Flagstaff Mountain Overlook
Flagstaff Mountain Overlook is a scenic viewpoint in Borough of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Flagstaff Mountain Overlook is situated nearby to the museum Asa Packer Mansion, as well as near the guest house Harry Packer Mansion.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
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. Asa Packer Mansion is situated 3,000 feet north of Flagstaff Mountain Overlook.
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. Harry Packer Mansion is situated 3,100 feet north of Flagstaff Mountain Overlook.
Bear Mountain
Peak
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. Bear Mountain is situated 2½ miles northeast of Flagstaff Mountain Overlook.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jim Thorpe and Packerton.
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.
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.
Lehighton
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lehighton is a borough in the Coal Region, near Jim Thorpe, Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.
Flagstaff Mountain Overlook
- Type: Scenic viewpoint
- Also known as: “Flagstaff”
- Category: tourism
- Location: Borough of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.85645° or 40° 51′ 23″ northLongitude
-75.73651° or 75° 44′ 11″ westElevation
1,312 feet (400 metres)Open location code
87G6V747+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 3827820358OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=viewpointGeoNames ID
5189802
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