Piedmont Vegetable Garden
Marked private. Do not count on getting in.
Piedmont Vegetable Garden is a garden in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 661 m. Bald Knob stands 1,327 m to the northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Ode to Jeff Gordon, a artwork 0.2 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 16 miles off.
How to reach it
- 15.8 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 24.2 mi off the Farm Heritage Road
Overlooks nearby
- Devil's Backbone Overlook · 20 mi
- Pine Spur Overlook · 20 mi
- Smart View Overlook · 22 mi
- Roanoke Mountain Loop Lookout · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- The Mill's Best Tree: 0.3 mi
- Sunrise Park: 0.4 mi
- Crestview Tot Lot: 0.7 mi
- Dehart Street Tot Lot: 0.8 mi
- Graves Park: 1.0 mi
- High Knob: 0.8 mi
- Hightop Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Paris Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Price Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Mill Knob: 4.8 mi
- The Pylons: 2.0 mi
- VTCC WW1 and April 16th Memorial: 2.0 mi
- April 16th Memorial: 2.0 mi
- Winfrey’s Rock: 2.3 mi
- Prices Fork Research Center Building - Architecture - Former.: 5.4 mi
- Ode to Jeff Gordon: 0.2 mi
- Frank Beamer Statue: 1.6 mi
- Perspective Gallery: 1.9 mi
- Modern Art: 5.4 mi
- Modern Art: 5.4 mi
- Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation: 1.6 mi
- St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall: 2.2 mi
- Smithfield Plantation: 2.2 mi
- Christiansburg Institute Museum: 5.4 mi
- Montgomery Museum of Art and History: 5.7 mi
- Falls Ridge Preserve: 4.1 mi
- Sweet Springs State Natural Area Preserve: 7.4 mi
- Clover Hollow Natural Area Preserve: 9.8 mi
- Niday Place State Forest: 12.5 mi
- Havens Wildlife Management Area: 14.9 mi
- Hahn Horticultural Garden: 1.8 mi
- Radford Alumni Memorial Garden: 10.0 mi
- Volvo Break Area Indoor Garden: 19.8 mi
- Break Area Indoor Garden and Gazebo: 19.9 mi
- Mountain View Community Garden: 23.9 mi
- Bear Cliff: 12.3 mi
- Bear Cliffs: 12.3 mi
- Barney's Wall: 15.2 mi
- Barneys Wall: 15.2 mi
- Dragon's Tooth: 15.8 mi
- Sapphire Ballroom & Dance Center: 5.8 mi
- Keffer Oak: 9.6 mi
- Dixie Caverns: 12.2 mi
- Eastern Continental Divide: 13.0 mi
- One Clear View: 20.8 mi
- Camp Creek: 13.4 mi
- Bent Mountain Falls: 13.4 mi
- Cascades: 14.7 mi
- Iranto Rest Area: 9.4 mi
- Radford Safety Rest Area North: 10.7 mi
- Haven Heights Picnic Site: 10.1 mi
- Smart View Recreation Area: 22.6 mi
- Water Front: 18.3 mi
- Waterfront: 22.7 mi
- Spring Well #25: 20.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.4 miles of Piedmont Vegetable Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | NW 320° | 1,327 m | 12.5 mi |
| Lookoff Rock | NW 311° | 1,256 m | 16.4 mi |
| Wind Rock | NNW 334° | 1,246 m | 15.6 mi |
| Lone Pine Peak | NNW 338° | 1,232 m | 14.7 mi |
| Salt Pond Mountain | NNW 338° | 1,231 m | 14.7 mi |
| Doe Mountain | NW 316° | 1,211 m | 13.9 mi |
| Minie Ball Hill | NNW 334° | 1,197 m | 15.1 mi |
| Kelly Knob | NNW 345° | 1,141 m | 10.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 18:59 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 06:02 | 20:07 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 16:28 | 17:08 |
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 | 42 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 53 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Blacksburg Nwso, 1 mi away.
- Mourning Dove98 obs
- Northern Cardinal98 obs
- American Robin92 obs
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander90 obs
- Monarch81 obs
- Eastern Cottontail72 obs
- House Finch72 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle69 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/130047982
Day trips start here
- Roanoke · 25 mi
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