Niday Place State Forest
Niday Place State Forest is a nature reserve in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 746 m. Bald Knob stands 1,327 m to the west-southwest, 8.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Lugar Hill, a peak 1.7 miles away. Farm Heritage Road passes 12 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Virginia Department of Forestry
How to reach it
- 11.8 mi off the Farm Heritage Road
- 22.6 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 26.2 mi off the Midland Trail, National
Overlooks nearby
- Mill Mountain Overlook · 27 mi
- Mill Mountain Star Overlook · 27 mi
- Roanoke Mountain Loop Lookout · 28 mi
- Devil's Backbone Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Lugar Hill: 1.7 mi
- Well Hill: 1.7 mi
- Gravel Hill: 2.4 mi
- Wolf Knob: 2.8 mi
- Harles Hill: 3.1 mi
- White Rock Recreation Area: 6.1 mi
- Potts Creek Wildlife Management Area: 7.2 mi
- Newport Recreation Area: 7.8 mi
- Blacksburg Shooting range: 7.9 mi
- Deerfield Park: 9.3 mi
- Audie Murphy Memorial Monument: 9.6 mi
- Winfrey’s Rock: 10.4 mi
- VTCC WW1 and April 16th Memorial: 11.2 mi
- The Pylons: 11.3 mi
- April 16th Memorial: 11.4 mi
- Perspective Gallery: 11.3 mi
- Frank Beamer Statue: 12.0 mi
- Coal Mining Memorial Coal Carts: 12.4 mi
- Ode to Jeff Gordon: 12.4 mi
- Modern Art: 13.5 mi
- Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve: 4.1 mi
- Clover Hollow Natural Area Preserve: 4.9 mi
- Havens Wildlife Management Area: 14.0 mi
- Falls Ridge Preserve: 14.3 mi
- Sweet Springs State Natural Area Preserve: 17.5 mi
- St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall: 11.0 mi
- Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation: 11.4 mi
- Smithfield Plantation: 12.2 mi
- Craig County Historical Society: 17.6 mi
- Christiansburg Institute Museum: 17.8 mi
- Bear Cliff: 6.7 mi
- Bear Cliffs: 7.1 mi
- Barney's Wall: 10.6 mi
- Barneys Wall: 10.7 mi
- Dragon's Tooth: 12.5 mi
- Keffer Oak: 3.2 mi
- Eastern Continental Divide: 5.4 mi
- Tingler's Mill: 14.2 mi
- Dixie Caverns: 15.5 mi
- Sapphire Ballroom & Dance Center: 18.2 mi
- Cascades: 9.9 mi
- Beaverdam Falls: 20.8 mi
- The Cascades: 20.8 mi
- Middle Cascades: 21.0 mi
- Camp Creek: 22.4 mi
- Old Sweet Springs: 18.6 mi
- Rowan Memorial Home Spring: 18.7 mi
- Big Spring: 18.8 mi
- Cove Creek Spring: 19.0 mi
- Sweet Chalybeate Spring: 19.4 mi
- Hahn Horticultural Garden: 12.0 mi
- Piedmont Vegetable Garden: 12.5 mi
- Radford Alumni Memorial Garden: 19.4 mi
- Community Garden: 24.8 mi
- Iranto Rest Area: 14.2 mi
- Radford Safety Rest Area North: 21.5 mi
- Haven Heights Picnic Site: 19.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.4 miles of Niday Place State Forest. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | WSW 249° | 1,327 m | 8.2 mi |
| Butt Mountain | W 263° | 1,282 m | 12.4 mi |
| Lookoff Rock | W 262° | 1,256 m | 12.3 mi |
| Wind Rock | WNW 283° | 1,246 m | 6.9 mi |
| Wrights Peak | NW 310° | 1,242 m | 9.1 mi |
| Brushy Top | W 270° | 1,236 m | 11.2 mi |
| Lone Pine Peak | WNW 282° | 1,232 m | 5.5 mi |
| Salt Pond Mountain | WNW 282° | 1,231 m | 5.5 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 | 07:33 | 16:27 | 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 | 43 | 53 | 61 | 69 | 72 | 71 | 65 | 54 | 43 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Union 3 SSE, 13 mi away.
- Eastern Newt45 obs
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander35 obs
- Spring Peeper18 obs
- downy rattlesnake plantain13 obs
- Northern Slimy Salamander8 obs
- Northern Gray-cheeked Salamander7 obs
- Common Box Turtle7 obs
- stag's-horn clubmoss6 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/717748462
Day trips start here
- Roanoke · 26 mi
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