Below Dam Recreation Area
Below Dam Recreation Area is a park in South Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 62 m. Graves Mountain stands 251 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Below Dam Recreation Area (South Carolina), a park 0.2 miles away. Savannah River Scenic Byway passes 1.7 miles off. 7 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 62 m
How to reach it
- 1.7 mi off the Savannah River Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Below Dam Recreation Area (South Carolina): 0.2 mi
- Lake Thurmond Visitor Center Dive Site: 0.6 mi
- Thurmond Lake and Visitors Center and Scuba Park: 0.6 mi
- Thurmond Lake and Visitor Center Park: 0.7 mi
- Clarks Hill Recreation Area: 1.3 mi
- Columbia County Military Memorial Wall: 8.4 mi
- Blue Star Memorial By-Way: 9.4 mi
- Marshall Monument: 10.2 mi
- Taxadium Distichum Bald Cypress: 11.8 mi
- Danny Goodale Memorial Recreation Center: 13.6 mi
- Take Flight: 5.2 mi
- Savannah Rapids Love Locks: 11.7 mi
- Tower of Aspiration: 17.8 mi
- And They Went Down Both into the Water: 17.8 mi
- Lucy Craft Laney: 18.0 mi
- CSRA Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 10.5 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 10.5 mi
- The Terrace: 14.7 mi
- Village Fruit and Vegetable Garden: 17.0 mi
- Boardman Family Garden: 17.7 mi
- Burks Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Carey Hill: 5.2 mi
- Poverty Hill: 12.4 mi
- Mount Carmel: 12.8 mi
- Graves Mountain: 19.7 mi
- Amen Corner: 15.0 mi
- Augusta Cotton Exchange Building: 18.3 mi
- Old Academy of Richmond County Park: 18.7 mi
- Gertrude Herbert Memorial Institute of Art: 18.8 mi
- Augusta Exchange Club Fairgrounds: 19.2 mi
- Laurel & Hardy Museum: 17.9 mi
- Morris Museum of Art: 18.0 mi
- Lucy Craft Laney Museum: 18.0 mi
- Edgefield historical museum and play theatre: 18.1 mi
- Woodrow Wilson's Boyhood Home: 18.5 mi
- Christopher D. Spiller Longleaf Pine and Pollinator Trail: 1.0 mi
- Phinizy Swamp Nature Park: 23.1 mi
- Dooly Spring: 17.8 mi
- Powder Spring: 24.2 mi
- Hamburg: 18.6 mi
- New Savannah: 24.4 mi
- Sand Bar Ferry Bluff: 22.3 mi
- New Savannah Bluff: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Below Dam Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graves Mountain | WNW 287° | 251 m | 19.7 mi |
| Faulkner Mountain | NNE 29° | 195 m | 24.6 mi |
| Boles Mountain | NNE 25° | 194 m | 21.9 mi |
| Mount Carmel | WSW 254° | 156 m | 12.8 mi |
| Burks Mountain | SSW 205° | 142 m | 2.8 mi |
| Poverty Hill | ESE 121° | 130 m | 12.4 mi |
| Carey Hill | ENE 78° | 120 m | 5.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:33 | 19:08 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:06 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:54 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 16:47 | 17:25 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 46 | 49 | 56 | 64 | 71 | 78 | 82 | 81 | 75 | 65 | 55 | 48 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Clarks Hill 1 W, under a mile away.
- Eastern Bluebird10 obs
- Bald Eagle8 obs
- box elder8 obs
- Canada Goose7 obs
- Japanese honeysuckle7 obs
- Little Brown Jugs7 obs
- buttonbush6 obs
- American tuliptree6 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/357093291
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