Fitzpatrick Park
Fitzpatrick Park is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 729 m. Huff Knob stands 1,088 m to the south-southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Skimkins Street Playground, a park 2.0 miles away. Coal Heritage Trail passes 1.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 729 m
How to reach it
- 1.0 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail, National
- 24.7 mi off the Midland Trail, National
- 25.6 mi off the Farm Heritage Road
Overlooks nearby
- Concho Overlook · 17 mi
- Long Point Viewpoint · 23 mi
- Lover's Leap Lookout · 26 mi
- Hawk's Nest Overlook · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Hecks Knob: 4.1 mi
- Lilly Mountain: 4.5 mi
- Shady Spring Mountain: 5.0 mi
- Batoff Mountain: 7.0 mi
- Pond Knob: 7.1 mi
- Skimkins Street Playground: 2.0 mi
- Wood Park: 2.2 mi
- Shoemaker Square: 2.3 mi
- Ewart Ave Park: 2.4 mi
- Sophia Little League Ballfields: 2.6 mi
- Beckley Mill Site: 3.4 mi
- Walter Scott's statue: 12.5 mi
- Stone Cliff Coke Ovens: 15.3 mi
- Rush Run Coke Ovens: 16.9 mi
- Coal Miner Memorial: 16.9 mi
- Dowdy Bluff: 12.7 mi
- Honeymooner Area: 22.7 mi
- Party Buttress Area: 22.7 mi
- Fern Point Area: 22.8 mi
- Endless Wall: 22.8 mi
- Raleigh County Veteran's Inc: 2.7 mi
- Youth Museum of Southwestern West Virginia: 2.7 mi
- Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine: 2.7 mi
- Hinton Railroad Museum: 17.8 mi
- Campbell - Flannagan - Murrell House Museum: 17.9 mi
- Ship Rock: 4.2 mi
- The Canopy: 13.2 mi
- Hank’s Last Stop: 14.1 mi
- New River Gorge Canyon Rim Visitors Center: 23.5 mi
- Grandview: 10.3 mi
- Camp Creek State Forest: 15.5 mi
- Needleseye Park: 16.8 mi
- Brush Creek Preserve: 20.9 mi
- Sandstone Falls: 16.2 mi
- Sandstone Falls: 16.3 mi
- Brooks Falls: 17.1 mi
- Sugar Camp Run Picnic Area: 20.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.9 miles of Fitzpatrick Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huff Knob | SSE 156° | 1,088 m | 11.9 mi |
| Ivy Knob | W 280° | 1,083 m | 16.0 mi |
| Flat Top Mountain | SSE 156° | 1,078 m | 11.8 mi |
| Bluff Mountain | S 181° | 1,069 m | 16.2 mi |
| Indian Grave Mountain | SSE 166° | 1,049 m | 10.9 mi |
| Walnut Knob | NE 52° | 1,049 m | 17.9 mi |
| Bald Knob | SSE 160° | 1,045 m | 10.9 mi |
| Freezeland Mountain | E 99° | 1,040 m | 13.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:29 | 19:02 | 19:37 |
| June solstice | 06:04 | 20:12 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:13 | 18:49 | 19:24 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:29 | 17:10 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 32 | 39 | 50 | 58 | 65 | 69 | 67 | 62 | 51 | 41 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Beckley VA Hospital, 1 mi away.
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander70 obs
- American Toad20 obs
- Eastern Newt15 obs
- Northern Cardinal7 obs
- Mourning Dove6 obs
- Blue Jay6 obs
- American Goldfinch6 obs
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird4 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/356516856
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