Bear Heaven Recreation Area
Bear Heaven Recreation Area is a park in West Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 1,105 m. Spruce Knob stands 1,482 m to the south-southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Bear Haven Day Use Area, a picnic site 0.1 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 8.7 miles off.
How to reach it
- 8.7 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 12.1 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 23.8 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
- 25.1 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Big Knob: 1.7 mi
- Stuart Knob: 1.7 mi
- Hertig Knob: 2.3 mi
- Bickle Knob: 2.8 mi
- McGowan Mountain: 3.8 mi
- Alpena Gap Recreation Site: 1.0 mi
- Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area: 4.6 mi
- Stuart Recreation Area: 5.1 mi
- Fernow Experimental Forest: 8.6 mi
- Davis Street Park: 8.8 mi
- High Falls: 12.1 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 12.8 mi
- Small waterfall: 14.3 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 14.5 mi
- Elakala Falls: 15.6 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 2.3 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 3.8 mi
- Pat Spring: 4.7 mi
- Harlan Irons Spring: 8.5 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 12.9 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 9.3 mi
- Wilson Monument: 9.7 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 15.0 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 16.5 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 16.5 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 9.2 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 12.2 mi
- Sites Homestead: 17.7 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 17.7 mi
- Covered Bridge Museum: 24.9 mi
- Mill Run: 9.3 mi
- Stringtown: 11.8 mi
- Gertrude: 18.9 mi
- Kempton: 21.8 mi
- Smoke Hole: 21.9 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 18.0 mi
- Lower Slabs: 18.1 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 18.1 mi
- Southern Pillar: 18.1 mi
- Eagle Rock: 22.1 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 13.8 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 21.0 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 22.8 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 0.1 mi
- Locust Springs: 23.9 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 16.3 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 19.4 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 9.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.7 miles of Bear Heaven Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Knob | SSE 153° | 1,482 m | 17.7 mi |
| Mount Porte Crayon | E 90° | 1,452 m | 12.0 mi |
| Green Knob | E 100° | 1,424 m | 12.8 mi |
| Pharis Knob | SSE 168° | 1,410 m | 13.3 mi |
| Haystack Knob | E 98° | 1,376 m | 13.1 mi |
| Horse Rock | SE 142° | 1,374 m | 15.5 mi |
| Weiss Knob | ENE 72° | 1,359 m | 14.1 mi |
| Job Knob | ESE 117° | 1,353 m | 9.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:18 | 17:01 |
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 | 25 | 28 | 35 | 46 | 55 | 63 | 66 | 66 | 59 | 48 | 38 | 30 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glady 1 N, 9 mi away.
- Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander25 obs
- painted trillium22 obs
- Canada mayflower21 obs
- Smooth Rock Tripe16 obs
- great rhododendron15 obs
- bluebead lily12 obs
- Wehrle's Salamander11 obs
- Solomon's plume11 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 node/356523179
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