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Bigelow Mountain, Maine

Prominence: 2845 ft, 867 m

Elevation: 4145 feet, 1263 meters

True Isolation: 7.99 mi, 12.85 km

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 4145 ft / 1263 m
Highest Summit	West Peak
Subpeaks	Avery Peak (4088 ft/1246 m) Cranberry Peak (3194 ft/974 m)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	45° 8' 48'' N, 70° 17' 17'' W 45.146771, -70.288172 (Dec Deg) 398732 E 5000062 N, Zone 19 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Maine
County/Second Level Region	Somerset (Highest Point)
City/Town	Dead River
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Bigelow Mountain": Wikipedia Search Microsoft Bing Search Google Search Yahoo Search Other Web Sites Bigelow Mountain at SummitPost.org West Peak at ListsOfJohn.com Weather for Mount Bigelow Maine at Mountain-Forecast.com CoHP.org Trip Report for Somerset, ME by Denis Hanson CoHP.org Trip Report for Somerset, ME by Michael Schwartz Weather and Snow National Weather Service Forecast NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Bigelow Mountain: New England 3700-foot Peaks (Rank #43) Northeast USA 4000-foot Peaks (Rank #73) New England 4000-foot Peaks (Rank #43) Eastern USA Peaks with 2500 feet of Prominence (Rank #19) Northeastern USA CoHPs (Rank #16) 2000-foot Prominence CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #165) Maine County High Points (Rank #4) CoHP High Five List (Rank #118) Northeast USA Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #14) Northeast "115" 4000-footers (Rank #75) AMC New England Hundred Highest (Rank #43) Maine 3,500-foot Peaks (Rank #7) High Points of Counties Crossed by the Appalachian Trail (Rank #41) AMC New England 4000-footers (Rank #43) Maine County Prominence Peaks (Rank #3) Canadian Border CoHPs (Rank #20) New England CoHPs (Rank #8) New England Top 50 by Prominence (Rank #10) Eastern USA Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #19) Selected Trip Reports from this site: 1991-07-06 by Greg Slayden (GPS Track) 1992 by Brian Lamarsh 1995-08-08 by Stephen Collins 2009-09-19 by Dan Doucette 2010 by Norman Ouellette 2010-09-09 by Tomoko Nakajima 2011-06-22 by Patrick Worthley 2011-09-24 by Dave Dunham 2012-01-09 by Rick Schauder (GPS Track) 2012-04-21 by Dan Quinlan 2012-07-07 by Matt DiFrancesco (GPS Track) 2012-08-18 by Ray Di Ciaccio 2013-07-13 by David Thibaudeau (GPS Track) 2014-06-29 by Wayne Snyder 2014-07-29 by Michael Berger (GPS Track) 2014-07-30 by William Musser 2014-09-28 by Richard Bedard (GPS Track) 2015-01-02 by Mike Guethle 2015-08-02 by Paul Fotter 2015-08-16 by Taylor Oude 2016-01-02 by Richard Hachem (GPS Track) 2016-03-20 by Spencer Corcoran 2016-05-21 by Isaiah Knight 2016-10-10 by Jerome Djé (GPS Track) 2017-07-21 by Roberta DellAnno View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (323 total) Nearby Peak Searches: Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Bigelow Mountain Elevation Ladder from Bigelow Mountain Prominence Ladder from Bigelow Mountain

Bigelow Range from the peak of Sugarloaf (2015-06-26). Photo by Wayne Snyder. Click here for larger-size photo.
Web Map Links	GeoHack Links CalTopo MyTopo Gmap4 Bing Maps Google Maps Open Street Map
Prominence	Key Col Page (Detailed prominence information) Clean Prominence: 2845 ft/867 m Optimistic Prominence: 2865 ft/873 m Line Parent: Crocker Mountain Key Col: Huston-Stratton Brooks 1300 ft/396 m
Isolation	Isolation Page (Detailed isolation information) Distance: 7.99 mi/12.85 km Isolation Limit Point: 45.0325, -70.3133 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database: Sugarloaf Mountain (S)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Appalachian Mountains Range3: Northern U.S. Appalachians Range4: Longfellow Mountains Range5: Rangeley-Stratton Ranges Range6: Bigelow Mountain (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	Dead Kennebec Gulf of Maine Atlantic Ocean
Ownership	Land: Maine Public Reserve Land
Topo Map	The Horns O45070b3 1:24,000
Route #1	Maintained Hiking Trail
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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Other Photos

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Not the bluebird day we were hoping for, but we took it anyway. My daughter Laurel took the shot (2015-08-26). Photo by Dick Ellsworth.
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Laurel on the Fire Warden trail (2015-08-26). Photo by Dick Ellsworth.
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