Mowles Spring Park
Mowles Spring Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 384 m. Poor Mountain stands 1,141 m to the southwest, 6.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Salemm Dog Park, a park 1.3 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 5.5 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 384 m
How to reach it
- 5.5 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 25.8 mi off the Farm Heritage Road
Overlooks nearby
- Mill Mountain Overlook · 8 mi
- Mill Mountain Star Overlook · 8 mi
- Roanoke Mountain Loop Lookout · 9 mi
- Roanoke River Overlook · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Salemm Dog Park: 1.3 mi
- Ted Webber Park: 1.3 mi
- Lake Spring Park: 1.7 mi
- Salem Rotary Dog Park: 1.8 mi
- Rotary Park: 2.1 mi
- Twelve O'clock Knob: 1.4 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Little Brushy Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Lost Mountain: 5.1 mi
- Fort Lewis Mountain: 5.5 mi
- Eagle Crossing Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Via Field Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Destroyed Parking Lot as of 6/3/18: 3.9 mi
- Dan Wright Memorial: 4.9 mi
- Agatha Strother Lewis | Col. Elijah McClanahan: 5.6 mi
- Salem Museum: 2.4 mi
- Virginia Museum of Transportation: 7.0 mi
- Roanoke Pinball Museum: 7.4 mi
- Taubman Museum of Art: 7.5 mi
- Taubman Museum of Art: 7.5 mi
- The Solar Wind: 2.2 mi
- The Rock: 2.3 mi
- Merrill Gainer Statue: 5.2 mi
- Sculpture Garden: 6.0 mi
- Roanoke Firefighter statue: 7.1 mi
- Happy Hollow Gardens Park: 2.9 mi
- Havens Wildlife Management Area: 5.9 mi
- Carvins Cove: 9.7 mi
- Read Mountain Preserve: 11.1 mi
- Explore Park: 12.7 mi
- Dixie Caverns: 5.7 mi
- Norfolk Southern 8661: 7.2 mi
- Jupiter Missile: 7.2 mi
- Roanoke Star: 7.9 mi
- Eastern Continental Divide: 14.8 mi
- Mountain View Community Garden: 6.1 mi
- George Washington Carver Community Garden: 6.9 mi
- Dr. Robert L. A. Keeley Healing Garden: 7.3 mi
- Community Garden: 9.4 mi
- Beale Garden: 9.5 mi
- Dragon's Tooth: 8.4 mi
- Tinker Cliffs: 12.5 mi
- Lovers Leap: 17.2 mi
- Iranto Rest Area: 8.5 mi
- Troutville Safety Rest Area: 20.1 mi
- Virginia Rest Area Mile 158 South (I-81): 20.1 mi
- Bent Mountain Falls: 11.9 mi
- Camp Creek: 11.9 mi
- Howrytown: 15.7 mi
- Spring Well #25: 17.9 mi
- Smart View Recreation Area: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.8 miles of Mowles Spring Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poor Mountain | SW 222° | 1,141 m | 6.4 mi |
| Sinking Creek Mountain | NNW 329° | 1,117 m | 13.6 mi |
| Chimney Rock | NW 326° | 1,108 m | 13.8 mi |
| Earn Knob | NNW 334° | 1,097 m | 13.4 mi |
| Cahas Mountain | SSE 163° | 1,083 m | 10.9 mi |
| Fort Lewis Mountain | WNW 302° | 998 m | 5.5 mi |
| Bent Mountain | SSW 192° | 975 m | 8.4 mi |
| McAfee Knob | NNE 14° | 974 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:25 | 18:58 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 20:06 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 07:09 | 18:45 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 16:26 | 17:07 |
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 | 41 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 59 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Roanoke-blacksburg Rgnl AP, 7 mi away.
- Mallard25 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron16 obs
- Virginia bluebells15 obs
- Wood Duck14 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly14 obs
- lesser celandine13 obs
- Great Blue Heron12 obs
- White-tailed Deer12 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/356593008
Day trips start here
- Roanoke · 7 mi
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