Yellow Cliffs
Yellow Cliffs is a cliff in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 725 m. Bushytop stands 1,142 m to the east-southeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Waterfall Mountain, a peak 2.1 miles away. Skyline Drive passes 12 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 725 m
How to reach it
- 12.2 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
Overlooks nearby
- Blackrock Overlook · 12 mi
- Tanners Ridge Overlook · 12 mi
- Spitler Knoll Overlook · 12 mi
- Fishers Gap Overlook · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Waterfall Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Short Horse Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Bird Knob: 2.3 mi
- Big Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Strickler Knob: 3.4 mi
- Rebel Park: 3.1 mi
- New Market Pocket Park: 3.2 mi
- New Market Community Park: 3.4 mi
- Carillon Park: 7.8 mi
- Mountain Lion Reminiscing Park: 8.2 mi
- 54th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment: 3.5 mi
- Catherine Furnace: 5.0 mi
- Luray Caverns Discovery Marker: 7.6 mi
- Bethany Veney Remembrance Garden: 7.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 8.2 mi
- Lewis Spring Falls: 11.8 mi
- Naked Creek Falls: 12.7 mi
- Dark Hollow Falls: 12.9 mi
- Rose River Falls: 13.1 mi
- Big Creek Falls: 13.9 mi
- New Market Battlefield Military Museum & Wharton Advance Trail: 3.6 mi
- Museum of American Calvary: 3.6 mi
- New Market Battlefield Military Museum: 3.6 mi
- Dukes of Hazard Museum: 3.9 mi
- American Celebration on Parade: 6.5 mi
- Pitt Spring: 5.0 mi
- Hiden Spring: 6.1 mi
- Edinburg Gap Spring: 12.0 mi
- Lewis Spring: 12.0 mi
- Davids Spring: 12.2 mi
- Statue of Liberty: 6.4 mi
- Cootie Bug: 6.5 mi
- Love: 7.7 mi
- Happy Moon, 10,000 Smiles: 9.9 mi
- Flames: 17.9 mi
- Cooter's Luray: 3.9 mi
- Shenandoah Caverns: 6.6 mi
- Luray Caverns: 7.6 mi
- Luray Caverns: 7.6 mi
- The Garden Maze: 7.6 mi
- Picnic Area: 7.6 mi
- Picnic Area: 7.7 mi
- Pavilian: 8.8 mi
- Big Meadows Picnic Grounds: 11.8 mi
- Pinnacles picnic ground: 14.8 mi
- Franklin Cliffs: 12.4 mi
- Huckleberry Cliff: 12.8 mi
- Halfmile Cliff: 15.0 mi
- Markley Rocks: 18.2 mi
- Rattlesnake Point: 19.5 mi
- Heishman Garden: 18.0 mi
- W.O. Riley Park Garden: 18.2 mi
- ISAT Patio: 19.0 mi
- Old grape garden: 19.0 mi
- Edith J. Carrier Arboretum: 19.2 mi
- Water Street Nature Reserve: 17.7 mi
- PATC Entry Run Tract: 18.7 mi
- Mole Hill Acres: 21.9 mi
- Lost River State Park: 25.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.9 miles of Yellow Cliffs. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bushytop | ESE 102° | 1,142 m | 12.7 mi |
| Nakedtop | ESE 113° | 1,138 m | 12.4 mi |
| Blackrock | SE 127° | 1,116 m | 11.7 mi |
| Pollock Knob | ESE 104° | 1,086 m | 12.9 mi |
| Millers Head | ESE 102° | 1,062 m | 12.3 mi |
| Grubbs Knob | SSW 207° | 975 m | 12.2 mi |
| Morgan Knob | SSW 202° | 936 m | 9.1 mi |
| Third Mountain | SSW 202° | 932 m | 9.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:51 | 20:03 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:38 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:15 | 16:57 |
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 | 32 | 35 | 41 | 52 | 61 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 65 | 54 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 2.4 | 1.8 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 2.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Edinburg, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356575739
Day trips start here
- Shenandoah National Park · 13 mi
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