Balancing Act
Balancing Act is an artwork in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 283 m. Moores Knob stands 783 m to the north, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Merschel Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Hanging Rock Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off. 13 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Material
- stainless steel
How to reach it
- 16.9 mi off the Hanging Rock Scenic Byway
- 26.6 mi off the Football Road
Named places within 25 miles
- Merschel Park: 0.0 mi
- The Passageway Pocket Park: 0.1 mi
- Winston Square Park: 0.2 mi
- Corpening Plaza: 0.2 mi
- ARTivity On The Green: 0.3 mi
- Original Site of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts: 0.7 mi
- Historic Bethabara: 4.9 mi
- Clock Tower: 7.0 mi
- Nissen House: 9.8 mi
- Lewisville Veteran's Monument: 9.8 mi
- George Henry Black: 0.3 mi
- Coffee Pot: 0.5 mi
- Twin Arches: 1.3 mi
- Twin Arches: 1.3 mi
- Twin Arches: 1.3 mi
- Kaledium: 0.1 mi
- Children's Museum of Winston Salem: 0.5 mi
- The Winston Cup Museum Special Event Center: 0.5 mi
- Single Sisters' House Museum: 0.8 mi
- Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts: 1.0 mi
- Baux Mountain: 9.2 mi
- Piney Mountain: 16.7 mi
- Flat Shoal Mountain: 19.3 mi
- Cooks Wall Mountain: 19.6 mi
- Stony Ridge: 19.6 mi
- Reynolda Gardens: 2.8 mi
- Wait Chapel: 3.2 mi
- Tanglewood Festival of Lights: 11.0 mi
- Browder Family Cemetery: 12.5 mi
- Railcar: 17.4 mi
- Evergreen Farm: 7.1 mi
- Allen Jay Park: 19.4 mi
- Ararat River Access: 21.1 mi
- Pitzer Road Public Fishing Area: 21.7 mi
- Concord Church Access: 22.4 mi
- The Kristin Hartz Garden: 2.6 mi
- Clemmons Community Garden: 9.4 mi
- Hedgecock Strawberry Farm: 10.9 mi
- Tanglewood Arboretum: 11.0 mi
- All-American Rose Selections Garden: 11.2 mi
- Shacktown Falls: 19.5 mi
- Upper Casscades: 20.6 mi
- Tise falls: 20.7 mi
- Hidden Falls: 20.8 mi
- Window Falls: 21.0 mi
- Cooks Wall: 19.5 mi
- Moores Wall: 20.7 mi
- Indian Face: 20.8 mi
- Little Amphitheater: 21.4 mi
- Three Bears: 21.4 mi
- Davie County, I-40 Westbound Rest Area: 15.5 mi
- Davie County, I-40 Eastbound Rest Area: 15.6 mi
- Davidson County I-85 Southbound Rest Area: 18.8 mi
- Davidson County I-85 Northbount Rest Area: 18.8 mi
- Fishing Island Picnic Site: 17.8 mi
- Ivy Bluffs Picnic Area: 18.2 mi
- Magnolia Springs: 19.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Balancing Act. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moores Knob | N 354° | 783 m | 20.8 mi |
| Pilot Mountain | NW 323° | 735 m | 21.0 mi |
| Cooks Wall Mountain | N 353° | 707 m | 19.6 mi |
| Sauratown Mountain | NNW 340° | 683 m | 20.4 mi |
| Hanging Rock | N 358° | 641 m | 20.6 mi |
| Cole Gap Mountain | N 357° | 616 m | 20.0 mi |
| Ruben Mountain | N 350° | 547 m | 20.3 mi |
| Flat Shoal Mountain | N 4° | 490 m | 19.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 18:59 | 19:33 |
| June solstice | 06:05 | 20:04 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:31 | 17:11 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 43 | 50 | 59 | 68 | 75 | 79 | 77 | 71 | 60 | 50 | 43 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Winston Salem Reynolds AP, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/11229949572
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