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The Button

The Button, seen from above at true elevation

The Button rises to 472 m in New Hampshire. Sandwich Mountain stands 1,215 m to the north-northeast, 10.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Owl Brook Training Facility, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. River Heritage Tour passes 3.2 miles off.

About

The story

mountain in United States of America

Wikidata Q34812203, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
472 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates43.77799, -71.60397

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Holderness Town Beach: 3.2 mi
  • Squam Lakes Boat Launch Facility: 3.2 mi
  • Pattee Conservation Park: 3.4 mi
  • Ashland Town Beach: 4.2 mi
  • Riverside Park: 4.3 mi
Cliffs
Waterfalls: 31
  • Livermore Falls: 3.2 mi
  • Beede Falls: 6.5 mi
  • Lower Falls: 6.6 mi
  • Mill Brook Cascade: 10.2 mi
  • Lower Falls: 10.8 mi
Beaches: 28
Historic sites: 27
Attractions: 22
  • The Old Country Store: 10.5 mi
  • Monkey Trunks Weirs Beach: 12.9 mi
  • Funspot: 13.0 mi
  • Weirs Beach Go-Kart Track: 13.0 mi
  • Go-Karts: 14.3 mi
Artworks: 20
  • Local Boyscout Harold A. Webster Jr.: 4.4 mi
  • #19 / Enigmatic Dream: 9.8 mi
  • #26 / Stone Sail: 9.8 mi
  • #27 / Black Sail: 9.8 mi
  • #20 / Nova: 9.8 mi
Museums: 18
Picnic sites: 6
  • Campton Day Use Area: 6.5 mi
  • Sabbaday Falls Picnic Area: 18.4 mi
  • Fay Waside Picnic Area: 18.7 mi
  • Hippy Hill: 21.7 mi
  • Sawyer Rock Picnic Ground: 24.8 mi
Springs: 5
  • Crystal Spring: 4.5 mi
  • Elliott Spring: 12.3 mi
  • Breck-Plankey Spring: 14.0 mi
  • Liberty Spring: 23.5 mi
  • lower falls: 24.2 mi
Gardens: 3
  • Peace Garden: 4.4 mi
  • Ken Kasarjian Community Garden: 11.0 mi
  • Mary Bierbrier Community Garden: 12.7 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Sanbornton Rest Area: 19.8 mi
  • The Basin, East: 23.9 mi
  • The Basin, West: 24.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of The Button. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sandwich MountainNNE 32°1,215 m10.0 mi
Stinson MountainWNW 294°878 m9.6 mi
Black MountainNNE 26°830 m8.3 mi
Sachem PeakNNE 24°807 m9.6 mi
Mount IsraelNE 55°800 m8.1 mi
Welch MountainN 8°794 m9.9 mi
Mount WeetamooNNE 17°753 m5.3 mi
Campton MountainNNE 11°745 m5.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2118:59
June solstice05:0519:4920:33
September equinox06:3418:0818:46
December solstice07:1815:2516:13

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F182130425362676558463524
Precip in3.22.63.23.33.74.44.53.83.64.63.64.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Plymouth, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357730892

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