Houston Valley ORV Area
Houston Valley ORV Area is a park in Georgia, at a recorded elevation of 358 m. Fort Mountain stands 868 m to the east, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Belmont Mountain, a peak 5.4 miles away. Ridge and Valley Scenic Byway passes 7.1 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 358 m
How to reach it
- 7.1 mi off the Ridge and Valley Scenic Byway
- 16.3 mi off the Cohutta-Chattahoochee Scenic Byway
- 17.8 mi off the Lookout Mountain Parkway
Overlooks nearby
- The Overlook · 19 mi
- Sunset Rock · 20 mi
- Point Park Tour Stop #2 - Parrott Gun Overlook · 20 mi
- Point Park Tour Stop #4 - Western Overlook & Wauhatchie · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Belmont Mountain: 5.4 mi
- Blue Mountain: 5.8 mi
- Beaumont Mountain: 5.9 mi
- Rocky Face Mountain: 6.3 mi
- Dug Mountain: 6.7 mi
- Civitan Park: 7.3 mi
- Rocky Face Ridge Park: 8.1 mi
- Haig Mill Lake Park: 8.2 mi
- Brookwood Park: 8.3 mi
- Harmon Field: 8.4 mi
- Rifle: 9.7 mi
- Memorial Wall: 9.7 mi
- Georgia 4th Cavalry: 11.6 mi
- Smith Monument: 11.8 mi
- Heg Monument: 11.8 mi
- Potato Hill Civil War Battlefield Park: 9.2 mi
- Brotherton House: 12.5 mi
- Snodgrass House: 13.4 mi
- Brainard Optimist Drag Strip: 14.6 mi
- Scrambler: 15.4 mi
- Whitfield County Historical Museum: 8.6 mi
- Old Stone Church: 9.4 mi
- Dr Steve's Place-Medical Msm: 9.8 mi
- Walker County Regional Heritage Museum: 11.5 mi
- Sixth Cavalry Museum: 13.9 mi
- See Rock City: 7.3 mi
- Face: 16.5 mi
- Little Sister of Liberty: 17.4 mi
- Summertime (Art in Neighborhoods bus stop wrap): 18.7 mi
- Summertime: 18.7 mi
- Rocky Face: 7.1 mi
- Rocky Face: 7.3 mi
- Rocky Face: 7.5 mi
- Flatrock Point: 12.7 mi
- High Point: 15.7 mi
- Keown Falls North 35: 11.4 mi
- Keown Falls South 25: 11.5 mi
- Lula Lake Falls 30: 17.7 mi
- Lula Falls 100: 17.7 mi
- High Falls: 18.6 mi
- Audubon Acres: 15.7 mi
- Elise Chapin Wildlife Sanctuary: 15.7 mi
- John's Mountain WMA: 16.5 mi
- Bauxite Ridge: 18.3 mi
- Cloudland Canyon State Park: 19.2 mi
- Windwood Bulk Center: 11.1 mi
- Jo Lawrence Memorial Garden: 16.1 mi
- Rock City Gardens: 18.7 mi
- Garden of Prayer: 19.5 mi
- Sensory Garden: 21.0 mi
- Wright Mineral Spring: 10.2 mi
- Crawfish Spring: 11.5 mi
- Blue Hole: 13.2 mi
- Straight Spring: 18.5 mi
- Anderson Spring: 18.6 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 16.5 mi
- Picnic and Grill sites: 20.5 mi
- Picnic Grove: 20.7 mi
- Picnic Area: 22.3 mi
- Picnic Area #2: 22.4 mi
- Georgia Visitor Information Center - I 75 South: 12.4 mi
- Rest Area #35: 17.9 mi
- Chickamauga Dam Beach: 22.9 mi
- Booker T. Washington Park Beach: 23.5 mi
- Everett Springs: 19.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.5 miles of Houston Valley ORV Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Mountain | E 89° | 868 m | 23.6 mi |
| Cohutta Mountain | E 94° | 841 m | 23.4 mi |
| Chestnut Knob | E 95° | 677 m | 24.4 mi |
| Gulf Mountain | WSW 242° | 659 m | 22.3 mi |
| Round Top | WNW 285° | 647 m | 16.4 mi |
| Pigeon Mountain | WSW 240° | 566 m | 17.5 mi |
| Raccoon Mountain | NW 321° | 563 m | 24.1 mi |
| Dug Mountain | ESE 116° | 553 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:45 | 19:19 | 19:52 |
| June solstice | 06:28 | 20:20 | 20:58 |
| September equinox | 07:29 | 19:06 | 19:39 |
| December solstice | 07:45 | 16:55 | 17:34 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 45 | 53 | 61 | 69 | 76 | 79 | 79 | 73 | 62 | 51 | 45 |
| Precip in | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 5.1 | 5.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chickamauga 2 SW, 12 mi away.
- butterfly milkweed4 obs
- Barking Tree Frog4 obs
- Common Watersnake2 obs
- Common Box Turtle2 obs
- Red Beard Lichen2 obs
- ditch stonecrop2 obs
- Coral-pink Merulius2 obs
- green comet milkweed2 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/358715796
Day trips start here
- Chattanooga · 21 mi
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