McKendreee Public Hunting and Fishing Area
McKendreee Public Hunting and Fishing Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 390 m. Boggs Knob stands 1,102 m to the east, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Dowdy Bluff, a cliff 0.4 miles away. Coal Heritage Trail passes 3.8 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 390 m
How to reach it
- 3.8 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail, National
- 12.0 mi off the Midland Trail, National
- 26.8 mi off the Farm Heritage Road
Overlooks nearby
- Concho Overlook · 5 mi
- Long Point Viewpoint · 12 mi
- Lover's Leap Lookout · 16 mi
- Hawk's Nest Overlook · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Garden Ground Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Stretcher Neck: 2.8 mi
- Turkey Spur Rock: 3.0 mi
- Beury Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Swell Knob: 3.5 mi
- New River Gorge National River: 1.4 mi
- Perry Park: 3.8 mi
- WP Point: 3.8 mi
- Brownsea Island: 4.3 mi
- Graney Memorial Park: 5.9 mi
- Dowdy Bluff: 0.4 mi
- Honeymooner Area: 11.3 mi
- Endless Wall: 11.3 mi
- Party Buttress Area: 11.4 mi
- Fern Point Area: 11.4 mi
- Stone Cliff Coke Ovens: 3.1 mi
- Walter Scott's statue: 3.8 mi
- Rush Run Coke Ovens: 5.0 mi
- Red Ash Coke Ovens: 5.0 mi
- Coal Miner Memorial: 8.0 mi
- The Canopy: 3.4 mi
- Hank’s Last Stop: 6.2 mi
- Ship Rock: 8.7 mi
- New River Gorge Canyon Rim Visitors Center: 12.4 mi
- The Mystery Hole: 16.6 mi
- Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine: 10.4 mi
- Youth Museum of Southwestern West Virginia: 10.4 mi
- Raleigh County Veteran's Inc: 10.7 mi
- Campbell - Flannagan - Murrell House Museum: 17.6 mi
- Hinton Railroad Museum: 17.7 mi
- Sandstone Falls: 12.5 mi
- Sandstone Falls: 12.6 mi
- Cathedral Falls: 19.3 mi
- Laurel Creek Falls: 22.4 mi
- Peters Creek Falls: 23.5 mi
- Grandview: 3.4 mi
- Needleseye Park: 6.9 mi
- Sugar Camp Run Picnic Area: 7.7 mi
- Brooks Falls: 15.1 mi
- Summersville Lake Lighthouse: 23.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.7 miles of McKendreee Public Hunting and Fishing Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boggs Knob | E 83° | 1,102 m | 15.5 mi |
| Myles Knob | ENE 67° | 1,054 m | 15.0 mi |
| Walnut Knob | E 82° | 1,049 m | 6.5 mi |
| Freezeland Mountain | SSE 154° | 1,040 m | 13.6 mi |
| Ford Knob | E 80° | 1,026 m | 11.1 mi |
| Irish Mountain | E 98° | 1,010 m | 15.1 mi |
| Fork Mountain | E 83° | 1,008 m | 13.9 mi |
| Swell Mountain | SSE 148° | 1,004 m | 15.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:29 | 19:02 | 19:36 |
| June solstice | 06:03 | 20:11 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:13 | 18:48 | 19:23 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:28 | 17:09 |
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 | 53 | 61 | 68 | 71 | 70 | 65 | 54 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — OAK Hill, 7 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of New River Gorge National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Jan and Feb; busiest: Jul.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
- Pipevine Swallowtail12 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail11 obs
- great rhododendron7 obs
- Eastern Newt6 obs
- Common Box Turtle6 obs
- red trillium6 obs
- large white trillium6 obs
- Variegate Darter6 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/356525519
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