Dolly Sods Picnic Area
Dolly Sods Picnic Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 1,220 m. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the west-southwest, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Coal Knob, a peak 2.2 miles away. Northwestern Turnpike passes 26 miles off.
This small picnic area is nestled among the trees near the top of the Allegheny Plateau. Dolly Sods picnic area is located near the Dolly Sods Scenic Area and Dolly Sods Wilderness.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1220 m
How to reach it
- 25.5 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
- 25.5 mi off the Mountain Maryland Byway
- 26.3 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 29.1 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Coal Knob: 2.2 mi
- Breathed Mountain: 2.3 mi
- River Knob: 3.9 mi
- Skidmore Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Cabin Mountain: 4.5 mi
- Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area: 6.4 mi
- Potomac Wildlife Management Area: 6.8 mi
- Echo Park: 7.3 mi
- Petersburg City Park: 12.4 mi
- Dam Site Seven Park: 12.8 mi
- Lower Slabs: 8.8 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 9.0 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 9.0 mi
- Southern Pillar: 9.0 mi
- Eagle Rock: 10.1 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 7.0 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 18.8 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 19.8 mi
- Pat Spring: 20.9 mi
- Harlan Irons Spring: 21.1 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 12.4 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 12.5 mi
- Elakala Falls: 12.6 mi
- Douglas Falls: 14.2 mi
- Albert Falls: 14.5 mi
- Stony River Dam: 12.4 mi
- Stony River Dam: 12.4 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 14.5 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 14.6 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 15.8 mi
- Stringtown: 6.6 mi
- Smoke Hole: 8.2 mi
- Mill Run: 10.9 mi
- Kempton: 18.3 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 13.0 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 13.9 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 20.2 mi
- Moorefield Historic District: 21.9 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 6.3 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 8.5 mi
- Lost River State Park: 24.8 mi
- Sites Homestead: 8.8 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 9.0 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 17.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.2 miles of Dolly Sods Picnic Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | WSW 247° | 1,452 m | 5.9 mi |
| Green Knob | SW 228° | 1,424 m | 6.6 mi |
| Haystack Knob | SW 228° | 1,376 m | 6.0 mi |
| Weiss Knob | WNW 298° | 1,359 m | 4.6 mi |
| Job Knob | SW 234° | 1,353 m | 11.2 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | WSW 241° | 1,348 m | 10.1 mi |
| Bald Knob | NW 309° | 1,332 m | 5.0 mi |
| Cabin Mountain | NW 310° | 1,331 m | 4.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:54 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:07 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:17 | 16:59 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 36 | 46 | 55 | 62 | 65 | 64 | 59 | 49 | 39 | 31 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.8 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elkins 21 ENE, 7 mi away.
- mountain laurel35 obs
- great rhododendron30 obs
- red spruce30 obs
- fireweed30 obs
- Fringed Bleeding Heart26 obs
- striped maple23 obs
- american witch-hazel20 obs
- Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander17 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/356523519
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