Penobscot Mountain
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Penobscot Mountain rises to 360 m in Maine. Cadillac Mountain stands 466 m to the east-northeast, 2.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Ben's Peak, a peak 0.5 miles away. ACADIA SCENIC BYWAY passes 0.8 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q33143161, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 360 m
How to reach it
- 0.8 mi off the Acadia Scenic Byway
- 9.6 mi off the Schoodic National Scenic Byway, National
- 20.6 mi off the Blackwoods Scenic Byway
- 23.2 mi off the Bold Coast Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Hawk Watch · 3 mi
- Beehive Overlook · 4 mi
- Old Soaker Overlook · 4 mi
- Frazer Point · 10 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ben's Peak: 0.5 mi
- Cedar Swamp Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Gilmore Peak: 0.8 mi
- South Bubble: 0.8 mi
- Sargent Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Suminsby Park: 1.8 mi
- Asticou Azalea Garden: 2.1 mi
- Thuya Garden: 2.3 mi
- Seal Harbor Beach: 2.8 mi
- Town play ground: 3.1 mi
- Babson Creek Preserve: 4.3 mi
- Kittredge Brook Forest: 4.4 mi
- Preble Cove Preserve: 5.5 mi
- Stone Barn Farm Preserve: 6.1 mi
- Blue Horizons Preserve: 6.1 mi
- Hunters Beach: 3.3 mi
- Little Hunters Beach: 3.6 mi
- Echo Lake Beach: 3.6 mi
- Boulder Beach: 4.0 mi
- Sand Beach: 4.2 mi
- The Cleft: 2.5 mi
- Schoolhouse Ledge: 2.7 mi
- Pierce Head: 3.1 mi
- Rhodes Cliff: 3.5 mi
- Beach Cliff: 3.7 mi
- La petite Plaisance: 3.2 mi
- Abbe Museum: 3.5 mi
- Somesville Museum and Gardens: 3.9 mi
- Wendell Gilley Museum: 4.5 mi
- George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History: 4.8 mi
- Champlain Monument: 3.0 mi
- Kurt Diederich: 3.4 mi
- Morris K And Maria De Witt Jesup: 3.4 mi
- Fabri memorial: 3.7 mi
- Bates Memorial: 3.8 mi
- Bear Island Light Station: 3.4 mi
- Egg Rock Light Station: 6.5 mi
- Baker Island Light: 7.2 mi
- Bass Harbor Head Light: 8.4 mi
- Winter Harbor Lighthouse: 9.1 mi
- Birch Spring: 0.5 mi
- Maple Spring: 0.5 mi
- Fern Spring: 1.2 mi
- Jesuit Spring: 3.3 mi
- Sieur de Monts Spring: 3.5 mi
- The Bubble: 0.8 mi
- Thunder Hole: 4.0 mi
- Otter Cliffs Rock Climbing: 4.1 mi
- Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co.: 5.1 mi
- Bar Harbor Whale Watch: 5.1 mi
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: 2.5 mi
- Wild Gardens of Acadia: 3.6 mi
- COA Community Garden: 4.8 mi
- Newlin Garden: 4.9 mi
- Beatrix Farrand Gardens: 4.9 mi
- Hadlock Falls: 0.7 mi
- Man O War Waterfall: 2.7 mi
- Duck Brook Waterfall: 4.3 mi
- Ellsworth Falls: 18.3 mi
- Baxter The Lobster: 5.0 mi
- Water Street Mural: 16.3 mi
- Acadia National Park Picnic Area: 6.8 mi
- Thompson Island Picnic Area: 8.1 mi
- Cathedral Rock: 7.3 mi
- Double Arch: 23.2 mi
- Long Cove: 13.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.4 miles of Penobscot Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cadillac Mountain | ENE 57° | 466 m | 2.5 mi |
| Sargent Mountain | NNW 335° | 419 m | 0.8 mi |
| Dorr Mountain | ENE 59° | 387 m | 2.9 mi |
| Pemetic Mountain | E 81° | 380 m | 1.1 mi |
| Bernard Mountain | WSW 248° | 326 m | 5.6 mi |
| Champlain Mountain | ENE 71° | 323 m | 3.8 mi |
| Dike Peak | E 84° | 321 m | 2.0 mi |
| Gilmore Peak | WNW 302° | 316 m | 0.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:37 | 18:07 | 18:45 |
| June solstice | 04:50 | 19:37 | 20:21 |
| September equinox | 06:21 | 17:54 | 18:33 |
| December solstice | 07:07 | 15:09 | 15:57 |
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 | 33 | 44 | 55 | 64 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 3.8 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 5.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Acadia NP, 3 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Acadia National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Feb and Jan; busiest: Aug.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 580596 — Penobscot Mountain, Hancock County, Maine.
OpenStreetMap element node/358226523
Day trips start here
- Acadia National Park · 8 mi
- Surry · 17 mi
- Ellsworth · 19 mi
- Orland · 28 mi
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