Lowndes Park
Lowndes Park is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 418 m. Deen Knob stands 629 m to the south-southeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Duncan Hill, a peak less than a tenth of a mile away. Northwestern Turnpike passes 3.5 miles off. 23 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 418 m
How to reach it
- 3.5 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
- 17.1 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Hite Field: 0.4 mi
- Monticello Playground: 0.5 mi
- Hartland Park: 0.6 mi
- Stealey Park: 0.7 mi
- North Side Playground: 0.8 mi
- Duncan Hill: 0.0 mi
- Pinnickinnick Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Bald Knob: 7.1 mi
- Patton Knob: 10.0 mi
- Copeland Knob: 11.1 mi
- Jane Lew: 11.8 mi
- Robert H. Mollohan Research Center Tower: 13.8 mi
- WV Counties Monument: 15.5 mi
- Stonewall Jackson Memorial: 17.4 mi
- Stonewall Jackson Memorial: 17.4 mi
- Bice-Ferguson Museum: 8.8 mi
- Mountaineer Military Museum: 17.4 mi
- West Augusta Historical Society Museum: 17.4 mi
- Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center: 17.4 mi
- West Virginia Museum of American Glass: 17.5 mi
- Valley Falls State Park: 16.2 mi
- Stonewall Resort State Park: 23.9 mi
- Maniac Mountain: 17.4 mi
- Weston Historic Walking Tour: 17.6 mi
- Buckhannon Mural: 20.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lowndes Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deen Knob | SSE 148° | 629 m | 23.1 mi |
| King Knob | ESE 118° | 601 m | 14.5 mi |
| Bear Knob | SSE 169° | 570 m | 15.3 mi |
| Kincaid Knob | NE 54° | 544 m | 22.4 mi |
| Copeland Knob | ENE 78° | 541 m | 11.1 mi |
| Buckhannon Mountain | S 181° | 541 m | 21.7 mi |
| Purgatory Hill | S 186° | 538 m | 18.0 mi |
| Bald Knob | SSW 195° | 526 m | 23.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 18:58 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:12 | 20:52 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:45 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:38 | 16:20 | 17:02 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 41 | 52 | 62 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Clarksburg 1, under a mile away.
- ground-ivy29 obs
- Nosy Pill Woodlouse20 obs
- white clover14 obs
- American Robin13 obs
- common dandelion12 obs
- Red Clover12 obs
- Dryad's Saddle11 obs
- chicken of the woods10 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 way/852124229
Day trips start here
- Clarksburg · 0 mi
- Bridgeport · 5 mi
- Shinnston · 9 mi
- Weston · 17 mi
- Fairmont · 18 mi
- Grafton · 18 mi
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