Canaan Valley Resort State Park
Canaan Valley Resort State Park is a nature reserve in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 985 m. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the south, 6.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Bubbling Springs, a spring 0.9 miles away. Northwestern Turnpike passes 21 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 985 m
How to reach it
- 20.9 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
- 22.1 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 23.3 mi off the Mountain Maryland Byway
- 24.5 mi off the Cheat River Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Bald Knob: 1.3 mi
- Flat Ridge: 1.4 mi
- Cabin Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Weiss Knob: 1.9 mi
- Chimney Rock: 2.1 mi
- Dolly Sods Picnic Area: 6.3 mi
- Davis Riverfront Park: 7.7 mi
- Davis Park: 8.0 mi
- Tucker Boulder Park: 8.1 mi
- Potomac Wildlife Management Area: 10.6 mi
- Elakala Falls: 6.8 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 6.9 mi
- Douglas Falls: 8.3 mi
- Albert Falls: 8.6 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 14.0 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 8.7 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 8.7 mi
- Stony River Dam: 11.5 mi
- Stony River Dam: 11.6 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 17.7 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 0.9 mi
- Harlan Irons Spring: 15.4 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 15.5 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 16.8 mi
- Pat Spring: 17.9 mi
- Lower Slabs: 13.3 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 13.4 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 13.5 mi
- Southern Pillar: 13.5 mi
- Eagle Rock: 15.8 mi
- Stringtown: 2.4 mi
- Mill Run: 5.2 mi
- Kempton: 13.2 mi
- Smoke Hole: 14.2 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 7.3 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 17.9 mi
- Pleasant Valley Dreamrides: 23.4 mi
- Sites Homestead: 13.2 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 13.3 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 22.6 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 7.3 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 13.8 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 22.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.3 miles of Canaan Valley Resort State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | S 184° | 1,452 m | 6.1 mi |
| Green Knob | S 178° | 1,424 m | 8.2 mi |
| Haystack Knob | S 176° | 1,376 m | 7.8 mi |
| Weiss Knob | SSE 148° | 1,359 m | 1.9 mi |
| Job Knob | SSW 201° | 1,353 m | 11.1 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | SSW 204° | 1,348 m | 9.5 mi |
| Bald Knob | ESE 120° | 1,332 m | 1.3 mi |
| Cabin Mountain | ESE 119° | 1,331 m | 1.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:55 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 16:17 | 16:59 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 36 | 46 | 55 | 62 | 65 | 64 | 59 | 49 | 39 | 31 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.8 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elkins 21 ENE, 1 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer101 obs
- white meadowsweet96 obs
- balsam fir65 obs
- green false hellebore58 obs
- Monarch52 obs
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander48 obs
- common milkweed42 obs
- American Silver-bordered Fritillary36 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/398299381
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