Dark Hollow Picnic Area
Dark Hollow Picnic Area is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 711 m. Garden Mountain stands 1,437 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Walker Mountain, a peak 0.9 miles away. Big Walker Mountain Scenic Byway runs past it.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 711 m
How to reach it
- On the Big Walker Mountain Scenic Byway
- 16.9 mi off the Mount Rogers Scenic Byway
- 18.4 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail - VA
- 19.5 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail, National
Overlooks nearby
- Big Walker Lookout · 5 mi
- Pinnacle Rock Overlook · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Walker Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Little Walker Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Griffith Knob: 2.0 mi
- Big Bend: 3.0 mi
- Browns Peak: 3.3 mi
- Withers Park: 6.0 mi
- Elizabeth Brown Memorial Park: 6.3 mi
- Burkes Garden Rural Historic District: 11.7 mi
- Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia: 12.1 mi
- Comers Rock Recreation Area: 15.3 mi
- This Way: 11.5 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 19.2 mi
- Peery & St. Clair Building: 20.6 mi
- Falls of Dismal: 21.1 mi
- Chestnut Creek Falls: 24.0 mi
- Comer’s Creek Falls: 24.4 mi
- Sharon Springs: 6.9 mi
- Big Spring: 16.1 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 12.4 mi
- Raven Cliff: 12.7 mi
- Smyth County Museum: 21.0 mi
- Historic Crab Orchard Museum: 23.3 mi
- Chestnut Ridge State Natural Area Preserve: 22.7 mi
- Pinnacle Rock State Park: 23.8 mi
- Big Walker Lookout: 4.9 mi
- Bluefield Love Sign: 19.2 mi
- New River Outdoor Adventures: 22.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.4 miles of Dark Hollow Picnic Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden Mountain | WNW 299° | 1,437 m | 14.2 mi |
| Hutchinson Rock | NW 305° | 1,348 m | 14.4 mi |
| Chestnut Knob | WNW 294° | 1,344 m | 12.8 mi |
| Greaver Benchmark | NNW 332° | 1,270 m | 9.3 mi |
| Ghost Knob | NW 310° | 1,250 m | 14.2 mi |
| Glade Mountain | SW 224° | 1,245 m | 13.6 mi |
| Gose Knob | NNW 327° | 1,244 m | 12.6 mi |
| Comers Rock | S 188° | 1,237 m | 15.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:29 | 19:03 | 19:37 |
| June solstice | 06:06 | 20:10 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:13 | 18:49 | 19:23 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:32 | 17:12 |
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 | 36 | 43 | 52 | 61 | 68 | 72 | 71 | 65 | 54 | 43 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wytheville, 8 mi away.
- autumn olive7 obs
- Dark-eyed Junco4 obs
- marginal wood fern4 obs
- partridgeberry4 obs
- Smooth Lungwort4 obs
- cardinal flower3 obs
- bloodroot3 obs
- Christmas fern3 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 way/806097990
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