Owlhead Mountain
Owlhead Mountain rises to 874 m in New Hampshire. Bunnell Mountain stands 1,135 m to the west, 8.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Kelsey Wildlife Management Area, a nature reserve 1.1 miles away. Moose Path Trail passes 3.7 miles off.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q34888181, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 874 m
How to reach it
- 3.7 mi off the Moose Path Trail
- 12.1 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 11.2 mi off the Woodland Heritage Trail
- 14.4 mi off the Grafton Notch Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Dixville Notch Wildlife Viewing Area · 5 mi
- Middle Brother · 6 mi
- Table Rock · 6 mi
- Stark Covered Bridge · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Kelsey: 1.6 mi
- Mount Metalak: 2.9 mi
- Mount Patience: 3.4 mi
- Muise Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Dixville Peak: 4.0 mi
- Mount Kelsey Wildlife Management Area: 1.1 mi
- Hedgehog Brook Wildlife Management Area: 3.5 mi
- Blueberry Swamp Division of Silvio O. Conte National Fish & Wildlife Refuge: 6.4 mi
- Vickie Bunnell Preserve: 8.0 mi
- Greenough Ponds Wildlife Management Area: 9.1 mi
- Dixville Notch State Park: 5.7 mi
- Androscoggin Wayside Park: 6.7 mi
- Mollidgewock State Park: 8.2 mi
- Fish Pond Boat Launch Facility: 10.2 mi
- Beaver Brook Falls State Wayside: 12.5 mi
- Huntington Cascades: 5.4 mi
- Baby Flume: 5.7 mi
- Pond Brook Falls: 8.2 mi
- Crystal Falls: 11.0 mi
- Beaver Brook Falls: 12.4 mi
- The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel: 6.3 mi
- Camp Stark German Prisoner of War Camp: 11.8 mi
- Camp Stark: 11.8 mi
- Dummer Veterans Memorial: 12.8 mi
- Canaan Veterans Memorial: 18.9 mi
- Devils Slide: 13.0 mi
- Alice Ledge: 13.6 mi
- Linda Ledge: 14.2 mi
- Sid Hayward Ledge: 16.1 mi
- Finnsons Cliff: 16.8 mi
- Pittsburg Historical Society Museum: 19.4 mi
- Moffett House Museum: 22.0 mi
- Lancaster Historical Society: 23.6 mi
- Cascade Brook Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- Flume Brook Picnic Area: 5.7 mi
- Back Lake Beach: 20.9 mi
- Sandy Beach: 23.0 mi
- Laura Lee Viger Community Gardens: 22.5 mi
- Lancaster Community Garden: 24.1 mi
- Moose Cave: 22.6 mi
- Lancaster Fairgrounds: 22.6 mi
- Hand-On-The-Rock: 12.7 mi
- Columbia Covered Bridge: 13.1 mi
- Mountain fountain: 19.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Owlhead Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bunnell Mountain | W 276° | 1,135 m | 8.5 mi |
| Sugarloaf | WSW 253° | 1,128 m | 8.3 mi |
| Long Mountain | SSW 208° | 1,120 m | 7.7 mi |
| Long Mountain West Peak | SSW 212° | 1,116 m | 8.9 mi |
| Gore Mountain | W 268° | 1,101 m | 7.8 mi |
| Muise Mountain | W 277° | 1,096 m | 3.6 mi |
| Castle Mountain | W 261° | 1,087 m | 8.6 mi |
| West Peak | W 260° | 1,072 m | 9.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:19 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:00 | 19:50 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:06 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:19 | 16:08 |
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 | 12 | 13 | 23 | 37 | 51 | 60 | 65 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 20 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 5.1 | 3.5 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Errol AP, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 868954 — Owlhead Mountain, Coos County, New Hampshire.
OpenStreetMap element node/357725196
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