Brandywine Recreation Area
Brandywine Recreation Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 584 m. Flagpole Knob stands 1,336 m to the south, 6.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Shenandoah Wildlife Management Area, a park 1.1 miles away. Camp Allegheny Backway passes 28 miles off.
Residing on the 10 acre Brandywine Lake, this wooded recreation area affords access to multiple hiking and mountain biking trails, a swimming beach, and a campground with an onsite host.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 584 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 28.1 mi off the Camp Allegheny Backway
- 27.8 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Cowger Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Heavener Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Evick Knob: 2.6 mi
- High Knob: 2.7 mi
- Brushy Knob: 2.8 mi
- Shenandoah Wildlife Management Area: 1.1 mi
- Skidmore Fork Scenic Area: 5.5 mi
- Skidmore Fork Scenic Area: 5.5 mi
- Franklin Town Park: 7.4 mi
- Thorn Spring Park: 8.2 mi
- Fort Harrison: 19.0 mi
- Memorial Garden: 19.4 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 19.7 mi
- Old Sexton Cabin: 20.1 mi
- Veterans Memorial Monument: 20.5 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 18.7 mi
- Sites Homestead: 18.8 mi
- Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center: 18.9 mi
- Bridgewater Historical Society: 19.3 mi
- Museum Of American Jewelry Design and Manufacturing: 20.7 mi
- Love Essence: 19.4 mi
- Reader's Guide to an Open Window: 19.5 mi
- Flames: 19.5 mi
- CON_Sequential Complex: 19.5 mi
- Guns into Plowshares: 19.5 mi
- Hall Spring: 6.0 mi
- Maple Spring: 6.2 mi
- Sand Spring: 7.5 mi
- Beaver Creek Spring: 13.5 mi
- Rock Lick Spring: 16.5 mi
- Raven Rocks: 6.0 mi
- Eagle Rock: 16.3 mi
- Southern Pillar: 18.4 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 18.5 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 18.5 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 6.2 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 15.2 mi
- Eagle’s Sugar Camp: 19.3 mi
- Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 22.8 mi
- Morning Glories and Moonflowers: 24.3 mi
- Blue Hole Day Use Area: 17.8 mi
- North River Picnic Area: 18.4 mi
- Mountain House Day Use Area: 22.0 mi
- Stonewall Ruritan Club Picnic Ground: 22.1 mi
- Locust Springs: 23.9 mi
- Heishman Garden: 19.4 mi
- ISAT Patio: 21.5 mi
- Edith J. Carrier Arboretum: 21.6 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 20.2 mi
- Small waterfall: 20.4 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 21.7 mi
- Mole Hill Acres: 16.9 mi
- Smoke Hole: 18.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.3 miles of Brandywine Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flagpole Knob | S 172° | 1,336 m | 6.3 mi |
| Slate Springs Mountain | S 173° | 1,332 m | 6.3 mi |
| Bother Knob | S 185° | 1,323 m | 6.4 mi |
| High Knob | SE 142° | 1,246 m | 2.7 mi |
| Dundore Mountain | SE 144° | 1,244 m | 6.0 mi |
| Cow Knob | NE 43° | 1,231 m | 8.7 mi |
| Meadow Knob | SSE 159° | 1,184 m | 6.9 mi |
| Oak Knob | SSE 155° | 1,175 m | 8.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:06 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
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 | 33 | 35 | 43 | 52 | 61 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 54 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Franklin 2 NE, 8 mi away.
- Pipevine Swallowtail6 obs
- moss phlox4 obs
- Northern Two-lined Salamander3 obs
- Eastern Newt3 obs
- Carolina horsenettle3 obs
- flowering dogwood3 obs
- viper's-bugloss3 obs
- bird's foot violet3 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 node/356523297
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