Havens State Game Refuge
Havens State Game Refuge is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 713 m. Poor Mountain stands 1,141 m to the south-southwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Brushy Mountain, a peak 2.6 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 11 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 713 m
How to reach it
- 10.9 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 20.4 mi off the Farm Heritage Road
Overlooks nearby
- Mill Mountain Overlook · 11 mi
- Mill Mountain Star Overlook · 12 mi
- Roanoke Mountain Loop Lookout · 13 mi
- Roanoke River Overlook · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Brushy Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Fort Lewis Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Cove Mountain: 3.7 mi
- Bear Knob: 4.1 mi
- Catawba Mountain: 4.4 mi
- Biergarten: 3.9 mi
- Whispering Pines Park: 4.0 mi
- Lake Spring Park: 4.1 mi
- Longwood Park: 4.6 mi
- East Hill Cemetery: 4.8 mi
- Via Field Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Eagle Crossing Memorial: 4.7 mi
- Audie Murphy Memorial Monument: 6.5 mi
- Agatha Strother Lewis | Col. Elijah McClanahan: 8.3 mi
- Destroyed Parking Lot as of 6/3/18: 8.7 mi
- Salem Museum: 4.7 mi
- Eleanor D Wilson Museum: 9.3 mi
- Virginia Museum of Transportation: 10.1 mi
- Roanoke Pinball Museum: 10.6 mi
- Taubman Museum of Art: 10.6 mi
- Havens Wildlife Management Area: 3.0 mi
- Carvins Cove: 7.6 mi
- Happy Hollow Gardens Park: 8.2 mi
- Read Mountain Preserve: 12.2 mi
- Falls Ridge Preserve: 15.4 mi
- The Rock: 4.3 mi
- The Solar Wind: 4.3 mi
- Merrill Gainer Statue: 9.2 mi
- Sculpture Garden: 9.5 mi
- Roanoke Firefighter statue: 10.2 mi
- Dixie Caverns: 7.0 mi
- Norfolk Southern 8661: 10.3 mi
- Jupiter Missile: 10.3 mi
- Eastern Continental Divide: 10.8 mi
- Roanoke Star: 11.6 mi
- Dragon's Tooth: 3.7 mi
- Tinker Cliffs: 9.1 mi
- Lovers Leap: 11.9 mi
- Bear Cliff: 22.1 mi
- Bear Cliffs: 22.4 mi
- Community Garden: 9.1 mi
- Beale Garden: 9.4 mi
- Mountain View Community Garden: 9.4 mi
- George Washington Carver Community Garden: 9.9 mi
- Dr. Robert L. A. Keeley Healing Garden: 11.1 mi
- Rowan Memorial Home Spring: 21.1 mi
- Old Sweet Springs: 21.2 mi
- Sweet Chalybeate Spring: 22.0 mi
- Spring Well #25: 22.7 mi
- Big Spring: 24.6 mi
- Bent Mountain Falls: 15.9 mi
- Camp Creek: 15.9 mi
- Beaverdam Falls: 23.4 mi
- The Cascades: 23.4 mi
- Middle Cascades: 23.7 mi
- Iranto Rest Area: 9.3 mi
- Troutville Safety Rest Area: 18.7 mi
- Virginia Rest Area Mile 158 South (I-81): 18.7 mi
- Howrytown: 14.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.2 miles of Havens State Game Refuge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poor Mountain | SSW 193° | 1,141 m | 10.1 mi |
| Sinking Creek Mountain | NW 324° | 1,117 m | 8.3 mi |
| Chimney Rock | NW 318° | 1,108 m | 8.5 mi |
| Earn Knob | NNW 331° | 1,097 m | 8.0 mi |
| Bruisers Knob | W 274° | 1,045 m | 12.8 mi |
| Fort Lewis Mountain | SW 231° | 998 m | 3.4 mi |
| Bent Mountain | S 179° | 975 m | 13.3 mi |
| McAfee Knob | NE 48° | 974 m | 5.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:25 | 18:58 | 19:33 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 20:06 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 07:09 | 18:45 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 16:26 | 17:07 |
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 | 38 | 41 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 59 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Roanoke-blacksburg Rgnl AP, 8 mi away.
- Common Box Turtle6 obs
- galax4 obs
- Red Salamander3 obs
- Eastern Fence Lizard3 obs
- Monarch3 obs
- mountain laurel3 obs
- downy rattlesnake plantain3 obs
- American Toad3 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/356572184
Day trips start here
- Roanoke · 11 mi
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