Burkes Garden Rural Historic District
Burkes Garden Rural Historic District is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 937 m. Garden Mountain stands 1,437 m to the west-southwest, 4.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Ghost Knob, a peak 2.6 miles away. Big Walker Mountain Scenic Byway passes 7.2 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 937 m
How to reach it
- 7.2 mi off the Big Walker Mountain Scenic Byway
- 7.4 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail - VA
- 12.7 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail, National
- 20.0 mi off the Mount Rogers Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Big Walker Lookout · 7 mi
- Pinnacle Rock Overlook · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ghost Knob: 2.6 mi
- Gose Knob: 3.1 mi
- Hutchinson Rock: 3.2 mi
- Greaver Benchmark: 4.1 mi
- Garden Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Graham Recreation Park: 9.7 mi
- Parkview Heights Park: 10.1 mi
- Saint Lukes Cemetery: 10.4 mi
- Cavitt's Creek Park: 10.7 mi
- Graham Square: 11.3 mi
- Peery & St. Clair Building: 10.0 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 11.3 mi
- This Way: 12.5 mi
- Stone Arch: 21.9 mi
- Perdue Family Crest: 23.2 mi
- Historic Crab Orchard Museum: 12.9 mi
- Smyth County Museum: 20.7 mi
- Mercer County War Museum: 22.7 mi
- Mercer County Agricultural Museum: 23.5 mi
- Princeton Railroad Museum: 23.5 mi
- Pinnacle Rock State Park: 15.4 mi
- Chestnut Ridge State Natural Area Preserve: 22.6 mi
- Clinch Mountian: 24.3 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 23.0 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 24.1 mi
- Raven Cliff: 24.3 mi
- Sharon Springs: 4.8 mi
- Big Spring: 13.5 mi
- Big Walker Lookout: 7.3 mi
- Bluefield Love Sign: 11.3 mi
- Hix: 18.3 mi
- City Garden: 22.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.6 miles of Burkes Garden Rural Historic District. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden Mountain | WSW 253° | 1,437 m | 4.1 mi |
| Morris Knob | WSW 258° | 1,358 m | 15.5 mi |
| Hutchinson Rock | W 276° | 1,348 m | 3.2 mi |
| Chestnut Knob | SW 229° | 1,344 m | 4.2 mi |
| East River Mountain | NW 319° | 1,331 m | 6.2 mi |
| Chimney Rock | NW 325° | 1,304 m | 6.1 mi |
| Greaver Benchmark | E 87° | 1,270 m | 4.1 mi |
| Knob Mountain | W 262° | 1,270 m | 13.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:30 | 19:03 | 19:37 |
| June solstice | 06:07 | 20:11 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:14 | 18:50 | 19:24 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:32 | 17:12 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 33 | 40 | 49 | 57 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 61 | 50 | 40 | 33 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burkes Garden, under a mile away.
- Red-tailed Hawk15 obs
- Bald Eagle11 obs
- Wilson's Snipe9 obs
- American Goldfinch8 obs
- American Kestrel6 obs
- Loggerhead Shrike6 obs
- Red-headed Woodpecker6 obs
- Killdeer5 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/356585013
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