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Kanawha Riflemens Memorial Park

Kanawha Riflemens Memorial Park from directly overhead

Kanawha Riflemens Memorial Park is a park in West Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 186 m. Armstrong Mountain stands 702 m to the southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is East End Historic District, a park 0.2 miles away. Midland Trail runs past it. 38 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates38.33819, -81.62015

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • East End Historic District: 0.2 mi
  • Living AIDS Memorial Garden: 0.3 mi
  • Governor's Park: 0.3 mi
  • Capitol Complex Monument Park: 0.4 mi
  • East End Community Park: 0.4 mi
Peaks: 38
Historic sites: 15
Museums: 6
Gardens: 4
  • Governor's Garden: 0.3 mi
  • East End Community Gardens: 0.4 mi
  • Wedding Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Community Garden: 21.7 mi
Attractions: 2
  • Skyline Drive: 2.9 mi
  • Indian Rock: 12.5 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Grotto: 4.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Kanawha Riflemens Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Armstrong MountainSE 134°702 m23.9 mi
Johnson KnobSSE 148°675 m22.2 mi
Workman KnobSSW 203°599 m21.2 mi
Bird KnobE 94°555 m21.0 mi
Bee MountainS 178°530 m10.4 mi
Mount DesertESE 104°491 m13.7 mi
Independence MountainE 94°487 m23.9 mi
Beulah KnobE 81°463 m19.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3119:0419:39
June solstice06:0420:1520:54
September equinox07:1518:5019:25
December solstice07:4116:2817:10

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F353846576572767568574639
Precip in3.33.44.13.64.94.75.43.73.52.93.23.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Charleston - Yeager AP, 3 mi away.

  • Eastern Gray Squirrel80 obs
  • White-tailed Deer22 obs
  • Celandine Poppy20 obs
  • Virginia bluebells17 obs
  • Porcelain Berry16 obs
  • bloodroot15 obs
  • Carolina horsenettle14 obs
  • Monarch13 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/335762479

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