Bear Mountain
Bear Mountain, in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania several miles above the Lehigh Gap, is a steep-sided east bank ridgeline running about 9.96 miles between the hairpin turn in the Lehigh the Lenape Amerindian people visualized as a bear's snout, along many water gap gorges, to the steep face dropping down to the Penn Forest Reservoir.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Asa Packer Mansion and Harry Packer Mansion.
Asa Packer Mansion
Museum
Photo: Chris18240, Public domain.
The Asa Packer Mansion is a historic house museum on Packer Road in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, United States. Completed in 1861, it was the home of Asa Packer, a coal and railroad magnate, philanthropist, and founder of Lehigh University.
Harry Packer Mansion
Guest house
Photo: KForce, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Harry Packer Mansion, is a historic home which is located in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located in the Old Mauch Chunk Historic District, this residence was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1974.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Packerton and Jim Thorpe.
Packerton
Hamlet
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
Packerton is a village located in Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River and U.S. Route 209 between Jim Thorpe and Lehighton. It uses the Lehighton ZIP code of 18235.
Jim Thorpe
Jim Thorpe is a borough in the Coal Region, near Lehighton, Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Harrity
Hamlet
Harrity is a village in Franklin Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania on the Pohopoco Creek, which flows westward from Beltzville Lake into the Lehigh River to the south of the village in Parryville.
Bear Mountain
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,660 feet
- Description: mountain in Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Borough of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.8737° or 40° 52′ 25″ northLongitude
-75.69936° or 75° 41′ 58″ westElevation
1,660 feet (506 metres)Open location code
87G6V8F2+F7OpenStreetMap ID
node 357276341OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Bear Mountain” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bear Mountain (bukid sa Estados Unidos, Pennsylvania, Carbon County, lat 40,87, long -75,70)”
- Cebuano: “Bear Mountain”
- Urdu: “بئیر ماؤنٹین”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bear Mountain”. Photo: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0.