Jockey's Ridge State Park
Jockey's Ridge State Park is a park in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Kill Devil Hill stands 28 m to the north-northwest, 4.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Mountains-to-Sea Trail Eastern Terminus, a park 0.3 miles away. Roanoke Voyages Corridor passes 3.7 miles off. 64 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 3.7 mi off the Roanoke Voyages Corridor
- 3.7 mi off the Alligator River Route
- 4.4 mi off the Outer Banks Scenic Byway, National
- 10.5 mi off the Pamlico Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Viewing Platform · 19 mi
64 named places within 25 miles
- Mountains-to-Sea Trail Eastern Terminus: 0.3 mi
- Dowdy Park: 1.1 mi
- Nags Head Town Park: 1.3 mi
- OBX Soccer Complex: 1.9 mi
- OBX Festival: 3.6 mi
- 1903/12/17 Sculpture: 3.9 mi
- Wright Brothers Monument: 4.0 mi
- First Flight Boulder: 4.4 mi
- Flight 1: 4.4 mi
- Flight 2: 4.4 mi
- Kitty Hawk Woods Coastal Preserve: 5.1 mi
- Roanoke Island Marshlands: 5.4 mi
- Roanoke Island Marshlands: 5.5 mi
- Kitty Hawk Woods Reserve: 8.6 mi
- Kitty Hawk Woods Reserve: 8.7 mi
- Engagement Hill: 0.5 mi
- Seven Sisters: 1.1 mi
- Kill Devil Hill: 4.0 mi
- Kill Devil Hills: 4.2 mi
- West Hill: 4.3 mi
- The Mother Vine: 3.2 mi
- Elizabeth II: 4.1 mi
- Lost Colony House: 4.6 mi
- Jumpmasters Trampoline Park: 5.1 mi
- Theatre of Dare: 7.8 mi
- Outer Banks History Center: 4.0 mi
- Herbert M. Collins Boathouse: 4.7 mi
- Pea Island Cookhouse: 4.7 mi
- Roanoke Colony: 4.5 mi
- Buffalo City: 17.9 mi
- Coquina Beach: 9.9 mi
- Bodie Island Lighthouse: 10.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Jockey's Ridge State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kill Devil Hill | NNW 332° | 28 m | 4.0 mi |
| West Hill | NNW 329° | 14 m | 4.3 mi |
| Engagement Hill | W 279° | 6 m | 0.5 mi |
| Seven Sisters | SSE 151° | 5 m | 1.1 mi |
| Kill Devil Hills | NNW 334° | 2 m | 4.2 mi |
| Poyners Hill | NNW 337° | 2 m | 23.3 mi |
| Lagerhead Hills | SSE 159° | 1 m | 23.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:41 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 19:45 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:27 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 16:13 | 16:53 |
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 | 43 | 45 | 51 | 60 | 67 | 76 | 80 | 78 | 74 | 65 | 55 | 48 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 4.5 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Manteo AP, 5 mi away.
- Atlantic Ghost Crab153 obs
- Laughing Gull117 obs
- Sanderling83 obs
- Blood Ark82 obs
- American persimmon74 obs
- largeleaf pennywort67 obs
- Brown Pelican64 obs
- saw greenbrier60 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.
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