Round Top
Round Top rises to 427 m in Pennsylvania. Forkston Mountain stands 715 m to the south-southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Meachem Hill, a peak 0.7 miles away. Gateway to the Endless Mountains passes 9.0 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49070069, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 427 m
How to reach it
- 9.0 mi off the Gateway to the Endless Mountains
- 8.9 mi off the Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway
- 25.7 mi off the Governor Casey Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Scenic Overlook (Carbondale) · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Lazy Brook Park: 9.8 mi
- McCord Park: 9.8 mi
- Feed Mill Park: 10.0 mi
- Bob Massaker Sports Complex: 10.0 mi
- Lee Baumgartner Sports Complex: 10.5 mi
- Meachem Hill: 0.7 mi
- Luce Hill: 1.4 mi
- Craig Hill: 1.5 mi
- Sheldon Hill: 2.1 mi
- Jennings Hill: 2.4 mi
- Little Rocky Glen Preserve: 11.6 mi
- Gateway Preserve: 16.5 mi
- Ziegler Preserve: 16.5 mi
- Gardner Spencer Preserve: 16.6 mi
- Salt Springs State Park: 17.1 mi
- H. James Saxton and Donald Sherwood monument: 11.5 mi
- Friedenshutten Monument: 13.0 mi
- Lime Hill Marker: 15.9 mi
- Caboose: 17.3 mi
- AT&T Long Lines RANSOM Facility Historical Site: 21.4 mi
- Wyalusing Valley Museum: 14.1 mi
- French Azilum Historic Site: 17.2 mi
- The Home Textile & Tool Museum: 20.5 mi
- P.P.Bliss Gospel Songwriters Museum: 22.1 mi
- Kopernik Observatory & Science Center: 22.5 mi
- Tunkhannock Viaduct: 11.5 mi
- Laporte House: 17.1 mi
- A Very Old Barn: 17.4 mi
- Red Barn Village Mini-Golf: 18.8 mi
- The Top: 24.1 mi
- Roadside Rest: 13.0 mi
- Pennsylvania Welcome Center: 24.4 mi
- Salt Springs: 17.3 mi
- The Salt Spring: 17.3 mi
- Campbell's Ledge: 24.2 mi
- Ricketts: 24.9 mi
- Prayer Garden: 25.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.1 miles of Round Top. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forkston Mountain | SSW 199° | 715 m | 12.7 mi |
| Douglas Hill | SW 225° | 596 m | 12.4 mi |
| Osterhout Mountain | SSE 155° | 589 m | 10.8 mi |
| Mehoopany Mountain | SSW 205° | 578 m | 10.4 mi |
| Doll Mountain | SSW 198° | 520 m | 10.8 mi |
| East Mountain | SE 141° | 475 m | 12.2 mi |
| Dean Hill | NE 51° | 470 m | 7.2 mi |
| Little Round Top | SW 220° | 469 m | 9.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:08 | 18:40 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 20:00 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 15:52 | 16:37 |
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 | 22 | 23 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 68 | 67 | 59 | 48 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Montrose, 14 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357322566
Day trips start here
- Endless Mountains · 5 mi
- Factoryville · 13 mi
- Clarks Summit · 19 mi
- Scranton · 25 mi
- Dunmore · 26 mi
- Northeastern Pennsylvania · 30 mi
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