Hamlin Peak

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Hamlin Peak
Elevation	1,450 metres (4,756 feet)
Location	Piscataquis County, Maine, USA
Prominence	152 m (496 ft)
Coordinates	45°55.27′N 68°55.40′W
Topo map	USGS Mount Katahdin
Easiest route	hike
Listing	New England 4000 footers

Hamlin Peak is a 4,756-foot mountain located in Baxter State Park in Piscataquis County, Maine. Hamlin Peak is a northern spur of the greater Mount Katahdin massif and is flanked to the south by Baxter Peak, and to the north by the Howe Peaks. Since it rises nearly 500 feet above the col joining it to the higher Baxter Peak, Hamlin Peak qualifies as a four-thousand footer based on the topographic prominence criterion used by the Appalachian Mountain Club, and is ranked as the second-highest peak in Maine.

The southeast face of Hamlin Peak drains into the Great Basin, where water ultimately flows into the Penobscot River and eventually empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Penobscot Bay.

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List of mountains in Maine

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4000-foot mountains of New England
Maine:
Baxter State Park:		Katahdin (Baxter) • Katahdin (Hamlin) • North Brother
High Peaks:		Abraham • Crocker • Redington • Saddleback • Saddleback, The Horn • South Crocker • Spaulding • Sugarloaf
Bigelow Range:		Bigelow (Avery) • Bigelow (West)
Eastern White Mountains:		Old Speck
New Hampshire:
Northern ranges:		Cabot • Waumbek
Carter-Moriah Range:		Carter Dome • Middle Carter • Moriah • South Carter • Wildcat (A) • Wildcat (D)
Presidential Range:		Adams • Eisenhower • Jackson • Jefferson • Isolation • Madison • Monroe • Pierce • Washington
Crawford Notch area:		Field • Tom • Willey
Twin Range:		Bond • Bond (West) • Bondcliff • Galehead • Hale • North Twin • South Twin • Zealand
Pemigewasset Wilderness:		Carrigain • Hancock (North) • Hancock (South) • Owl's Head
Sandwich Range:		Osceola • Osceola (East) • Tripyramid (Middle) • Tripyramid (North) • Passaconaway • Tecumseh • Whiteface
Franconia Range:		Flume • Garfield • Lafayette • Liberty • Lincoln
Western White Mountains:		Cannon • Kinsman (North) • Kinsman (South) • Moosilauke
Vermont:
Green Mountains:		Abraham • Camel's Hump • Ellen • Killington • Mansfield