Smarts Mountain
Smarts Mountain rises to 983 m in New Hampshire. Mount Cube stands 873 m to the north, 4.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Smith Mountain, a peak 1.5 miles away. Connecticut River Byway passes 5.6 miles off.
The story
Smarts Mountain is a 3,238-foot-high (987 m) mountain in the town of Lyme in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. Smarts is flanked to the north by Mount Cube, at 2,909 feet (887 m), and to the southwest by Holts Ledge, at 2,110 feet (640 m). Although of only moderate elevation, Smarts is separated from the southwestern White Mountains by Oliverian Notch, a fairly low pass traversed by New Hampshire Route 25 southwest of Mount Moosilauke. That gives Smarts a relative height of 2,190 ft (670 m), which makes it one of twelve mountains in New Hampshire with a prominence over 2,000 ft (610 m). The northwest and south sides of the mountain drain by several brooks into the Connecticut River and thence south into Long Island Sound in Connecticut. The northeast side drains east into the South Branch of the Baker River, and thence via the Pemigewasset and Merrimack rivers into the Gulf of Maine in Massachusetts. Smarts Mountain is the southernmost significant mountain in New Hampshire on the Appalachian Trail, a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine. Smarts is outside the White Mountain National Forest, but the trail runs through a narrow corridor along the ridges which is administered by the Forest Service. There was a Learjet plane crash on the mountain in 1996, as well as a Piper Apache twin crash in 1971.
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Wikidata Q7544150, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 983 m
How to reach it
- 5.6 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 6.2 mi off the River Heritage Tour
- 17.8 mi off the Lakes Region Tour
- 20.1 mi off the Crossroad of Vermont Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Post Pond Overlook · 7 mi
- Balch Hill · 14 mi
- Sunset Viewing Spot · 15 mi
- Norman Overlook · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Smith Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Lampier Hill: 1.8 mi
- Mousley Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Cole Hill: 2.4 mi
- Eastman Ledges: 2.6 mi
- Appalachian National Scenic Trail: 2.6 mi
- Trout Pond Preserve: 3.2 mi
- Stonehouse Mountain Conservation Area: 3.7 mi
- Appalachian National Scenic Trail: 3.7 mi
- Bear Hill Conservancy Land: 3.8 mi
- Winslow Ledge: 4.1 mi
- Holt's Ledge: 4.8 mi
- The Palisades: 8.1 mi
- Buffalo Pit: 9.2 mi
- Small Wall: 9.3 mi
- Chase Beach Recreation Area: 5.7 mi
- Lyme Common: 6.3 mi
- Hamilton Field: 6.7 mi
- Riverside Park: 6.8 mi
- Plummers Ledge Natural Area: 7.4 mi
- Lyme Cannon: 6.4 mi
- North Thetford Bridge: 7.6 mi
- Former Hall Place: 7.6 mi
- Samuel Morey: 7.9 mi
- Pegjack Memorial Forest: 9.4 mi
- Glen Falls: 9.2 mi
- Waternomee Falls: 9.9 mi
- The Chutes: 11.1 mi
- The Chutes: 11.1 mi
- Sculptured Rocks: 12.1 mi
- Lyme-East Thetford Bridge: 7.6 mi
- Redstone Rocket: 9.8 mi
- Cardigan Mountain State Park: 13.4 mi
- Bedell Bridge: 15.3 mi
- Tipping Rock: 16.8 mi
- Chase Town Beach: 5.8 mi
- Goose Pond Park Beach: 8.2 mi
- Fairlee Town Beach: 8.6 mi
- Goose Pond Dam Beach: 10.0 mi
- Treasure Island Beach: 10.3 mi
- Hughes Barn Museum: 9.6 mi
- Canaan Historical Museum: 11.1 mi
- Brian's Museum of Rusty Dusty Stuff: 11.7 mi
- Shaker Museum: 15.3 mi
- Hood Museum of Art: 15.3 mi
- Vermontasaurus: 11.6 mi
- Feral Seed: 14.9 mi
- Robert Frost: 15.1 mi
- Foucault Pendulum: 15.2 mi
- Peaceful Serenity: 15.2 mi
- Edgell Covered Bridge: 7.2 mi
- Sayre Bridge: 11.0 mi
- Union Village Covered Bridge: 11.4 mi
- Willard Twin Covered Bridge: 22.6 mi
- Larkin Covered Bridge: 22.6 mi
- Goose Pond Park Picnic Area: 8.2 mi
- Area 2: 11.3 mi
- Area 1: 11.4 mi
- Campton Day Use Area: 20.5 mi
- Hippy Hill: 22.4 mi
- Life Sciences Greenhouse: 14.9 mi
- Canillas Community Garden: 16.5 mi
- Peace Garden: 17.6 mi
- South Royalton Community Garden: 24.1 mi
- Vermont Welcome Center - Sharon: 20.8 mi
- Rest Area I-91 (South Bound): 21.2 mi
- Springfield Rest Area I-89 (North Bound): 24.9 mi
- Crystal Spring: 18.4 mi
- Breck-Plankey Spring: 21.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.5 miles of Smarts Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Cube | N 6° | 873 m | 4.2 mi |
| Piermont Mountain | NNE 11° | 823 m | 9.4 mi |
| Black Hill | NE 35° | 793 m | 3.0 mi |
| Lampier Hill | ENE 63° | 722 m | 1.8 mi |
| Thompson Hill | SSE 158° | 709 m | 5.7 mi |
| North Peak | SW 221° | 702 m | 8.3 mi |
| South Peak | SW 218° | 693 m | 9.2 mi |
| Winslow Ledge | SSW 213° | 692 m | 4.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:23 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:07 | 19:51 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:10 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:27 | 16:14 |
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 | 18 | 21 | 30 | 42 | 54 | 63 | 69 | 67 | 60 | 47 | 36 | 25 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wentworth, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357727522
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