Pitcher Mountain
Pitcher Mountain rises to 653 m in New Hampshire. Osgood Hill stands 681 m to the south-southeast, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Pitcher Mountain Fire Tower, a nature reserve less than a tenth of a mile away. Currier & Ives Trail passes 12 miles off.
The story
Pitcher Mountain is a 2,153 foot (656 m) monadnock located in southwest New Hampshire. The mountain is traversed by the 50 mile (80 km) Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway and offers 360 degree views from its open summit. Lower elevations are wooded with species of the northern hardwood forest type; small stands of coniferous red spruce cling to the upper slopes. A fire tower stands on the summit and a beef livestock farm occupies the east shoulder of the mountain. Pitcher Mountain is part of an extensive area of heath barrens and blueberry fields that continue north over Hubbard Hill and Jackson Hill. The east and north sides of Pitcher Mountain drain into the Beards Brook watershed, then into the Contoocook River, then the Merrimack River and the Atlantic Ocean. The west and south sides drain into Robinson Brook, thence Otter Brook, "The Branch", the Ashuelot River, then the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound.
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Wikidata Q7198876, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 653 m
How to reach it
- 12.2 mi off the Currier & Ives Trail
- 14.8 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 14.9 mi off the Lake Sunapee Scenic Byway
- 19.3 mi off the General John Stark Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- View of Bellows Falls · 15 mi
- Eagles Nest · 16 mi
- Beal's Knob Vista · 21 mi
- Hubbard Hill Vista · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Pitcher Mountain Fire Tower: 0.0 mi
- Little Big Forest: 2.1 mi
- James L. & Eleanor S. Crider Forest: 2.4 mi
- Rumrill Family Forest: 2.8 mi
- Pierce Wildlife & Forest Reservation: 3.3 mi
- Hedgehog Hill: 0.5 mi
- Hedgehog Hill: 0.6 mi
- Towne Hill: 0.7 mi
- Hodgeman Hill: 1.1 mi
- Robinson Hill: 1.2 mi
- Camp Morgan: 5.4 mi
- Gregg Lake Beach Park: 8.2 mi
- Pillsbury State Park: 8.7 mi
- Manahan Park: 9.2 mi
- Franklin Pierce Homestead State Historic Site: 9.5 mi
- Washington Historical Society: 6.0 mi
- Alstead Historical Society: 12.1 mi
- Colony House Museum: 13.4 mi
- Horatio Colony Museum: 13.5 mi
- Cheshire Children's Museum: 13.5 mi
- Sunset Beach: 10.3 mi
- Corona Beach: 11.7 mi
- Picnickers Beach: 15.4 mi
- Campers Beach: 15.5 mi
- Ranger Beach: 16.3 mi
- Washington Civil War Memorial: 6.0 mi
- Keene Soldier's Monument: 13.2 mi
- Gravity Foundation Monument: 13.7 mi
- Oya Hill: 13.8 mi
- Liberty Tree Memorial: 16.3 mi
- Johnathan Daniels: 13.3 mi
- Pizza Wings: 13.3 mi
- Jennie B. Powers: 13.4 mi
- Baseball: 13.4 mi
- Trinity Bicycle Shop: 13.4 mi
- Gleason Falls: 9.7 mi
- Brennan Falls: 16.7 mi
- Pollard Mills Falls: 17.0 mi
- Bonner Falls: 19.9 mi
- Falls Brook Falls: 20.0 mi
- Mine Ledge: 12.4 mi
- Table Rock: 15.4 mi
- Billings Fold: 16.1 mi
- Black Precipice: 16.4 mi
- Troy Cliffs: 19.7 mi
- Parrish Shoes Sign (Jumanji): 13.3 mi
- Frog Rock: 23.6 mi
- Everett Dam: 23.9 mi
- Everett Dam: 24.1 mi
- Everett Dam: 24.2 mi
- Washington Community Garden: 6.1 mi
- John Pierce Garden: 13.5 mi
- Noahs Ark: 15.0 mi
- Blue Star Garden: 22.5 mi
- Garden at Tracy Library: 23.4 mi
- (seasonal): 8.3 mi
- Falcon Spring: 16.7 mi
- River Road Spring: 24.3 mi
- Hall Bridge: 18.0 mi
- Victorian Village Covered Bridge: 19.9 mi
- Bartonsville Covered Bridge: 22.1 mi
- Wright Grove: 11.0 mi
- Newhall Recreation Area: 11.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.6 miles of Pitcher Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osgood Hill | SSE 164° | 681 m | 6.9 mi |
| Silver Mountain | NNW 344° | 652 m | 7.2 mi |
| Ames Hill | NNE 14° | 639 m | 7.6 mi |
| Healey Hill | NNE 17° | 627 m | 2.7 mi |
| Hodgeman Hill | WSW 249° | 626 m | 1.1 mi |
| Bald Mountain | SE 133° | 617 m | 7.2 mi |
| Jackson Hill | NNW 340° | 613 m | 2.6 mi |
| Copeland Hill | NNE 20° | 604 m | 2.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:23 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:10 | 19:49 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:10 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:31 | 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 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 59 | 47 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.5 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bradford 2, 13 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 869237 — Pitcher Mountain, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
OpenStreetMap element node/357725897
Day trips start here
- Swanzey · 17 mi
- Claremont · 22 mi
- New London · 23 mi
- Rindge · 25 mi
- Brattleboro · 27 mi
- Dartmouth Lake Sunapee · 27 mi
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