Leigh Farm
Leigh Farm is a park in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 80 m. Bass Mountain stands 275 m to the west, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Garrett Road Park, a park 1.4 miles away. Colonial Heritage Byway passes 5.4 miles off. 37 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Durham Parks & Recreation
How to reach it
- 5.4 mi off the Colonial Heritage Byway
- 5.9 mi off the Football Road
- 8.7 mi off the Scots-Welsh Heritage Byway
- 14.4 mi off the North Durham Country Byway
Overlooks nearby
- #44 Racecar · 12 mi
- #12 Racecar · 12 mi
- Historic Grandstand · 12 mi
- Trading Path View · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Garrett Road Park: 1.4 mi
- Chapel Hill Road Park: 1.6 mi
- Ephesus Park: 1.8 mi
- Dog Park: 1.8 mi
- Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery: 2.1 mi
- Plaid Cow: 2.2 mi
- Tatanka: 3.0 mi
- Exhale: 4.2 mi
- Bolin Creek Trail: 4.3 mi
- James B. Duke: 6.0 mi
- Laurel Hill Nature Preserve: 3.2 mi
- William L. Hunt Arboretum: 3.7 mi
- Parker Preserve: 3.8 mi
- Hollow Rock Preserve: 3.9 mi
- Adams Tract: 5.0 mi
- Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower: 3.8 mi
- Old Well: 3.8 mi
- Boxyard RTP: 6.5 mi
- 11-foot-8 Bridge: 6.7 mi
- Bennett Place: 7.3 mi
- Kemp Plummer Battle Bench: 3.0 mi
- Hippol Castle: 3.0 mi
- Unsung Founders Memorial: 3.9 mi
- Joseph Caldwell Monument: 3.9 mi
- Old Powerline Mill: 6.1 mi
- Nunn Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Piney Mountain: 4.7 mi
- Iron Mine Hill: 4.8 mi
- High Hill: 5.0 mi
- Edwards Mountain: 6.5 mi
- Carolina Basketball Museum: 3.6 mi
- Morehead Planetarium: 3.8 mi
- Ackland Art Museum: 4.0 mi
- Nasher Museum of Art: 6.1 mi
- The History Hub Museum: 6.8 mi
- Poisonous Plant Garden: 3.2 mi
- Herb Garden: 3.2 mi
- Coker Arboretum: 3.7 mi
- Alumni Sculpture Garden: 4.0 mi
- Sam W. Hitt Medicinal Plant Garden: 4.1 mi
- Large Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 5.7 mi
- Small Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 5.7 mi
- White Oak Recreation Area: 12.9 mi
- Youth camp tables, fire pit, wood storage: 13.3 mi
- Lake Johnson Shelter 4: 18.8 mi
- Bobbit's Hole: 8.8 mi
- Crosswinds Beach: 12.4 mi
- White Oak Beach: 12.7 mi
- Parker's Creek Beach: 12.9 mi
- Seaforth Beach: 13.9 mi
- Hollow Rock: 4.2 mi
- Kodak Rock: 8.5 mi
- Coon rock, Jumping rock: 12.5 mi
- Cedar Falls: 3.6 mi
- Moosejaw Falls: 15.2 mi
- Ye Olde Valley Spring: 9.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Leigh Farm. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bass Mountain | W 274° | 275 m | 23.1 mi |
| Occoneechee Mountain | NW 321° | 261 m | 12.3 mi |
| Glenns Mountain | N 11° | 244 m | 23.8 mi |
| Red Mountain | N 10° | 243 m | 22.2 mi |
| Pickards Mountain | WNW 286° | 237 m | 10.2 mi |
| Brown Elfin Knob | NW 323° | 234 m | 12.1 mi |
| Bald Mountain | WNW 297° | 232 m | 8.0 mi |
| Terrells Mountain | WSW 249° | 232 m | 11.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:20 | 18:54 | 19:28 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 19:58 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:14 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:27 | 17:06 |
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 | 44 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 76 | 80 | 78 | 72 | 61 | 51 | 44 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chapel Hill Williams AP, 5 mi away.
- Green Anole109 obs
- lesser celandine106 obs
- White-tailed Deer81 obs
- Green Treefrog78 obs
- Cope's Gray Tree Frog71 obs
- American sweetgum70 obs
- common pawpaw70 obs
- Canada Goose68 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/33101567
Day trips start here
- Chapel Hill · 3 mi
- Research Triangle · 11 mi
- Raleigh · 20 mi
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