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Daniel Boone Wildlife Management Area

Daniel Boone Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Daniel Boone Wildlife Management Area is a park in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 746 m. Grandmother Mountain stands 1,408 m to the north-northwest, 7.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Chestnut Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Pisgah Loop Scenic Byway passes 2.8 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
746 m
Getting there

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Coordinates35.96624, -81.79372

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Waterfalls
  • Phillips Branch Falls: 1.3 mi
  • South Harper Creek Falls: 1.4 mi
  • Harper Creek Falls: 1.4 mi
  • Upper South Harper Creek Falls: 1.4 mi
  • Burnthouse Branch Falls: 1.9 mi
Parks
Artworks: 37
Attractions: 33
  • House Of Mugs (Collettsville Cup House): 4.7 mi
  • Stack Rock: 8.7 mi
  • Linville Caverns: 8.7 mi
  • Linn Cove Viaduct: 8.9 mi
  • Daffodil Flats: 11.1 mi
Museums: 22
Historic sites: 15
  • Mortimer memorial: 2.4 mi
  • Avery County Veterans Memorial: 11.2 mi
  • Law Enforcement Memorial: 11.2 mi
  • Old Blowing Rock Sewage Pump Station: 12.9 mi
  • Historic Town Limit: 16.1 mi
Cliffs: 14
Gardens: 11
Nature reserves: 10
Picnic sites: 8
Springs: 4
  • Bear Wallow Spring: 9.9 mi
  • Shanty Springs: 10.1 mi
  • Water Tree (Blackgum Springs): 10.7 mi
  • Gully Pipe: 11.1 mi
Beaches: 3
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.1 miles of Daniel Boone Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Grandmother MountainNNW 338°1,408 m7.2 mi
Beacon HeightsNNW 346°1,327 m8.3 mi
Little BaldNNW 334°1,307 m6.8 mi
Ball Ground MountainW 273°1,294 m6.0 mi
Gingercake MountainWSW 251°1,262 m5.7 mi
Cranberry KnobWNW 282°1,258 m5.2 mi
Camp Creek MountainWNW 287°1,254 m6.8 mi
Sitting Bear MountainWSW 245°1,248 m5.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3219:0519:39
June solstice06:1220:1020:48
September equinox07:1618:5219:26
December solstice07:3516:3817:17

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293138475561656459494034
Precip in5.03.95.45.96.06.46.25.86.55.04.24.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Grandfather MTN, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • mountain laurel12 obs
  • cardinal flower8 obs
  • Ghost Pipe7 obs
  • stalked puffball-in-aspic7 obs
  • Shrub Yellowroot7 obs
  • largeflower heartleaf7 obs
  • partridgeberry6 obs
  • Rose's heartleaf6 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357805415

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