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Linwood Park

Linwood Park from directly overhead

Linwood Park is a park in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 228 m. Kings Pinnacle stands 520 m to the west-southwest, 5.8 miles off. The nearest named place is All American Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Crowders Mountain Drive passes 3.9 miles off. 23 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
228 m

How to reach it

Coordinates35.24097, -81.21730

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • All American Park: 0.1 mi
  • Phillips Center and Park: 0.5 mi
  • Optimist Club Park: 1.4 mi
  • T. Jeffers Park: 1.6 mi
  • Firestone Field: 1.7 mi
Artworks
  • Russel McConnel Memorial: 3.5 mi
  • Sculpture of Queen Charlotte: 15.5 mi
  • Thánh Giuse: 15.7 mi
  • "Shuffletown Hand": 16.4 mi
  • Flash: 16.4 mi
Attractions: 53
  • F-4 Phantom II: 14.5 mi
  • METALmorphosis: 16.4 mi
  • Tidal Wave Bay: 18.1 mi
  • Hurler: 18.1 mi
  • Storm Surge: 18.1 mi
Historic sites: 49
Museums: 34
Peaks: 23
Nature reserves: 22
Gardens: 19
Beaches: 5
  • South Point Beach: 13.0 mi
  • Sailing Beach: 13.4 mi
  • SHOAL: 22.5 mi
  • SHOAL: 23.3 mi
  • Ramsay Creek Park Beach: 23.5 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Long Creek Falls: 4.6 mi
  • Little Long Creek Falls: 6.4 mi
  • High Shoals: 10.8 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • North Carolina Welcome Center: 18.9 mi
  • South Carolina Welcome Center: 19.1 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Carowinds Grove: 18.4 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Kings PinnacleWSW 247°520 m5.8 mi
Anderson MountainNNE 18°471 m23.6 mi
Crowders MountainW 260°458 m3.4 mi
Hog HillNNW 340°391 m24.6 mi
Spencer MountainNE 56°375 m6.9 mi
Whitaker MountainWSW 246°356 m17.7 mi
Henry KnobSSW 203°344 m8.3 mi
Jackson KnobSE 133°328 m3.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2919:0319:37
June solstice06:1120:0620:43
September equinox07:1418:5019:23
December solstice07:3016:3817:17

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424653626977817974635245
Precip in3.83.33.63.53.54.33.54.53.73.43.03.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gastonia, 5 mi away.

  • Eastern Gray Squirrel9 obs
  • Northern Cardinal8 obs
  • Red-shouldered Hawk5 obs
  • DeKay's Brownsnake5 obs
  • Brown Rat5 obs
  • Italian arum5 obs
  • House Finch5 obs
  • Mourning Dove4 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 node/357776989

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