Fort Pickens Monument
Fort Pickens Monument is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 369 m. Mast Knob stands 1,221 m to the southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Moon Hill, a peak 0.9 miles away. Little Kanawha Parkway passes 13 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 369 m
How to reach it
- 12.5 mi off the Little Kanawha Parkway
- 14.6 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 23.6 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Moon Hill: 0.9 mi
- Sugar Knob: 1.6 mi
- Cochran Knob: 1.7 mi
- Green Hill: 1.9 mi
- High Knob: 2.4 mi
- Bulltown Historic Area: 6.3 mi
- Falls Mill Access Area: 6.5 mi
- Bulltown Recreation Area: 6.7 mi
- Burnsville Lake Wildlife Management Area: 7.8 mi
- Riffle Run Recreation Area: 9.6 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 6.5 mi
- Gilmer County: 15.2 mi
- Old Hill Cemetary: 16.8 mi
- The National Exchange Bank Of Weston: 16.9 mi
- Fairyland Nickelodeon Movies: 17.0 mi
- Fidler's Mill - Historic Gristmill & Building: 5.3 mi
- West Virginia Museum of American Glass: 17.0 mi
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: 17.0 mi
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (West Virginia Hospital for the Insane/Weston State Hospital): 17.1 mi
- Mountaineer Military Museum: 17.1 mi
- Courthouse Rock: 3.5 mi
- Hanging Rock: 7.1 mi
- Raven Rocks: 22.2 mi
- West Virginia Wildlife Reserve: 8.4 mi
- Stonewall Resort State Park: 11.1 mi
- Cedar Creek State Park: 23.3 mi
- Tecumseh Falls: 9.5 mi
- Burnsville Waterfall: 10.5 mi
- Tenskwatawa Falls: 11.1 mi
- Helvetia Village Historic District: 14.4 mi
- Weston Historic Walking Tour: 16.9 mi
- Maniac Mountain: 23.7 mi
- Bulltown Swimming Area: 6.6 mi
- Bee Run Swimming Area: 16.0 mi
- Bulltown: 6.6 mi
- Bulltown Picnic Area: 7.0 mi
- Buckhannon Mural: 18.0 mi
- Biology Demonstration Garden: 23.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.5 miles of Fort Pickens Monument. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mast Knob | SE 128° | 1,221 m | 19.6 mi |
| Back Fork Mountain | SE 135° | 1,138 m | 19.2 mi |
| Turkeybone Mountain | SE 128° | 1,132 m | 17.6 mi |
| Blue Rock Knob | ESE 109° | 1,113 m | 18.8 mi |
| Beech Mountain | ESE 117° | 1,083 m | 18.6 mi |
| Bee Knob | SE 135° | 1,082 m | 17.3 mi |
| Potato Knob | SSE 157° | 1,077 m | 20.1 mi |
| Round Knob | ESE 122° | 1,073 m | 18.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 18:59 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 05:58 | 20:11 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:45 | 19:21 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:22 | 17:04 |
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 | 33 | 41 | 52 | 60 | 68 | 71 | 70 | 64 | 53 | 43 | 36 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 5.8 | 5.1 | 6.1 | 5.1 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rock Cave 2 NE, 9 mi away.
- One-banded Mason Wasp2 obs
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak1 obs
- Polyphemus Moth1 obs
- northern maidenhair fern1 obs
- Ghost Pipe1 obs
- Northern Paper Wasp1 obs
- Christmas fern1 obs
- red deadnettle1 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/356516997
Day trips start here
- Weston · 17 mi
- Buckhannon · 18 mi
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