Porter Hill
Porter Hill rises to 350 m in New Hampshire. Mount Kearsarge stands 891 m to the east-northeast, 5.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Wadleigh State Beach, a beach 0.4 miles away. Lake Sunapee Scenic Byway passes 2.8 miles off.
The story
Mountain in the United States of America.
Wikidata Q34897782, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 350 m
How to reach it
- 2.8 mi off the Lake Sunapee Scenic Byway
- 10.8 mi off the Currier & Ives Trail
- 19.2 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 18.8 mi off the Canterbury Shaker Village Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Eagles Nest · 5 mi
- Martin's Mill Covered Bridge · 25 mi
- Indian Ridge · 27 mi
- Norman Overlook · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Wadleigh State Park: 0.6 mi
- Pierce Park: 3.8 mi
- The Sargent Common: 4.0 mi
- Scytheville Park: 4.2 mi
- Fishersfield Park: 4.3 mi
- Wadleigh Hill: 1.1 mi
- Fellows Hill: 1.1 mi
- Pigeon Hill: 1.3 mi
- Rowell Hill: 1.6 mi
- The Pinnacle: 1.7 mi
- Seymour Natural Area: 0.4 mi
- Sundell Natural Area: 0.6 mi
- Sutton Town Forest & Wetland: 0.7 mi
- Maple Leaf Natural Area: 1.0 mi
- Sutton Pines: 1.3 mi
- Liberty Tree Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Washington Civil War Memorial: 14.5 mi
- Gerrish Depot: 15.4 mi
- William A. Fenlason Square: 16.4 mi
- Odell Park Arch: 16.6 mi
- Wadleigh State Beach: 0.4 mi
- Elkins Beach: 4.2 mi
- Blodgett Landing Coast: 4.3 mi
- State Park Beach: 5.4 mi
- Bucklin Beach: 5.7 mi
- John Hay Estate at The Fells: 4.3 mi
- Flanders-Osborne Museum: 6.5 mi
- Sunapee Historical Society: 6.9 mi
- Potter Place Depot: 7.3 mi
- Upton Chandler House Museum: 8.8 mi
- Newport's Golden Eagle: 10.8 mi
- Uranus: 23.3 mi
- Neptune: 23.4 mi
- John Gilbert Winant: 23.5 mi
- Pluto: 23.5 mi
- Pollard Mills Falls: 11.0 mi
- Gleason Falls: 14.9 mi
- Profile Falls: 18.2 mi
- Litte Dog Falls: 18.5 mi
- Big Dog Falls: 18.5 mi
- Baker Ledge: 3.3 mi
- The Bulkhead: 9.9 mi
- The Ledges: 21.9 mi
- Raymond Cliff: 23.2 mi
- Garden at Tracy Library: 4.1 mi
- Washington Community Garden: 14.4 mi
- Botanical Garden: 23.5 mi
- Canillas Community Garden: 24.7 mi
- Cardigan Mountain State Park: 19.7 mi
- Mercury-Redstone Plaza: 23.2 mi
- Canterbury Shaker Village: 23.4 mi
- Everett Dam: 23.7 mi
- Springfield Rest Area I-89 (North Bound): 10.5 mi
- Canterbury Rest Area: 17.5 mi
- Sanbornton Rest Area: 20.1 mi
- (seasonal): 12.1 mi
- Breck-Plankey Spring: 19.9 mi
- Hippy Hill: 12.4 mi
- Newhall Recreation Area: 23.7 mi
- Cillryville Bridge: 6.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.2 miles of Porter Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Kearsarge | ENE 71° | 891 m | 5.3 mi |
| Summit | WSW 242° | 828 m | 6.7 mi |
| Sunapee Mountain | WSW 238° | 824 m | 6.4 mi |
| South Peak | WSW 237° | 794 m | 6.0 mi |
| Black Mountain | E 79° | 774 m | 4.6 mi |
| Lucias Lookout | SW 226° | 756 m | 8.2 mi |
| Little Mountain | ENE 79° | 710 m | 5.7 mi |
| North Peak | WSW 246° | 692 m | 6.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:23 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 19:49 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:09 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:29 | 16:15 |
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 | 64 | 69 | 67 | 60 | 48 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 5.5 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Sunapee, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 869311 — Porter Hill, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
OpenStreetMap element node/357726088
Day trips start here
- New London · 4 mi
- Dartmouth Lake Sunapee · 13 mi
- Franklin · 17 mi
- Tilton · 19 mi
- Claremont · 20 mi
- Orange · 20 mi
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