Little Fort Recreation Area
Little Fort Recreation Area is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 403 m. Hogback Mountain stands 1,056 m to the southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Woodstock Recreational Area, a park 0.1 miles away. Skyline Drive passes 11 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 403 m
How to reach it
- 10.9 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
Overlooks nearby
- Hogback Overlook · 11 mi
- Rattlesnake Point Overlook · 12 mi
- Little Devils Stairs Overlook · 12 mi
- Little Hogback Overlook · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Green Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Keller: 4.5 mi
- Opechee Peak: 4.6 mi
- Little Crease Mountain: 5.1 mi
- Waonaze Peak: 5.8 mi
- Woodstock Recreational Area: 0.1 mi
- Riverview Park: 2.6 mi
- W.O. Riley Park: 3.9 mi
- Shenandoah County Fairgrounds: 4.1 mi
- Shenandoah County Fairgrounds: 4.3 mi
- Indian Grave: 5.5 mi
- Van Buren Furnace: 9.7 mi
- Collie Grave: 11.6 mi
- 128th New York Monument: 12.1 mi
- South Carolina Monument: 12.2 mi
- Chalybeate Spring: 3.7 mi
- Edinburg Gap Spring: 6.9 mi
- Yellow Spring: 11.1 mi
- Sandstone Spring: 12.8 mi
- Hiden Spring: 13.0 mi
- Woodstock Museum Wickham House: 3.5 mi
- Woodstock Museum Marshall House: 3.5 mi
- "Connections" The Shentel Museum: 6.7 mi
- The Edinburg Mill: 7.4 mi
- Strasburg Museum: 9.6 mi
- Overall Run Falls: 10.0 mi
- Upper Overall Run Falls: 10.1 mi
- Greasy Falls: 11.5 mi
- Lands Run Falls: 14.0 mi
- Miller Falls: 14.0 mi
- Rattlesnake Point: 11.6 mi
- Markley Rocks: 11.7 mi
- Three High Heads: 12.7 mi
- Dog Cliff: 15.4 mi
- Hanging Rock: 18.9 mi
- Skyline Caverns: 12.5 mi
- Darkwood Manor: 13.9 mi
- Luray Train Depot: 14.1 mi
- The Garden Maze: 14.1 mi
- Luray Caverns: 14.2 mi
- Pavilian: 10.3 mi
- Dickey Ridge Picnic Grounds: 13.0 mi
- Picnic Area: 14.1 mi
- Picnic Area: 14.2 mi
- Pinnacles picnic ground: 17.7 mi
- Water Street Nature Reserve: 3.6 mi
- Eastham Park Trail and Front Royal Boat Landing: 13.0 mi
- Potomac Appalachian Trail Club: 14.7 mi
- Potomac Appalachian Trail Club: 14.9 mi
- Lost River State Park: 24.6 mi
- "Stonewall" Jackson: 13.9 mi
- Love: 14.2 mi
- Statue of Liberty: 16.0 mi
- Cootie Bug: 16.0 mi
- Warrior Statue: 19.7 mi
- W.O. Riley Park Garden: 3.9 mi
- Old grape garden: 11.6 mi
- Herb Garden: 24.5 mi
- Community Garden: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.8 miles of Little Fort Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hogback Mountain | SE 128° | 1,056 m | 11.7 mi |
| Mill Mountain | NW 307° | 1,006 m | 12.7 mi |
| Sugarloaf | SE 133° | 985 m | 11.5 mi |
| Sugar Knob | NW 310° | 976 m | 11.7 mi |
| Little Sluice Mountain | NW 308° | 951 m | 10.8 mi |
| Little Hogback Mountain | SE 127° | 940 m | 12.4 mi |
| Paddy Mountain | NNW 326° | 910 m | 11.6 mi |
| Knob Mountain | SSE 152° | 873 m | 10.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:18 | 18:51 | 19:26 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:03 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:37 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:14 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 34 | 42 | 52 | 61 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.3 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woodstock 2 NE, 3 mi away.
- striped wintergreen8 obs
- Carolina rose8 obs
- smooth sumac7 obs
- Spongy Moth6 obs
- mountain laurel6 obs
- box elder5 obs
- American cancer-root5 obs
- redring milkweed5 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/356572932
Day trips start here
- Shenandoah National Park · 25 mi
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