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:03 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:18 | 16:06 |
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 | 19 | 29 | 42 | 55 | 64 | 69 | 67 | 60 | 47 | 35 | 24 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 6.1 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 4.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rumford 1 SSE, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358225949
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