Fernow Experimental Forest
Fernow Experimental Forest is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 631 m. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Fork Mountain, a peak 1.4 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 13 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 631 m
How to reach it
- 12.9 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 16.5 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
- 18.3 mi off the Cheat River Byway
- 17.9 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Fork Mountain: 1.4 mi
- McGowan Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Skier's hillock: 2.8 mi
- Turkey Knob: 3.1 mi
- Green Mountain: 4.0 mi
- River City Park: 2.6 mi
- Nursery Bottom: 2.8 mi
- Mill Race: 2.9 mi
- Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area: 4.6 mi
- Blackwater Wildlife Management Area: 7.1 mi
- Douglas Falls: 9.4 mi
- Albert Falls: 9.5 mi
- Elakala Falls: 9.9 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 10.8 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 19.0 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 9.9 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 9.9 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 13.3 mi
- Wilson Monument: 15.2 mi
- Stony River Dam: 20.7 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 13.3 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 18.4 mi
- Generation Museum: 20.3 mi
- Covered Bridge Museum: 21.1 mi
- Sites Homestead: 21.9 mi
- Harlan Irons Spring: 3.5 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 10.9 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 11.3 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 12.3 mi
- Pat Spring: 13.0 mi
- Mill Run: 7.2 mi
- Stringtown: 11.5 mi
- Kempton: 14.5 mi
- Smoke Hole: 24.8 mi
- Lower Slabs: 22.2 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 22.3 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 22.3 mi
- Southern Pillar: 22.4 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 12.1 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 17.6 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 8.6 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 10.3 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 12.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.6 miles of Fernow Experimental Forest. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | SE 127° | 1,452 m | 14.4 mi |
| Green Knob | SE 132° | 1,424 m | 16.2 mi |
| Haystack Knob | SE 130° | 1,376 m | 16.2 mi |
| Weiss Knob | ESE 108° | 1,359 m | 13.6 mi |
| Job Knob | SSE 148° | 1,353 m | 15.1 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | SE 144° | 1,348 m | 13.8 mi |
| Bald Knob | ESE 104° | 1,332 m | 13.4 mi |
| Cabin Mountain | ESE 104° | 1,331 m | 13.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:09 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
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 | 31 | 34 | 41 | 52 | 61 | 69 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Parsons 3 SE, 2 mi away.
- red trillium26 obs
- Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander19 obs
- Creeping Foamflower17 obs
- Lettuceleaf Saxifrage13 obs
- woodland stonecrop12 obs
- creeping phlox12 obs
- pale jewelweed11 obs
- Solomon's plume10 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/356524610
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