Pitchpine Ridge
Pitchpine Ridge rises to 627 m in Pennsylvania. Thickhead Mountain stands 733 m to the west-southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is White Pine Spring, a spring 0.8 miles away. Bucktail Trail passes 23 miles off.
The story
Ridge in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Wikidata Q49695324, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 627 m
How to reach it
- 23.2 mi off the Bucktail Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Park: 6.7 mi
- Mira Lloyd Dock Resource Conservation Center: 9.0 mi
- McClure Station Park: 9.4 mi
- Potter Run Park: 9.7 mi
- Milroy Baseball Fields: 10.1 mi
- Railroad Bed Historical Marker: 2.6 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 6.7 mi
- James Beck Round Barn: 10.1 mi
- Indian Monument: 11.1 mi
- Old Centre Hall Pennsylvania Railroad Depot: 12.6 mi
- High Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Treaster Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Strong Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Little Poe Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Spruce Mountain: 2.4 mi
- White Pine Spring: 0.8 mi
- Havice Spring: 1.5 mi
- Mammoth Spring: 9.5 mi
- Cold Spring: 10.9 mi
- Hickernell Spring: 12.7 mi
- Rhoneymeade Arboretum & Sculpture Garden: 14.6 mi
- McCoy House: 15.7 mi
- Rock Hill School at Linden Hall: 16.8 mi
- Boalsburg Heritage Museum: 18.3 mi
- Pennsylvania Military Museum: 18.6 mi
- Yoda Statue: 17.8 mi
- Honors to the Fallen: 18.5 mi
- Via Air Mail: 19.2 mi
- Bells Across PA - "Stories of Our Railroad": 19.3 mi
- Lucy C. Lederer Statue: 20.8 mi
- Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park: 10.5 mi
- Red Candle Island: 10.6 mi
- Beer Tap: 13.9 mi
- Lewistown Armory: 13.9 mi
- Deeded Square Inches: 18.3 mi
- Poe Valley State Park: 2.3 mi
- State Game Lands Number 107: 11.3 mi
- Northeast Fishery Center: 14.7 mi
- Stony Batter Natural Area: 18.9 mi
- Stan Yoder Memorial Preserve: 19.0 mi
- Long Lane Flower & Garden: 6.4 mi
- Bellefonte Community Children's Garden: 19.2 mi
- The Giving Garden: 20.0 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 20.7 mi
- Penn State Community Garden Pollinator Garden: 21.3 mi
- Snyder-Middleswarth Picnic Area: 8.3 mi
- Rock Springs Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
- Hairy Johns PIcnic Area: 11.2 mi
- Karl Guss Picnic Area: 21.5 mi
- St. Agnes Picnic Grounds: 22.9 mi
- Chimney Rock Overlook: 8.1 mi
- Rocks at Laurel Creek Reservoir: 10.9 mi
- "Holy Toledo" roadcut: 18.1 mi
- The Rock: 20.2 mi
- Kish park beach access: 13.7 mi
- Beach access to Kish Creek: 15.7 mi
- Rosecran Falls: 19.9 mi
- Rosecrans Falls: 19.9 mi
- Clinton County Rest Area Westbound: 22.8 mi
- Clinton County Rest Area Eastbound: 22.8 mi
- Ingleby: 3.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.9 miles of Pitchpine Ridge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thickhead Mountain | WSW 254° | 733 m | 13.8 mi |
| The Winehead | N 353° | 724 m | 11.2 mi |
| Broad Mountain | WSW 248° | 716 m | 12.7 mi |
| Big Kettle Mountain | NNW 340° | 688 m | 12.1 mi |
| Bald Mountain | WSW 251° | 675 m | 10.6 mi |
| Strong Mountain | SSW 211° | 672 m | 1.7 mi |
| White Mountain | ENE 61° | 671 m | 3.5 mi |
| Thick Mountain | NE 40° | 671 m | 7.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:46 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 20:04 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 16:02 | 16:46 |
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 | 24 | 27 | 35 | 47 | 58 | 67 | 71 | 69 | 61 | 50 | 39 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Millheim, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/6056437154
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