Mount Monadnock, New Hampshire

Name Info	Local or Alternate Name(s):     Alternate: Grand Monadnock     Alternate: Monadnock Mountain
Elevation Info	Summit: 3170 feet (NAVD88 Vertical Datum) Source/Method: Lidar     Lidar Data Set Info
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	42.86141, -72.10807 (Dec Deg) 42° 51' 41'' N, 72° 6' 29'' W (DMS) 736236 E, 4749449 N, Zone 18 (UTM)
Map Source	US Geological Survey (1:24,000)
Country	United States
State/Province	New Hampshire
County/Second Level Region	Cheshire (Highest Point)
City/Town	Jaffrey
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Mount Monadnock":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Mount Monadnock at SummitPost      Monadnock Mountain at ListsOfJohn      Mount Monadnock at Mountain-Forecast.com      Monadnock Mountain at Summits on the Air (Amateur Radio)      Mount Monadnock at Hikr.org      Monadnock Mountain at USGS-GNIS      CoHP.org Trip Report for Cheshire, NH by Roy Schweiker      CoHP.org Trip Report for Cheshire, NH by Brennan Connelly Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map
Ascent Info Total ascents/attempts logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 2791      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 2454) Selected Trip Reports - Click on linked Date for full report: Date Climber Type GPS TR Words Link 2023-12-21 Ashcroft, Vera TR-310 veranavera.net (2023-09-10) Woodall, Rob TR-56 2022-04-28 Brown, Sean TR-61 2021-09-01 Fishback, Steven TR-237 2021-05-16 Marshall, Charles TR-75 2021-04-18 Sexauer, Gustav TR-692 2021-01-30 Kimball, Pamela TR-255 2020-12-05 Mugford, Evan TR-327 2018-08-23 Taylor, Sean TR-97 2017-06-11 Man, Map TR-52 2016-04-09 Bedard, Richard TR-98 2015-01-19 Larkin, Robert TR-65 2015-01-11 Larkin, Robert TR-50 2014-12-13 Larkin, Robert TR-146 2014-11-28 Larkin, Robert TR-235 2014-11-23 Larkin, Robert TR-91 2014-11-09 Larkin, Robert TR-49 2014-06-15 Bedard, Richard TR-61 2014-05-31 Snyder, Wayne TR-300 2014-01-04 Berger, Michael TR-277 2013-08-25 Bedard, Richard TR-62 2013-07-18 Corcoran, Spencer TR-305 2013-05-04 Corcoran, Spencer TR-373 2012-04-04 Natanis, David TR-261 2011-08-12 Phaneuf, Kurt TR-295 2011-07-28 Corcoran, Spencer TR-260 2011-06-26 Bell, Dwight TR-46 web.me.com 2011-05 C, Ella TR-249 2010-10-02 Crews, Justin TR-248 2010-06-20 Wang, Yu-Pu TR-543
Peak Lists that contain Mount Monadnock      New Hampshire County Prominence Peaks (Rank #4)      New Hampshire County High Points (Rank #4)      YMCA Alpine Club List (NH) (Rank #93)      Northeast USA Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #45)      Eastern USA Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #64)      New England Top 50 by Prominence (Rank #35)      New England Peaks with 25 Miles of Isolation (Rank #7)      New Hampshire Peaks with 1000 feet of Prominence (Rank #10)      New England CoHPs (Rank #22)      Northeast U.S. Peaks with 25 Miles of Isolation (Rank #14)      2000-foot Prominence CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #227)      CoHP High Five List (Rank #146)      New Hampshire 52 with a View (Rank #24)      New England Peaks with 1000 feet of Prominence (Rank #31)      Northeastern USA CoHPs (Rank #54)      High Points of Counties in 13 Original States (Rank #92)
Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Mount Monadnock      Elevation Ladder from Mount Monadnock      Prominence Ladder from Mount Monadnock

The ledgy, rocky summit area of Monadnock is often thronged with hundreds of hikers (1994-05-30).
Web Map Links	Peakfinder Panorama GeoHack Links   CalTopo   MyTopo   Bing Maps Google Maps   Open Street Map
Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 2186 ft/666 m   Optimistic Prominence: 2186 ft/666 m   Line Parent: Smarts Mountain   Key Col: 984 ft/300 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 41.23 mi/66.35 km    Isolation Limit Point: 42.91349, -72.91736 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Haystack Mountain  (W)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Appalachian Mountains Range3: Northern U.S. Appalachians Range4: New England Upland Range5: Southern New Hampshire
Drainage Basins	Connecticut Long Island Sound Atlantic-Eastern USA Atlantic Ocean Contoocook (HP) Merrimack Atlantic-Eastern USA Atlantic Ocean
Route #1	Maintained Hiking Trail: White Arrow Trail Trailhead: 1500 ft/457 m Vertical Gain: 1670 ft/509 m Distance (one way): 3.05 mi/4.91 km
Data Source	GPS Reading or LIDAR
Dynamic Map  Mount Monadnock   ( Key Col)    Other Peaks Click Here for a Full Screen Map

Other Photos

A view of Grand Monadnock from Perkins Pond, (2011-06-19). Photo by Scott Wieman. Click here for larger-size photo.

Just to the northwest of the summit at Mount Monadnock (2014-09-28). Photo by Robert Larkin. Click here for larger-size photo.

A gorgeous view from the Cliff trail. Perfect early fall weather (2014-10-05). Photo by Robert Larkin. Click here for larger-size photo.

Looking north from the summit (2014-10-08). Photo by Robert Larkin. Click here for larger-size photo.

I love it up here! (2014-10-12). Photo by Robert Larkin. Click here for larger-size photo.

Just a really great look at the Spellman trail (2014-10-26). Photo by Robert Larkin. Click here for larger-size photo.

I'm not gonna lie. It was rainy, cold and windy and my daughter and I had a great time! (2014-11-06). Photo by Robert Larkin. Click here for larger-size photo.

My wife and I at the site of the Old Halfway house, just after our hike. (2014-11-09). Photo by Robert Larkin. Click here for larger-size photo.

Jims Junction on Mount Monadnock (2014-09-07). Photo by Robert Larkin. Click here for larger-size photo.

Monadnock has some of the best views of any mountain I've hiked (2014-08-24). Photo by Robert Larkin. Click here for larger-size photo.

This page has been served 31320 times since 2004-11-01.