Sand Mountain
Sand Mountain rises to 624 m in Pennsylvania. Little Flat stands 738 m to the west-southwest, 9.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Kohler Mountain, a peak 0.9 miles away. Bucktail Trail passes 25 miles off.
The story
mountain in Pennsylvania, United States of America
Wikidata Q49071258, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 624 m
How to reach it
- 25.0 mi off the Bucktail Trail
- 28.2 mi off the High Plateau Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Kohler Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Front Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Little Poe Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Big Poe Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Egg Hill: 3.4 mi
- Mira Lloyd Dock Resource Conservation Center: 2.2 mi
- Potter Run Park: 3.0 mi
- Milroy Baseball Fields: 5.4 mi
- Tri-Municipal Park: 7.2 mi
- Reedsville Playground: 8.3 mi
- Indian Monument: 5.3 mi
- Hobart King Kistler: 6.0 mi
- Old Centre Hall Pennsylvania Railroad Depot: 6.6 mi
- James Beck Round Barn: 7.8 mi
- James Cleveland Memorial: 7.9 mi
- Havice Spring: 5.4 mi
- Mammoth Spring: 6.4 mi
- White Pine Spring: 7.5 mi
- McKinney Spring: 7.6 mi
- Coffee Run Spring: 9.7 mi
- Rhoneymeade Arboretum & Sculpture Garden: 7.9 mi
- Rock Hill School at Linden Hall: 10.0 mi
- Boalsburg Heritage Museum: 11.4 mi
- Pennsylvania Military Museum: 11.7 mi
- McCoy House: 13.1 mi
- Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park: 6.8 mi
- Beer Tap: 7.0 mi
- Deeded Square Inches: 11.6 mi
- M60A3 Tank: 11.7 mi
- M114A2 Towed 155mm Howitzer: 11.7 mi
- Yoda Statue: 10.9 mi
- Honors to the Fallen: 11.6 mi
- Via Air Mail: 13.7 mi
- Bells Across PA - "Stories of Our Railroad": 13.9 mi
- Lucy C. Lederer Statue: 14.0 mi
- Poe Valley State Park: 5.6 mi
- Stan Yoder Memorial Preserve: 12.1 mi
- Stony Batter Natural Area: 12.2 mi
- State Game Lands Number 107: 12.9 mi
- Spring Creek Canyon: 13.4 mi
- Long Lane Flower & Garden: 8.4 mi
- The Giving Garden: 13.2 mi
- Bellefonte Community Children's Garden: 13.8 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 14.0 mi
- Penn State Community Garden Pollinator Garden: 14.5 mi
- Rocks at Laurel Creek Reservoir: 5.0 mi
- The Rock: 13.8 mi
- Chimney Rock Overlook: 14.9 mi
- "Holy Toledo" roadcut: 21.0 mi
- Hunter Rock: 22.6 mi
- Snyder-Middleswarth Picnic Area: 15.2 mi
- Rock Springs Picnic Area: 15.9 mi
- Hairy Johns PIcnic Area: 17.4 mi
- Karl Guss Picnic Area: 19.0 mi
- Longfellow Vista: 20.2 mi
- Kish park beach access: 11.3 mi
- Beach access to Kish Creek: 13.3 mi
- Rosecrans Falls: 23.7 mi
- Rosecran Falls: 23.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.8 miles of Sand Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Flat | WSW 255° | 738 m | 9.9 mi |
| Thickhead Mountain | WSW 245° | 733 m | 7.0 mi |
| Big Flat | WSW 248° | 732 m | 12.0 mi |
| Broad Mountain | SW 230° | 726 m | 11.4 mi |
| The Winehead | NNE 24° | 724 m | 13.2 mi |
| Grass Mountain | WSW 239° | 717 m | 9.3 mi |
| Broad Mountain | SW 233° | 716 m | 6.3 mi |
| Milligans Knob | SW 219° | 711 m | 9.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:15 | 18:46 | 19:23 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 20:05 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 16:03 | 16:46 |
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 | 24 | 27 | 35 | 47 | 58 | 67 | 71 | 69 | 61 | 50 | 39 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Millheim, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1193283 — Sand Mountain, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
OpenStreetMap element node/357322779
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