Hanging Rock
Hanging Rock is a cliff in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 430 m. Mill Mountain stands 1,006 m to the southeast, 6.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Reed Farm Spring, a spring 1.6 miles away. Skyline Drive passes 29 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 430 m
How to reach it
- 29.0 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
Overlooks nearby
- Shenandoah Valley Overlook · 29 mi
- Signal Knob Overlook · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Thorny Bottom: 2.8 mi
- Mollys Hill: 3.1 mi
- Buck Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Cherry Ridge: 3.5 mi
- Bollinger Knob: 3.8 mi
- Baker Park: 2.5 mi
- Trout Pond Recreation Area: 6.4 mi
- J. Allen Hawkins Community Park: 7.4 mi
- Wolf Gap Recreation Area: 8.4 mi
- Warden Lake Wildlife Management Area: 8.7 mi
- Reed Farm Spring: 1.6 mi
- Big Spring: 2.3 mi
- Trout Run Fault Spring: 3.7 mi
- Winfred Tharp Spring: 4.2 mi
- Arie Vankan Spring: 4.7 mi
- Woodstock Museum Marshall House: 15.7 mi
- Woodstock Museum Wickham House: 15.7 mi
- The Edinburg Mill: 17.2 mi
- "Connections" The Shentel Museum: 17.2 mi
- Strasburg Museum: 19.5 mi
- Van Buren Furnace: 9.6 mi
- Collie Grave: 10.3 mi
- Parsons Bell Tower: 20.8 mi
- Parsons Bell Tower: 20.8 mi
- Confederate Memorial: 20.8 mi
- Three High Heads: 11.0 mi
- Markley Rocks: 11.0 mi
- Helmick Rock: 11.9 mi
- Dog Cliff: 13.3 mi
- Baker Rocks: 17.4 mi
- Moorefield Historic District: 13.7 mi
- Bryce Resort: 15.9 mi
- Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad: 22.0 mi
- Shenandoah Caverns: 22.8 mi
- Old grape garden: 10.3 mi
- W.O. Riley Park Garden: 15.5 mi
- Herman Rubenstein Memorial Garden: 24.4 mi
- Falls Ridge Waterfall: 11.5 mi
- Mountain Falls: 17.8 mi
- Hooks Mill Falls: 19.5 mi
- Lost River State Park: 13.2 mi
- Water Street Nature Reserve: 16.1 mi
- Homewood Preserve: 20.4 mi
- Cootie Bug: 22.9 mi
- Statue of Liberty: 22.9 mi
- Blue Hole Day Use Area: 23.3 mi
- Pavilian: 24.1 mi
- Public River Access, Fishing: 20.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.8 miles of Hanging Rock. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Mountain | SE 136° | 1,006 m | 6.3 mi |
| Devils Benchmark | S 187° | 995 m | 8.0 mi |
| Sugar Knob | SE 131° | 976 m | 7.2 mi |
| Long Mountain | S 179° | 951 m | 6.3 mi |
| Little Sluice Mountain | SE 133° | 951 m | 8.1 mi |
| Snyder Knob | SSW 202° | 936 m | 8.6 mi |
| Paddy Mountain | ESE 108° | 910 m | 8.4 mi |
| Cove Mountain | SSW 209° | 898 m | 12.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:05 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:38 | 19:14 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 16:14 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 32 | 39 | 51 | 59 | 67 | 71 | 69 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 34 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lost RVR, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356523741
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