Beaver Dam Wildlife Management Area
Beaver Dam Wildlife Management Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 1,005 m. Spruce Knob stands 1,482 m to the southeast, 9.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Beech Mountain, a peak 3.2 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 11 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1005 m
How to reach it
- 11.0 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 11.4 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 16.2 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
- 17.9 mi off the Back Mountain Backway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Beech Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Harper Knob: 3.7 mi
- Pharis Knob: 4.3 mi
- Yokum Knob: 4.9 mi
- Spruce Knob: 5.3 mi
- Alpena Gap Recreation Site: 8.8 mi
- Bear Heaven Recreation Area: 9.5 mi
- Stuart Recreation Area: 10.3 mi
- Beverly Historic District: 11.4 mi
- Davis Street Park: 12.7 mi
- High Falls: 5.8 mi
- Small waterfall: 9.0 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 9.0 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 10.0 mi
- Elakala Falls: 23.7 mi
- Pat Spring: 6.1 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 6.2 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 7.3 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 10.2 mi
- Locust Spring: 14.3 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 9.6 mi
- Wilson Monument: 11.4 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 13.3 mi
- Donald R. Gaudineer Memorial: 15.3 mi
- Camp Bartow Historic Site: 18.4 mi
- Southern Pillar: 16.7 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 16.7 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 16.7 mi
- Lower Slabs: 16.8 mi
- Eagle Rock: 20.7 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 15.4 mi
- Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 23.4 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 24.4 mi
- Rexrode’s Sugar Orchard: 24.4 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 24.8 mi
- Gertrude: 10.5 mi
- Mill Run: 16.8 mi
- Stringtown: 17.3 mi
- Smoke Hole: 21.5 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 11.4 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 13.2 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 16.3 mi
- Sites Homestead: 16.4 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 9.6 mi
- Locust Springs: 14.4 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 14.7 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 19.7 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 13.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.2 miles of Beaver Dam Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Knob | SE 130° | 1,482 m | 9.9 mi |
| Mount Porte Crayon | NE 51° | 1,452 m | 15.0 mi |
| Green Knob | ENE 59° | 1,424 m | 14.3 mi |
| Pharis Knob | SE 145° | 1,410 m | 4.3 mi |
| Kile Knob | SE 140° | 1,395 m | 15.9 mi |
| Haystack Knob | ENE 58° | 1,376 m | 14.8 mi |
| Horse Rock | ESE 106° | 1,374 m | 9.7 mi |
| Job Knob | ENE 57° | 1,353 m | 9.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:55 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 16:19 | 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, 3 mi away.
- Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander4 obs
- Ruffed Grouse2 obs
- Wehrle's Salamander2 obs
- yellow fairybells2 obs
- snow trillium2 obs
- shining firmoss2 obs
- Wood Millet2 obs
- Spotted Salamander1 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/356538801
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