Wantastiquet Mountain
Wantastiquet Mountain rises to 399 m in New Hampshire. Lyman Hill stands 607 m to the west, 9.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Mine Ledge, a cliff 0.2 miles away. Molly Stark Scenic Byway passes 0.9 miles off.
The story
Wantastiquet Mountain is in New Hampshire by the Connecticut River near Brattleboro, Vermont. Conventional wisdom holds that its name means "west river", but researchers reported the name means river where it is easy to get lost. The mountain has also been known as Chesterfield Mountain and Rattlesnake Mountain. It was home to tomber rattlers. It is 1,335 feet high. There is a trail to its summit that passes by former quartzite mines. Wantastiquet Mountain State Forest is 520 acres. The mountain is along the 50 mile Wantastiquet-Monadnock Trail and Greenway. The trail extends to Mount Monadnock. The Wantastiquet Mountain Natural Area covers 1,000 acres and includes the Walter H. Child Monument. It is in the extreme southwest corner of Chesterfield, New Hampshire at the northwest corner of Hinsdale, New Hampshire across the river from Vermont.
Trails up the mountain offer views of the Connecticut River Valley, Brattleboro, Vermont and the Vermont Mountains. Madame Sherri Forest is nearby. A path to the summit was established in the 1840s and a carriage road to the area in 1891. A log cabin offered water cures. Bands reportedly played on the mountain with the sound carrying to those below. In 1924 a cross was burner on it while Ku Klux Klan organizers were in the area. Radio stations and a weather station were installed on it. A 100-foot cable tower topped the mountain until being taken down around 2023. All Souls Unitarian Church in Brattleboro, Vermont was built of Quartzite from the mountain. It is now The Stone Church theater.
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Wikidata Q34818736, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 399 m
How to reach it
- 0.9 mi off the Molly Stark Scenic Byway
- 0.9 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 12.4 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
- 16.6 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
Overlooks nearby
- stone post view · 1 mi
- Dort Knob Vista · 3 mi
- Hubbard Hill Vista · 4 mi
- Beal's Knob Vista · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Wantastiquet Mountain Natural Area: 0.4 mi
- Madame Sherri Forest: 1.0 mi
- Bear Mountain State Forest: 2.7 mi
- Fort Dummer State Park: 2.9 mi
- Whetstone Woods: 3.1 mi
- Pliny Park: 1.0 mi
- Brattleboro Common: 1.0 mi
- Lynch Park: 1.3 mi
- Crowell Playground: 1.4 mi
- Whetsone Park: 2.1 mi
- Daniels Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Sargent Hill: 2.5 mi
- Bear Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Oak Hill: 3.2 mi
- Bear Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Hinsdale Raceway: 3.2 mi
- New Hampshire/Vermont/Massachusetts Tri-State Granite Marker: 9.9 mi
- Massachusetts-Vermont Border Monument: 11.0 mi
- Oya Hill: 13.9 mi
- Gravity Foundation Monument: 14.0 mi
- Brattleboro Museum & Art Center: 0.9 mi
- Antique Carriage and Sleigh Museum: 3.6 mi
- Powers Institute Museum: 12.8 mi
- Cheshire Children's Museum: 14.0 mi
- Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: 14.0 mi
- Mine Ledge: 0.2 mi
- Mine Ledge: 14.0 mi
- Table Rock: 14.2 mi
- Troy Cliffs: 15.6 mi
- Rose Ledge Upper Tier: 18.1 mi
- Parrish Shoes Sign (Jumanji): 14.3 mi
- Stone Bridge: 17.6 mi
- Hermit's Castle: 17.9 mi
- rock overhang: 18.4 mi
- Wolves Den: 18.4 mi
- Old Mill Falls: 2.8 mi
- Pulpit Falls: 11.3 mi
- Hobo Falls: 14.2 mi
- Falls Brook Falls: 15.7 mi
- Royalston Falls: 17.9 mi
- Reaching: 14.0 mi
- Aurora: 14.1 mi
- Trinity Bicycle Shop: 14.1 mi
- Baseball: 14.1 mi
- Johnathan Daniels: 14.2 mi
- Green Mountain Beach: 14.0 mi
- Richmond Town Beach at Cass Pond: 16.2 mi
- The Ledges: 17.0 mi
- Fitzwilliam Town Beach on Laurel Lake: 21.5 mi
- Corona Beach: 22.4 mi
- Creamery Covered Bridge: 2.4 mi
- Green River Covered Bridge: 8.5 mi
- Scott Covered Bridge: 15.4 mi
- Hall Bridge: 19.6 mi
- Victorian Village Covered Bridge: 23.6 mi
- Just Roots Community Garden: 15.4 mi
- Wendell Community Garden: 22.5 mi
- Noahs Ark: 24.3 mi
- John Pierce Garden: 24.5 mi
- Wright Grove: 15.3 mi
- Mt Mills West Picnic Area: 18.4 mi
- Falcon Spring: 22.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.2 miles of Wantastiquet Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyman Hill | W 271° | 607 m | 9.6 mi |
| Chase Hill | WSW 256° | 567 m | 8.8 mi |
| Dummerston Hill | WNW 296° | 500 m | 7.2 mi |
| Governors Mountain | WSW 252° | 497 m | 6.8 mi |
| French Hill | SW 229° | 473 m | 9.7 mi |
| Ginseng Hill | W 261° | 459 m | 5.8 mi |
| Round Mountain | W 271° | 441 m | 5.0 mi |
| Owls Head Mountain | SW 220° | 440 m | 8.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:50 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:33 | 16:20 |
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 | 20 | 23 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 69 | 68 | 60 | 48 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Keene, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357728701
Day trips start here
- Brattleboro · 1 mi
- Swanzey · 13 mi
- Wilmington · 17 mi
- Gill · 19 mi
- Greenfield · 19 mi
- Charlemont · 20 mi
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