Poland Mountain
Poland Mountain rises to 396 m in Maine. Mount Zircon stands 677 m to the west, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is The Pinnacle, a peak 0.9 miles away. RANGELEY LAKES SCENIC BYWAY passes 12 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q33143964, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 396 m
How to reach it
- 12.0 mi off the Rangeley Lakes Scenic Byway, National
- 20.3 mi off the Grafton Notch Scenic Byway
- 28.9 mi off the Pequawket Trail Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Table Rock · 27 mi
- Height of Land Scenic Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- The Pinnacle: 0.9 mi
- Knights Hill: 1.2 mi
- Tumbledown Dick Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Hedgehog Hill: 2.4 mi
- Morrill Ledges: 2.4 mi
- Dixfield Carry-In Boat Access: 2.3 mi
- Donald E. Hutchins Memorial Ballfield: 5.7 mi
- Hartford Town Beach: 6.4 mi
- Concord Pond State Water Access: 7.0 mi
- Rumford Public Boat Access: 7.4 mi
- LeBlanc Rivershore Preserve: 5.1 mi
- Water Supply Land: 6.2 mi
- Little Concord Pond State Park: 6.6 mi
- Stevens Island Rivershore Preserve: 6.7 mi
- Canton Rivershore Conservation Area: 7.1 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 17.9 mi
- Paris Maine Veterans Memorial: 17.9 mi
- World War Honor Roll: 18.1 mi
- Korea & Vietnam Honor Roll: 18.1 mi
- Those Who Served Us Obelisk: 18.8 mi
- The Washburn-Norlands Living History Center: 11.3 mi
- Paris Hill Historical Society: 15.3 mi
- Red Schoolhouse: 16.9 mi
- State of Maine Ski Museum: 18.8 mi
- Maine Mineral and Gem Museum: 18.8 mi
- Whittemore Bluff: 3.1 mi
- Pauls Bluff: 4.3 mi
- Shagg Crag: 6.1 mi
- Berry Ledge: 12.2 mi
- Bucks Ledge: 13.0 mi
- Greenwood Town Beach: 14.9 mi
- Stinchfield Beach: 18.4 mi
- Richardson's Beach: 19.6 mi
- Town Beach: 23.7 mi
- Gage Rice Beach: 24.6 mi
- Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox: 7.8 mi
- Leaf Sculpture: 18.8 mi
- Bethel's Civil War Soldier Monument: 18.9 mi
- Fisher Man: 21.3 mi
- Rumford Community Garden: 8.4 mi
- Middle School Community Garden: 12.5 mi
- The Eiffel Tower of Paris, Maine: 18.7 mi
- UMF Community Garden: 18.8 mi
- Mt Zircon Spring: 7.3 mi
- Cooper Spring: 14.5 mi
- Rumford Falls: 7.5 mi
- Screw Auger Falls: 24.7 mi
- Snow Falls Rest Area: 13.4 mi
- Coos Canyon Rest Area: 19.9 mi
- Oxford County Fairground: 20.5 mi
- Sunday River Covered Bridge: 21.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.1 miles of Poland Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Zircon | W 269° | 677 m | 6.9 mi |
| Black Mountain | SW 221° | 649 m | 3.3 mi |
| Speckled Mountain | WSW 241° | 645 m | 5.2 mi |
| Little Mount Zircon | W 273° | 583 m | 6.8 mi |
| Bean Mountain | W 261° | 578 m | 7.2 mi |
| Hemingway Mountain | W 271° | 571 m | 8.1 mi |
| Colonel Holman Mountain | NNE 33° | 561 m | 5.4 mi |
| Brown Mountain | NE 40° | 555 m | 5.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:46 | 18:16 | 18:54 |
| June solstice | 04:58 | 19:46 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:29 | 18:03 | 18:41 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:17 | 16:05 |
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, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 573565 — Poland Mountain, Oxford County, Maine.
OpenStreetMap element node/358223065
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