Beaverdam Wildlife Restoration Area
Beaverdam Wildlife Restoration Area is a park in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 706 m. Stony Bald stands 1,363 m to the southwest, 7.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Rice Pinnacle, a peak 0.6 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 2.7 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 706 m
How to reach it
- 2.7 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 11.1 mi off the Forest Heritage Scenic Byway
- 12.5 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 12.8 mi off the Forest Heritage National Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- French Broad River Overlook · 3 mi
- French Broad Overlook · 3 mi
- Sleepy Gap Parking · 3 mi
- View Chesnut Cove · 4 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Rice Pinnacle: 0.6 mi
- Scott Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Wolf Knob: 0.9 mi
- LR 606: 1.4 mi
- Little Hickory Top: 1.5 mi
- Hominy Valley Park: 2.0 mi
- Powhatan Recreation Area: 2.0 mi
- North Carolina Arboretum: 2.0 mi
- Buncombe County Sports Park: 2.6 mi
- Bent Creek River Park: 2.7 mi
- Bee Branch Falls: 7.9 mi
- Slate Rock Creek Falls: 9.0 mi
- Johnny Tiller Falls: 9.1 mi
- Bradley Creek Falls: 10.1 mi
- Lower Thompson Ridge Falls: 10.5 mi
- Ferin Fire Tower: 4.3 mi
- The Bunkum Stone: 7.2 mi
- Anne Penland: 7.3 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 7.4 mi
- Young Men's Institute: 7.4 mi
- Plant Professional Landscape Garden: 2.0 mi
- Holly Garden: 2.0 mi
- Stream Garden: 2.0 mi
- Quilt Garden: 2.1 mi
- Heritage Garden: 2.1 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 4.2 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 4.7 mi
- Ironland: 7.3 mi
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: 7.5 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 7.9 mi
- Statue of Diana: 5.3 mi
- E. W. Pearson: 5.6 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 5.8 mi
- TebbeArt Studios: 5.8 mi
- JMK236 Studio: 5.9 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 7.3 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 7.3 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 7.4 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 7.5 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 7.5 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 5.4 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 7.8 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 9.4 mi
- Shining Rock Wilderness: 15.7 mi
- Cold Mountain Gameland: 16.9 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 8.6 mi
- Jump Off Rock: 15.2 mi
- High Rocks: 18.0 mi
- Raven Cliff: 19.0 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 20.7 mi
- Crystal Spring: 16.2 mi
- Lenox Spring: 17.2 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 19.3 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 24.5 mi
- Whiteoak Spring: 24.5 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 7.5 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 9.6 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 17.1 mi
- Coontree Picnic Area: 17.1 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 8.6 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 8.7 mi
- Haywood County US 74 Westbound Rest Area: 23.7 mi
- Haywood County US 74 Eastbound Rest Area: 24.6 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 6.5 mi
- Covered Bridge Trail: 23.1 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 2.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.5 miles of Beaverdam Wildlife Restoration Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Bald | SW 223° | 1,363 m | 7.2 mi |
| Fork Mountain | SW 222° | 1,221 m | 5.7 mi |
| Shell Knob | SW 222° | 1,221 m | 5.7 mi |
| Ferrin Knob | SSW 207° | 1,211 m | 4.3 mi |
| Young Pisgah Mountain | SW 228° | 1,197 m | 4.5 mi |
| The Pinnacle | NW 307° | 1,186 m | 7.4 mi |
| Green Top | SSW 208° | 1,146 m | 3.5 mi |
| Rich Knob | SSW 207° | 1,128 m | 3.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:09 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:16 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:43 | 17:22 |
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 | 36 | 40 | 46 | 55 | 62 | 69 | 72 | 71 | 65 | 55 | 45 | 39 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 5.7 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Asheville 8 SSW, 2 mi away.
- fan clubmoss48 obs
- crane-fly orchid36 obs
- Christmas fern32 obs
- striped wintergreen32 obs
- mountain laurel28 obs
- bloodroot24 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail24 obs
- downy rattlesnake plantain24 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/357800701
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