South Crocker Mountain is a
mountain located in
Franklin County,
Maine.
South Crocker Mountain is flanked to the north by
Crocker Mountain, and to the southwest by
Mount Redington.
The northeast and southeast faces of South Crocker Mountain drain into the
South Branch of the
Carrabassett River, which flows into the
Kennebec River
The Kennebec River (Abenaki language, Abenaki: ''Kinəpékʷihtəkʷ'') is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed June 30, 2011 river within the U.S. state of Maine. It ri ...
, and into the
Gulf of Maine. The west face of South Crocker drains into Nash Stream, thence into the
South Branch of the Dead River,
Flagstaff Lake, the
Dead River, another
tributary of the Kennebec.
The
Appalachian Trail, a
National Scenic Trail from
Georgia to
Maine, traverses the summit of South Crocker Mountain, running north along the ridge to Crocker, and east across Caribou Valley to
Sugarloaf Mountain.
See also
*
List of mountains in Maine
References
Mountains of Franklin County, Maine
Mountains on the Appalachian Trail
New England Four-thousand footers
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