Gaudineer Scenic Area
Gaudineer Scenic Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 1,247 m. Cheat Mountain stands 1,481 m to the southwest, 15 miles off. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 1.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1247 m
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 1.6 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
- 3.9 mi off the Back Mountain Backway
- 7.1 mi off the Camp Allegheny Backway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 2 mi
- Little Laurel Overlook · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Gaudineer Knob: 0.7 mi
- White Top: 1.8 mi
- Hutton Knob: 4.0 mi
- Barton Knob: 4.7 mi
- Burner Mountain: 5.3 mi
- Gaudineer Knob Recreation Site: 0.7 mi
- Cheat Wildlife Management Area: 4.0 mi
- Widney Park: 5.7 mi
- Beckys Creek Wildlife Management Area: 6.6 mi
- Little River Wildlife Management Area: 7.5 mi
- Donald R. Gaudineer Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Camp Bartow Historic Site: 7.1 mi
- Powerhouse: 15.9 mi
- Boiler House: 16.0 mi
- Cass: 16.3 mi
- Cool Spring: 3.1 mi
- Locust Spring: 11.1 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 17.0 mi
- Pat Spring: 18.2 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 19.0 mi
- High Falls: 10.8 mi
- High Falls of Cheat: 10.8 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 20.5 mi
- Small waterfall: 20.7 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 23.2 mi
- Rexrode’s Sugar Orchard: 18.0 mi
- Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 18.1 mi
- Helvetia Village Historic District: 20.1 mi
- Morning Glories and Moonflowers: 20.4 mi
- Eagle’s Sugar Camp: 24.1 mi
- NRAO Science Center: 13.5 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 15.0 mi
- Charles P. Jones Museum: 20.3 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 20.6 mi
- Locust Springs: 11.1 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 22.8 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 0.1 mi
- Gertrude: 4.3 mi
- Raven Rocks: 12.6 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 21.0 mi
- Allendale Nursery: 23.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.9 miles of Gaudineer Scenic Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheat Mountain | SW 214° | 1,481 m | 15.4 mi |
| Bald Knob | SSW 201° | 1,476 m | 13.1 mi |
| Tygart Valley North | SW 218° | 1,457 m | 13.6 mi |
| Beech Flat Knob | SW 218° | 1,433 m | 11.2 mi |
| Snyder Knob | SW 227° | 1,432 m | 9.0 mi |
| Mace Knob | SW 217° | 1,425 m | 15.2 mi |
| Pharis Knob | NE 55° | 1,410 m | 14.1 mi |
| Elleber Knob | SSE 155° | 1,401 m | 15.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 16:20 | 17:02 |
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 | 29 | 36 | 47 | 56 | 64 | 67 | 66 | 60 | 49 | 38 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bartow 1S, 8 mi away.
- Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander51 obs
- red spruce30 obs
- greater whipwort29 obs
- mountain woodsorrel26 obs
- Wehrle's Salamander23 obs
- Scarlet Beebalm22 obs
- intermediate wood fern19 obs
- Monarch18 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/356523645
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