Second Mountain
Second Mountain rises to 587 m in Pennsylvania. Thickhead Mountain stands 733 m to the west-southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Tunnel Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Bucktail Trail passes 21 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49072115, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 587 m
How to reach it
- 20.6 mi off the Bucktail Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Park: 3.8 mi
- Potter Run Park: 8.3 mi
- Mira Lloyd Dock Resource Conservation Center: 8.3 mi
- Milroy Baseball Fields: 10.8 mi
- Joyce Kilmer Monument: 10.9 mi
- Railroad Bed Historical Marker: 3.0 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 3.8 mi
- James Beck Round Barn: 7.1 mi
- Indian Monument: 9.0 mi
- James Cleveland Memorial: 10.2 mi
- Tunnel Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Stillhouse Knob: 1.0 mi
- Little Poe Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Slide Mountain: 1.9 mi
- High Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Havice Spring: 2.8 mi
- White Pine Spring: 2.9 mi
- Mammoth Spring: 10.8 mi
- Steel Spring: 11.6 mi
- Cold Spring: 12.6 mi
- Rhoneymeade Arboretum & Sculpture Garden: 13.0 mi
- Rock Hill School at Linden Hall: 15.2 mi
- Howard Area Museum Historical Society: 15.4 mi
- Miles-Humes House, Centre County Library & Historical Museum: 16.7 mi
- American Philatelic Center: 16.8 mi
- Via Air Mail: 16.6 mi
- Yoda Statue: 16.7 mi
- Bells Across PA - "Stories of Our Railroad": 16.8 mi
- Honors to the Fallen: 17.2 mi
- Lucy C. Lederer Statue: 19.3 mi
- Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park: 7.7 mi
- Red Candle Island: 11.7 mi
- Beer Tap: 12.8 mi
- Lewistown Armory: 15.7 mi
- Deeded Square Inches: 16.6 mi
- Poe Valley State Park: 1.2 mi
- Northeast Fishery Center: 11.7 mi
- State Game Lands Number 107: 14.1 mi
- State Game Lands Number 255: 16.7 mi
- Stony Batter Natural Area: 17.2 mi
- Long Lane Flower & Garden: 3.5 mi
- Bellefonte Community Children's Garden: 16.7 mi
- The Giving Garden: 18.4 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 19.0 mi
- Penn State Community Garden Pollinator Garden: 19.6 mi
- Snyder-Middleswarth Picnic Area: 10.3 mi
- Rock Springs Picnic Area: 11.0 mi
- Hairy Johns PIcnic Area: 11.2 mi
- St. Agnes Picnic Grounds: 20.4 mi
- Lock Port Picnic and Boat Launch: 20.9 mi
- Chimney Rock Overlook: 9.3 mi
- Rocks at Laurel Creek Reservoir: 11.0 mi
- "Holy Toledo" roadcut: 15.9 mi
- The Rock: 18.1 mi
- Kish park beach access: 15.5 mi
- Beach access to Kish Creek: 17.5 mi
- Rosecrans Falls: 18.1 mi
- Rosecran Falls: 18.2 mi
- Clinton County Rest Area Westbound: 22.2 mi
- Clinton County Rest Area Eastbound: 22.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.1 miles of Second Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thickhead Mountain | WSW 241° | 733 m | 13.1 mi |
| The Winehead | N 3° | 724 m | 8.5 mi |
| Broad Mountain | SW 234° | 716 m | 12.4 mi |
| Big Kettle Mountain | NNW 345° | 688 m | 9.1 mi |
| Bald Mountain | SW 234° | 675 m | 10.2 mi |
| Strong Mountain | SSE 168° | 672 m | 4.1 mi |
| White Mountain | E 100° | 671 m | 4.9 mi |
| Thick Mountain | ENE 65° | 671 m | 7.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:46 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 20:04 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 16:02 | 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, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1193313 — Second Mountain, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
OpenStreetMap element node/357322810
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