Cato Park
Cato Park is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 313 m. Johnson Knob stands 675 m to the south-southeast, 25 miles off. Midland Trail passes 2.9 miles off. 39 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 313 m
How to reach it
- 2.9 mi off the Midland Trail, National
Overlooks nearby
- Kanawha Falls · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cato Park: 0.1 mi
- Bigley Avenue Little League Fields: 1.1 mi
- Elk River Trail Park: 1.2 mi
- Elk River City Park: 1.2 mi
- River Front Park: 1.3 mi
- Holmes Knob: 4.3 mi
- Bald Knob: 5.0 mi
- Tyler Mountain: 5.8 mi
- Malden Mountain: 8.9 mi
- Hammick Hill: 9.0 mi
- State Capitol: 1.7 mi
- World War 2: 1.7 mi
- The Roll of Honor: 1.7 mi
- The Block: 1.8 mi
- Shoney's Big Boy Museum: 1.8 mi
- Sunrise Bird Sanctuary Museum: 2.1 mi
- West Virginia Cultural Center: 2.8 mi
- West Virginia State Museum: 2.8 mi
- Frankenberger Art Gallery: 3.1 mi
- Nitro Wars Museum: 11.6 mi
- East End Community Gardens: 2.4 mi
- Governor's Garden: 2.9 mi
- Wedding Garden: 3.2 mi
- Community Garden: 20.1 mi
- Wallace Hartman Nature Preserve: 4.1 mi
- Coal River Nature Reserve: 12.0 mi
- Skyline Drive: 4.6 mi
- Indian Rock: 10.9 mi
- Grotto: 3.3 mi
- July: 19.4 mi
- Chestnut Point: 23.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cato Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson Knob | SSE 149° | 675 m | 24.8 mi |
| Workman Knob | SSW 199° | 599 m | 23.3 mi |
| Bird Knob | E 101° | 555 m | 22.2 mi |
| Bee Mountain | S 175° | 530 m | 13.0 mi |
| Mount Desert | ESE 113° | 491 m | 15.3 mi |
| Beulah Knob | E 88° | 463 m | 20.3 mi |
| Malden Mountain | SE 140° | 455 m | 8.9 mi |
| Carnes Knob | E 80° | 440 m | 20.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:04 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 06:04 | 20:15 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 07:15 | 18:50 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:41 | 16:28 | 17:10 |
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 | 35 | 38 | 46 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 46 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Charleston - Yeager AP, 2 mi away.
- Common Box Turtle17 obs
- House Sparrow12 obs
- Monarch10 obs
- red deadnettle9 obs
- Yellow Garden Spider9 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel8 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail7 obs
- Porcelain Berry7 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/356537366
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