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Round Top

Round Top, seen from above at true elevation

Round Top rises to 281 m in Pennsylvania. Stony Mountain stands 491 m to the north, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is State Game Lands Number 246, a nature reserve less than a tenth of a mile away. Route 419 Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off. 43 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The story

mountain in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wikidata Q49070049, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Elevation
281 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.21593, -76.67719

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Susquehanna Street Park: 2.0 mi
  • Shank Park: 2.1 mi
  • Koons Park: 2.4 mi
  • Swatara Park: 2.5 mi
  • Old Swatara Landing Strip: 2.8 mi
Attractions
  • Indian Echo Caverns: 3.3 mi
  • Candymonium: 5.0 mi
  • sooperdooperLooper: 5.0 mi
  • Tilt-A-Whirl: 5.0 mi
  • Traffic Jam: 5.0 mi
Museums: 60
  • Hummelstown Area Historical Society Library & Office: 3.8 mi
  • Kinderhaus: 4.9 mi
  • The Hershey Story: 5.0 mi
  • Engine House and Lincoln Museum: 5.1 mi
  • AACA Museum: 5.7 mi
Historic sites
Artworks: 43
  • The Promise: 3.4 mi
  • Milton S. Hershey: 5.0 mi
  • The Boy with the Leaking Boot: 5.7 mi
  • Girl Chasing Butterflies: 5.8 mi
  • Winter: 5.8 mi
Peaks: 43
Nature reserves: 40
Gardens: 28
  • Historic Hershey Rose Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Bill Bowman Garden: 5.8 mi
  • Prayer Garden: 7.2 mi
  • Palmyra Community Library: 7.7 mi
  • Northside Garden: 8.1 mi
Picnic sites: 16
  • Original Carrousel Circle: 5.0 mi
  • Quitte Creek Nature Park: 11.9 mi
  • Hidden Laurel Picnic Area: 14.2 mi
  • Hemlock Grove: 14.7 mi
  • Penryn Church Grove: 16.2 mi
Springs: 9
  • Spring Creek Springs: 5.3 mi
  • Donegal Spring: 9.9 mi
  • Penryth Spring: 12.4 mi
  • Spring Lake Spring: 12.7 mi
  • Eichelberger Spring: 12.9 mi
Cliffs: 5
Beaches: 2
  • Mt. Gretna Lake & Beach: 10.7 mi
  • Concrete Beach: 11.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Waterfalls: 1
  • Acrigg's Falls: 21.9 mi

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Round Top. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Stony MountainN 358°491 m17.5 mi
Third MountainNNW 334°488 m15.8 mi
Long MountainWSW 249°479 m24.9 mi
Berry MountainNNW 340°435 m23.4 mi
Round TopN 356°422 m20.0 mi
Cove MountainWNW 294°419 m23.7 mi
Stone HeadWSW 248°418 m23.8 mi
Nells HillWSW 243°403 m16.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1118:4319:19
June solstice05:3819:5920:40
September equinox06:5518:3019:06
December solstice07:2616:0116:45

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313342536373777568564536
Precip in3.02.63.73.63.84.04.73.84.83.83.03.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Middletown Harrisburg Intl AP, 5 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357306535

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