Whale Back Mountain
Whale Back Mountain rises to 620 m in Maine. Elephant Mountain stands 1,150 m to the west-northwest, 9.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Coos Canyon Rest Area, a rest area 1.3 miles away. RANGELEY LAKES SCENIC BYWAY passes 1.2 miles off.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q33153768, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 620 m
How to reach it
- 1.2 mi off the RANGELEY LAKES SCENIC BYWAY, National
- 16.4 mi off the Grafton Notch Scenic Byway
- 26.2 mi off the Moose Path Trail
- 27.5 mi off the STATE ROUTE 27 SCENIC BYWAY
Overlooks nearby
- Height of Land Scenic Overlook · 10 mi
- Shelton Noyes Scenic Overlook · 14 mi
- Table Rock · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- West Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Brush Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Old Turk Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Record Hill: 2.8 mi
- Walker Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Township 6 Conservation Easement: 4.5 mi
- Tumbledown Public Reserved Land: 5.7 mi
- Flagg Wildlife Management Area: 7.9 mi
- Chandler Family Woodlot: 8.4 mi
- Height of Land: 9.9 mi
- Andover Common: 9.3 mi
- Mexico Rec Park: 10.3 mi
- Smalls Falls Rest Area: 10.4 mi
- Stephens High School Memorial Park: 12.1 mi
- Sandy River Ponds Public Boat Access: 12.1 mi
- Andover Historical Society: 9.3 mi
- Madrid Village Schoolhouse: 12.1 mi
- Phillips Historical Society Museum: 14.8 mi
- Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad: 15.0 mi
- Wilhelm Reich Museum: 18.8 mi
- Andover Korean War and Vietnam War Memorial: 9.3 mi
- Andover World War II Memorial: 9.3 mi
- Andover World War I Memorial: 9.3 mi
- Andover Civil War Memorial: 9.4 mi
- Strong Veterans Memorial: 19.7 mi
- C Bluff: 13.1 mi
- Pauls Bluff: 15.5 mi
- Lightning Ledge: 15.8 mi
- Whittemore Bluff: 16.5 mi
- Shagg Crag: 20.4 mi
- Angel Falls: 6.6 mi
- Smalls falls: 10.4 mi
- The Falls: 10.9 mi
- Rumford Falls: 13.0 mi
- Screw Auger Falls: 17.9 mi
- Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox: 12.7 mi
- Gnome Home Roam Village Square: 16.4 mi
- Leaf Sculpture: 22.8 mi
- Bethel's Civil War Soldier Monument: 23.5 mi
- Mt Zircon Spring: 16.4 mi
- Mountain fountain: 20.8 mi
- King Spring: 22.0 mi
- Light of the World Cross: 11.2 mi
- Moose Cave: 18.9 mi
- Rumford Community Garden: 11.9 mi
- UMF Community Garden: 22.8 mi
- Coos Canyon Rest Area: 1.3 mi
- Smalls Falls: 10.3 mi
- Sunday River Covered Bridge: 19.8 mi
- Greenwood Town Beach: 24.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Whale Back Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elephant Mountain | WNW 290° | 1,150 m | 9.3 mi |
| Old Blue Mountain | WNW 282° | 1,091 m | 8.1 mi |
| Jackson Mountain | ENE 56° | 1,088 m | 5.0 mi |
| Bemis Mountain | WNW 302° | 1,085 m | 9.4 mi |
| Little Jackson Mountain | ENE 57° | 1,055 m | 4.0 mi |
| Beaver Mountain | N 351° | 955 m | 11.1 mi |
| Tumbledown Mountain | NE 55° | 939 m | 3.3 mi |
| Tumbledown Southwest Peak | NE 55° | 935 m | 3.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:16 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 04:58 | 19:47 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:03 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:17 | 16:05 |
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 | 14 | 16 | 26 | 38 | 52 | 60 | 66 | 64 | 56 | 44 | 33 | 21 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 5.4 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 5.9 | 4.5 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Andover 2, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358225631
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