Allen Hills Park
Allen Hills Park is a park in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 217 m. Anderson Mountain stands 471 m to the northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Ribbonwalk Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Uwharrie Scenic Road passes 16 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 16.2 mi off the Uwharrie Scenic Road
- 23.9 mi off the Millbridge Scenic Byway
- 26.5 mi off the Crowders Mountain Drive
- 26.8 mi off the Rolling Kansas Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Nevin Regional Park: 1.2 mi
- Sugaw Creek Park: 1.5 mi
- Thereasea Clark Elder Park: 1.7 mi
- Friendship Sportsplex: 1.9 mi
- Derita Creek Park: 2.0 mi
- Historic Rosedale: 2.4 mi
- Graffiti Park: 3.2 mi
- Coal car: 4.0 mi
- Reedy Creek Nature Center: 5.9 mi
- Hodges Family Farm: 6.5 mi
- garden statue: 2.4 mi
- NoDa Cloud Wall: 2.7 mi
- Mural by Marcus Kiser: 2.9 mi
- Mural by Patch Whiskey: 2.9 mi
- Mural by Nico Amortegui: 2.9 mi
- McIntyre Skirmish: 3.1 mi
- Confederate States Navy Yard Marker: 3.9 mi
- Mecklenburg County Confederate Soldiers Monument: 3.9 mi
- William Ewen Shipp Monument: 4.3 mi
- Captain James Jack: 4.3 mi
- Rosedale House: 2.4 mi
- Discovery Place: 4.2 mi
- Levine Museum of the New South: 4.2 mi
- Bank of America Heritage Center: 4.4 mi
- Bechtler Museum Of Modern Art: 4.6 mi
- Ribbonwalk Nature Preserve: 0.5 mi
- Clarks Creek Nature Preserve: 4.6 mi
- Chantilly Ecological Sanctuary: 5.6 mi
- Evergreen Nature Preserve: 6.1 mi
- Shuffletown Prairie Nature Preserve: 8.4 mi
- 4 square garden: 2.4 mi
- Lake, Simpson, Dixon Gardens Sign: 2.4 mi
- Rosedale Arbor: 2.4 mi
- Memory Garden: 3.3 mi
- Sustainability Village Community Garden: 3.6 mi
- Capps Hill: 2.9 mi
- Berry Mountain: 15.4 mi
- Spencer Mountain: 16.7 mi
- Red Hill: 18.0 mi
- Reese Mountain: 19.2 mi
- Ramsay Creek Park Beach: 13.1 mi
- South Point Beach: 14.1 mi
- SHOAL: 16.4 mi
- SHOAL: 17.2 mi
- Sailing Beach: 18.0 mi
- North Carolina Welcome Center: 12.7 mi
- South Carolina Welcome Center: 16.0 mi
- I-85 Cabarrus County Rest Area: 17.0 mi
- I-85 Cabarrus County Rest Area: 17.3 mi
- Little Long Creek Falls: 22.9 mi
- High Shoals: 22.9 mi
- Long Creek Falls: 23.5 mi
- Carowinds Grove: 14.4 mi
- Cold Spring: 19.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Allen Hills Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Mountain | NW 322° | 471 m | 24.6 mi |
| Spencer Mountain | W 272° | 375 m | 16.7 mi |
| Jackson Knob | WSW 254° | 328 m | 20.7 mi |
| Reese Mountain | WNW 300° | 325 m | 19.2 mi |
| Nanny Mountain | SW 227° | 299 m | 21.8 mi |
| Berry Mountain | WSW 255° | 281 m | 15.4 mi |
| Capps Hill | W 280° | 244 m | 2.9 mi |
| Red Hill | SSE 148° | 228 m | 18.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:28 | 19:02 | 19:35 |
| June solstice | 06:10 | 20:04 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:12 | 18:48 | 19:22 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:36 | 17:15 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 46 | 53 | 61 | 69 | 77 | 80 | 79 | 73 | 62 | 51 | 45 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Charlotte Douglas AP, 9 mi away.
- Little Brown Jugs24 obs
- Northern Cricket Frog20 obs
- Green Anole20 obs
- Parrot's feather20 obs
- Pond Slider17 obs
- Fowler's Toad17 obs
- striped wintergreen17 obs
- Heavenly bamboo13 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/564392659
Day trips start here
- Charlotte/NoDa · 3 mi
- Charlotte/North Charlotte · 3 mi
- Charlotte · 4 mi
- Charlotte/University City · 4 mi
- Charlotte/Uptown · 4 mi
- Charlotte/Elizabeth · 5 mi
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