Little River Wildlife Management Area
Little River Wildlife Management Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 900 m. Cheat Mountain stands 1,481 m to the west-southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Camp Bartow Historic Site, a historic site 1.4 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 1.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 900 m
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 1.4 mi off the Camp Allegheny Backway
- 2.9 mi off the Back Mountain Backway
- 7.3 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 6 mi
- Little Laurel Overlook · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Frank Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Rough Knob: 4.3 mi
- Burner Mountain: 4.8 mi
- Smoke Camp Knob: 5.2 mi
- Fork Mountain: 5.2 mi
- Widney Park: 1.8 mi
- Old House Run Recreation Area: 3.5 mi
- Camp Hidden Meadows: 4.5 mi
- Gaudineer Knob Recreation Site: 6.8 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 7.5 mi
- Camp Bartow Historic Site: 1.4 mi
- Donald R. Gaudineer Memorial: 6.9 mi
- Powerhouse: 10.7 mi
- Boiler House: 10.7 mi
- Cass: 11.1 mi
- Cool Spring: 4.7 mi
- Locust Spring: 9.1 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 17.8 mi
- Bolar Spring: 22.2 mi
- Pat Spring: 24.2 mi
- NRAO Science Center: 6.7 mi
- Charles P. Jones Museum: 13.7 mi
- Highland County Museum: 20.8 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 22.3 mi
- High Falls of Cheat: 9.0 mi
- High Falls: 17.2 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 22.8 mi
- Small waterfall: 23.0 mi
- Rexrode’s Sugar Orchard: 11.7 mi
- Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 12.2 mi
- Morning Glories and Moonflowers: 13.8 mi
- Eagle’s Sugar Camp: 18.4 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 7.4 mi
- Hayfields State Park: 22.0 mi
- Locust Springs: 9.1 mi
- Stonewall Ruritan Club Picnic Ground: 20.4 mi
- Allendale Nursery: 17.0 mi
- Raven Rocks: 17.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.3 miles of Little River Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheat Mountain | WSW 243° | 1,481 m | 12.7 mi |
| Thorny Benchmark | SW 230° | 1,481 m | 14.0 mi |
| Bald Knob | SW 235° | 1,476 m | 9.2 mi |
| Tygart Valley North | WSW 251° | 1,457 m | 11.7 mi |
| Beech Flat Knob | W 259° | 1,433 m | 9.8 mi |
| Snyder Knob | W 275° | 1,432 m | 9.3 mi |
| Mace Knob | WSW 247° | 1,425 m | 12.9 mi |
| Elleber Knob | SSE 152° | 1,401 m | 8.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:08 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 16:20 | 17:02 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 29 | 36 | 47 | 56 | 64 | 67 | 66 | 60 | 49 | 38 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bartow 1S, 1 mi away.
- Golden-backed Snipe Fly3 obs
- White-tailed Deer2 obs
- viper's-bugloss2 obs
- American Toad2 obs
- Solitary Sandpiper1 obs
- American Woodcock1 obs
- American Robin1 obs
- Barred Owl1 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/356538817
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