Round Top
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. 40 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
- 13.0 mi off the Route 419 Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Michael Horrocks 9/11 Memorial: 4.7 mi
- Highspire War Memorial: 5.8 mi
- Abandoned Mount Gretna Prison Foundations: 8.5 mi
- The "Governor's Troop": 10.6 mi
- City Fountain monument: 10.7 mi
- Wickersham Hill: 9.0 mi
- Neiman Hill: 9.1 mi
- Conewago Hill: 10.4 mi
- Schulls Rock: 11.2 mi
- Governor Dick Hill: 11.9 mi
- State Game Lands Number 246: 0.0 mi
- Shaw Family Nature Preserve: 4.2 mi
- State Game Lands Number 275: 5.2 mi
- Governor Stable: 6.1 mi
- Bellaire Woods: 6.5 mi
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Chickies Rock: 13.9 mi
- Spectator Wall: 21.8 mi
- Trailside Wall: 22.0 mi
- Chinese Wall: 24.0 mi
- Indian Rock: 24.7 mi
- Mt. Gretna Lake & Beach: 10.7 mi
- Concrete Beach: 11.8 mi
- Rausch Gap: 20.0 mi
- 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.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Mountain | N 358° | 491 m | 17.5 mi |
| Third Mountain | NNW 334° | 488 m | 15.8 mi |
| Long Mountain | WSW 249° | 479 m | 24.9 mi |
| Berry Mountain | NNW 340° | 435 m | 23.4 mi |
| Cove Mountain | WNW 294° | 419 m | 23.7 mi |
| Stone Head | WSW 248° | 418 m | 23.8 mi |
| Nells Hill | WSW 243° | 403 m | 16.6 mi |
| Governor Dick Hill | E 80° | 350 m | 11.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:43 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:59 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:26 | 16:01 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 77 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.4 |
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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357306535
Day trips start here
- Wrightsville · 15 mi
- York · 18 mi
- Lancaster · 23 mi
- Lancaster County · 26 mi
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