Sweet Briar Museum
Sweet Briar Museum is a museum in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 254 m. Mount Pleasant stands 1,223 m to the north-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Train Station and Caboose, a museum 0.3 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 13 miles off.
The story
unincorporated community in Amherst County, Virginia, United States
Wikidata Q7655238, matched on coordinates and name (249 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 254 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 13.3 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 19.7 mi off the Lee's Retreat
Overlooks nearby
- House Mountain Overlook · 17 mi
- Buena Vista Overlook · 18 mi
- Chimney Rock Mountain Overlook · 18 mi
- White's Gap Overlook · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Paul Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Strode Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Kentucky Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Richardson Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Bear Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Constitution Tree Plaque: 9.3 mi
- Riverside Pool: 9.4 mi
- Even Post: 9.7 mi
- Odd Tree: 9.7 mi
- 1978 Garden Restoration: 10.1 mi
- Coolwell Park: 2.7 mi
- Izaak Walton Park: 3.6 mi
- Amherst Wayside: 6.6 mi
- Monacan Park: 8.9 mi
- Daniel's Hill Neighborhood Park: 10.0 mi
- Train Station and Caboose: 0.3 mi
- Amherst County Historical Museum: 2.6 mi
- Saint Paul's Mission School: 2.7 mi
- Monacan Ancestral Museum: 2.7 mi
- Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College: 9.5 mi
- Piano: 10.3 mi
- Metal Sculpture: 10.3 mi
- Lynchbug: 10.3 mi
- LOVE: 10.5 mi
- Mayor: 10.5 mi
- Randolph College Organic Garden: 9.5 mi
- HumanKind and Hill City Master Gardener Davis Instructional Garden: 9.8 mi
- Daniel's Hill Garden: 9.8 mi
- Daniel's Hill Center Garden: 9.9 mi
- Robert D Morrison Garden: 10.3 mi
- Packet Boat Marshall: 9.3 mi
- Riverside Park Historic Train Exhibit: 9.3 mi
- Point of Honor: 10.1 mi
- Model 1474 Gallion Roller: 11.1 mi
- Horse Drawn Road Grader: 11.1 mi
- Cow Camp Spring: 14.9 mi
- Hog Camp Gap Spring: 15.3 mi
- Wiggins Spring: 15.5 mi
- Lovingston Springs: 17.7 mi
- Rock Spring: 18.9 mi
- Carry Nature Sanctuary: 0.4 mi
- Hollins Mill Park: 10.3 mi
- Mt. Pleasant Roadless Area: 13.8 mi
- Fortune's Cove Preserve: 19.1 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain / Rockfish / Shields Gap: 20.3 mi
- Panther Falls: 15.3 mi
- White Rock Falls: 23.9 mi
- Apple Orchard Falls: 24.9 mi
- Wheeler Cliff: 19.2 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 23.5 mi
- J.H. Phillips Wayside: 18.4 mi
- Nelson County Wayside: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.2 miles of Sweet Briar Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant | NNW 339° | 1,223 m | 13.6 mi |
| Little Rocky Mountain | NNW 335° | 1,034 m | 14.0 mi |
| Little Mount Pleasant | NNW 341° | 946 m | 12.9 mi |
| Fletcher Mountain | NW 326° | 888 m | 13.6 mi |
| Little Friar | N 355° | 880 m | 14.0 mi |
| Tobacco Row Mountain | W 275° | 876 m | 6.0 mi |
| High Peak | W 275° | 876 m | 6.0 mi |
| Fork Mountain | NW 324° | 772 m | 13.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:28 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:03 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:15 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:21 | 17:02 |
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 | 37 | 40 | 47 | 57 | 64 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — TYE RVR 1 SE, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/367998589
Day trips start here
- Lynchburg · 10 mi
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