Clarks Hill Recreation Area
Clarks Hill Recreation Area is a park in South Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 119 m. Graves Mountain stands 251 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Christopher D. Spiller Longleaf Pine and Pollinator Trail, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Savannah River Scenic Byway passes 0.6 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 119 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
How to reach it
- 0.6 mi off the Savannah River Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Thurmond Lake and Visitor Center Park: 0.7 mi
- Thurmond Lake and Visitors Center and Scuba Park: 0.8 mi
- Lake Thurmond Visitor Center Dive Site: 0.8 mi
- Below Dam Recreation Area (South Carolina): 1.1 mi
- Below Dam Recreation Area: 1.3 mi
- Columbia County Military Memorial Wall: 9.3 mi
- Blue Star Memorial By-Way: 10.7 mi
- Marshall Monument: 11.4 mi
- Taxadium Distichum Bald Cypress: 12.3 mi
- Danny Goodale Memorial Recreation Center: 14.9 mi
- Take Flight: 6.0 mi
- Savannah Rapids Love Locks: 12.1 mi
- Tower of Aspiration: 18.3 mi
- And They Went Down Both into the Water: 18.3 mi
- Lucy Craft Laney: 18.6 mi
- Burks Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Carey Hill: 4.6 mi
- Poverty Hill: 12.6 mi
- Mount Carmel: 13.7 mi
- Graves Mountain: 19.9 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 11.2 mi
- CSRA Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 11.2 mi
- The Terrace: 15.3 mi
- Village Fruit and Vegetable Garden: 17.4 mi
- Boardman Family Garden: 18.3 mi
- Amen Corner: 15.6 mi
- Augusta Cotton Exchange Building: 18.8 mi
- Old Academy of Richmond County Park: 19.2 mi
- Gertrude Herbert Memorial Institute of Art: 19.3 mi
- Augusta Exchange Club Fairgrounds: 19.7 mi
- Edgefield historical museum and play theatre: 17.1 mi
- Morris Museum of Art: 18.5 mi
- Lucy Craft Laney Museum: 18.6 mi
- Woodrow Wilson's Boyhood Home: 19.0 mi
- Augusta Museum of History: 19.0 mi
- Christopher D. Spiller Longleaf Pine and Pollinator Trail: 0.3 mi
- Phinizy Swamp Nature Park: 23.8 mi
- Dooly Spring: 17.3 mi
- Powder Spring: 23.0 mi
- Hamburg: 19.0 mi
- Sand Bar Ferry Bluff: 22.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Clarks Hill Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graves Mountain | WNW 284° | 251 m | 19.9 mi |
| Faulkner Mountain | NNE 30° | 195 m | 23.2 mi |
| Boles Mountain | NNE 25° | 194 m | 20.6 mi |
| Trisha Mountain | NNE 29° | 194 m | 25.0 mi |
| Mount Carmel | WSW 250° | 156 m | 13.7 mi |
| Burks Mountain | SSW 204° | 142 m | 4.1 mi |
| Poverty Hill | SE 127° | 130 m | 12.6 mi |
| Carey Hill | E 92° | 120 m | 4.6 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.
- mayapple28 obs
- mottled wakerobin21 obs
- dimpled trout lily20 obs
- Little Brown Jugs20 obs
- Virginia Springbeauty18 obs
- coral honeysuckle18 obs
- wild geranium17 obs
- wild comfrey15 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 way/1053835025
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