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Mount Monadnock
- Easiest route
- 2.8 km+543 m · about 1.5 h · T1
- Prominence
- 651 m2,137 ft
- Isolation
- 66 km
- Tonight
- 29°FFair · Wind 0–5 mph N
Mount Monadnock is a 965 m (3,166 ft) mountain in the Appalachian Mountains, New Hampshire, United States.
All facts
- Elevation
- 965 m · 3,166 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Haystack Mountain (1,050 m)
- Range
- Appalachian Mountains
- Region
- New Hampshire, United States
- Protected area
- Monadnock Reservation
- Spanish name
- Monte Monadnock
- Coordinates
- 42.8613° N, 72.1082° W
How to get to the top of Mount Monadnock
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Mt Monadnock Park Headquarters parking (parking)
- Distance
- 2.8 kmone way
- Climb
- +543 m(1,781 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1.5 h
- Difficulty
- T1Easy trail, trainers are fine
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Monadnock 3D map
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Mount Monadnock terrain and contours
25 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Mount Monadnock weather
Tonight · Fair · 29°F (-2°C) · Wind 0–5 mph N
Mount Monadnock forecast for the summit, about 567 m.
- Tonight29°–0–5 mph N
- Sat32°55°–0–5 mph NW
- Sun36°58°–0–5 mph W
- Mon37°61°–5 mph W
- Tue30°50°1%5 mph N
- Wed37°50°4%0–5 mph S
- Thu44°56°9%5–10 mph SW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 23:35 UTC.
Camping & parking near Mount Monadnock
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Monadnock, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Mt Monadnock Park Headquarters parking
Nearest campsite
Mt Monadnock State Park Campground
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Mt Monadnock Park Headquarters parkingParking | 2.5 km SE |
| Parking | 2.5 km W |
| Parking | 2.6 km SE |
| Mt Monadnock State Park CampgroundCampsite | 3.7 km E |
| CIT VillageCampsite | 4.2 km E |
| Camp WanocksettCampsite | 4.5 km ENE |
How steep is the route to Mount Monadnock?
The easiest mapped route, 2.8 km from 421 m to 965 m. Steepest stretch: 35°.
- 0–15°2.0 km
- 15–30°0.7 km
- 30–45°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 40 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Where Mount Monadnock sits
- Range
- Appalachian Mountains40
- Region
- New Hampshire15United States932North America1,313
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Highland Lake↑27 km N
Spofford Lake↑28 km WNW
Mount WachusettPeak · 611 m↑45 km SSE
Lake Sunapee↑57 km N
Quabbin ReservoirLake · 159 m↑58 km SSW
More 1
More in the Appalachian Mountains 6
Mount Monadnock downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 965 m at the summit; the official height is 965 m.
A 10 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 965 m | — |
| USGS 3DEP lidar | 966 m | +1 m |
| USGS 3DEP 10 m (used on this page) | 965 m | -0 m |
| Copernicus GLO-30 | 960 m | -5 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 954 m | -11 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-04)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Protected area
- USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
- Accuracy comparison
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Accuracy comparison
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia