Montford Park
Montford Park is a park in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 653 m. Rocky Knob stands 1,433 m to the northeast, 8.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Highland Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 4.1 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 653 m
How to reach it
- 4.1 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 6.5 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 10.8 mi off the Drovers Road
- 13.8 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Highland Park: 0.1 mi
- Magnolia Park: 0.4 mi
- Montford Recreation Complex: 0.5 mi
- Hummingbird Park: 0.7 mi
- Weaver Park: 0.9 mi
- Lookout Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Richmond Hill: 1.2 mi
- Beaucatcher Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Sunset Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Pleasant Knob: 2.3 mi
- Lake Louise Falls: 5.6 mi
- Reems Creek Falls: 6.0 mi
- Cascades Falls: 13.2 mi
- Douglas Falls: 13.4 mi
- Bee Branch Falls: 15.4 mi
- Giving Tree Memorial: 0.4 mi
- Riverside Cemetery Marker: 0.4 mi
- 1st U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery Marker: 0.6 mi
- Jeter C. Pritchard Historical Marker: 0.8 mi
- Anne Penland: 1.0 mi
- Elder & Sage Community Garden: 0.9 mi
- Griffing Rose Garden: 1.9 mi
- Burton Street Community Peace Garden: 2.0 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 4.6 mi
- Italian Garden: 4.7 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 0.9 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 1.1 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 1.1 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 1.2 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 1.2 mi
- Passage: 1.0 mi
- Flat Iron Statue: 1.1 mi
- Deco Gecko: 1.1 mi
- The Ties That Bind Asheville: 1.3 mi
- rooster: 1.4 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 0.5 mi
- Ironland: 1.1 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 3.7 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 4.2 mi
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: 12.2 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 1.9 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 9.2 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 12.9 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 13.7 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 8.9 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 15.7 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 20.4 mi
- Jump Off Rock: 20.4 mi
- Raven Cliff: 20.6 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 14.5 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 17.0 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 20.3 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 24.3 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 24.6 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 14.6 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 17.9 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 18.1 mi
- Crystal Spring: 20.8 mi
- Lenox Spring: 21.4 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 12.6 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 12.6 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 9.3 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 13.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.3 miles of Montford Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Knob | NE 56° | 1,433 m | 8.0 mi |
| High Swan | ENE 59° | 1,300 m | 7.4 mi |
| Rice Knob | NE 52° | 1,219 m | 5.5 mi |
| Big Cedar Mountain | ESE 119° | 1,159 m | 7.3 mi |
| Peach Knob | ENE 60° | 1,150 m | 4.7 mi |
| Elk Mountain | NE 50° | 1,122 m | 6.0 mi |
| Hayes Top | W 267° | 1,099 m | 7.8 mi |
| Butler Mountain | SE 133° | 1,086 m | 7.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:09 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:16 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:42 | 17:21 |
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 | 38 | 42 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 75 | 74 | 68 | 58 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Asheville, 1 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel193 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle186 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee170 obs
- American Black Bear158 obs
- American pokeweed150 obs
- Wild Turkey137 obs
- Little Sweet Betsy134 obs
- Porcelain Berry128 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/205854772
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