Grassy Creek Recreation Area
Grassy Creek Recreation Area is a park in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 103 m. Hagers Mountain stands 210 m to the west-southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Beaver Pond Creek Wildlife Management Area, a park 3.5 miles away. Lafayette's Tour passes 18 miles off. 94 named places lie within 25 miles, 3 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 103 m
How to reach it
- 17.6 mi off the Lafayette's Tour
- 25.0 mi off the North Durham Country Byway
94 named places within 25 miles
- Beaver Pond Creek Wildlife Management Area: 3.5 mi
- Longwood Public Use Area: 3.7 mi
- Merifield Wildlife Management Area: 5.4 mi
- Buffalo Road Park: 6.0 mi
- Cedar Grove Wildlife Management Area: 6.4 mi
- Mecklenburg County Veterans Memorial: 6.0 mi
- Blue Star Memorial: 20.1 mi
- Thyne Institute Memorial: 20.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 24.1 mi
- Halifax Veterans Memorial: 24.3 mi
- Clarksville Regional Museum: 6.1 mi
- Prestwould Plantation: 7.9 mi
- Henderson Institute Historical Museum: 17.6 mi
- South Boston - Halifax County Museum: 20.9 mi
- Person County Museum of History: 23.5 mi
- Old Soudan Wildlife Management Area: 5.0 mi
- Crooked Run Wildlife Management Area: 14.2 mi
- Banister River Wildlife Management Area: 17.9 mi
- Ledge Creek Forest Conservation Area: 24.9 mi
- I-85, Southbound - Granville County: 20.9 mi
- I-85, Northbound - Granville County: 21.0 mi
- I-85 Southbound Welcome Center & Rest Area: 21.7 mi
- Virginia Welcome Center: 23.1 mi
- Solitary Sentinel: 7.4 mi
- Joseph S. J. Tanner Environmental Education Center: 16.9 mi
- Granville Corn Maze: 19.6 mi
- Ivy Hill: 9.6 mi
- Bethel Hill: 17.5 mi
- Hagers Mountain: 21.4 mi
- Osage Picnic Shelter: 16.2 mi
- Picnic Area: 16.8 mi
- Picnic Shelter: 17.1 mi
- Occoneechee Plantation Terrace Gardens: 7.3 mi
- Seven Oaks Gardens: 18.6 mi
- Rosseechees Bluff: 6.3 mi
- Reminiscing: 19.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Grassy Creek Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hagers Mountain | WSW 256° | 210 m | 21.4 mi |
| Bethel Hill | W 264° | 192 m | 17.5 mi |
| Ivy Hill | ENE 69° | 120 m | 9.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:26 |
| June solstice | 05:57 | 19:58 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:39 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:23 | 17:03 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 42 | 50 | 59 | 67 | 75 | 80 | 78 | 72 | 60 | 50 | 43 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Clarksville, 6 mi away.
- crane-fly orchid3 obs
- Common Box Turtle2 obs
- Green Heron1 obs
- Carolina Wren1 obs
- American Crow1 obs
- Tufted Titmouse1 obs
- Northern Flicker1 obs
- Northern Cricket Frog1 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/357773904
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