Newport Recreation Area
Newport Recreation Area is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 571 m. Bald Knob stands 1,327 m to the northwest, 4.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Keister Hill, a peak 0.4 miles away. Farm Heritage Road passes 17 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 571 m
How to reach it
- 16.6 mi off the Farm Heritage Road
- 23.2 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Devil's Backbone Overlook · 28 mi
- Pine Spur Overlook · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Keister Hill: 0.4 mi
- Gap Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Julian Knob: 2.1 mi
- Clover Hollow Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Johns Creek Mountain: 3.7 mi
- Blacksburg Shooting range: 1.5 mi
- Deerfield Park: 3.9 mi
- Blacksburg Rotary Mountain Biking Skills Park: 4.1 mi
- Heritage Community Park & Natural Area: 4.6 mi
- Village at Tom's Creek Playground: 4.8 mi
- Winfrey’s Rock: 5.8 mi
- VTCC WW1 and April 16th Memorial: 6.2 mi
- April 16th Memorial: 6.2 mi
- The Pylons: 6.2 mi
- Prices Fork Research Center Building - Architecture - Former.: 6.3 mi
- Coal Mining Memorial Coal Carts: 5.0 mi
- Perspective Gallery: 6.2 mi
- Modern Art: 6.3 mi
- Modern Art: 6.3 mi
- Frank Beamer Statue: 6.8 mi
- St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall: 5.9 mi
- Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation: 6.5 mi
- Smithfield Plantation: 6.5 mi
- Montgomery Museum of Art and History: 12.6 mi
- Christiansburg Institute Museum: 12.8 mi
- Clover Hollow Natural Area Preserve: 3.0 mi
- Niday Place State Forest: 7.8 mi
- Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve: 8.2 mi
- Falls Ridge Preserve: 11.7 mi
- Sweet Springs State Natural Area Preserve: 15.2 mi
- Bear Cliffs: 4.3 mi
- Bear Cliff: 4.4 mi
- Barney's Wall: 7.2 mi
- Barneys Wall: 7.3 mi
- Dragon's Tooth: 17.5 mi
- Hahn Horticultural Garden: 6.6 mi
- Piedmont Vegetable Garden: 8.1 mi
- Radford Alumni Memorial Garden: 11.9 mi
- Volvo Break Area Indoor Garden: 20.0 mi
- Break Area Indoor Garden and Gazebo: 20.1 mi
- Keffer Oak: 6.9 mi
- Eastern Continental Divide: 11.6 mi
- Sapphire Ballroom & Dance Center: 12.7 mi
- Dixie Caverns: 17.3 mi
- Tingler's Mill: 22.0 mi
- Cascades: 6.7 mi
- Camp Creek: 21.1 mi
- Bent Mountain Falls: 21.1 mi
- Falls of Dismal: 24.3 mi
- Radford Safety Rest Area North: 14.3 mi
- Iranto Rest Area: 14.9 mi
- Junta: 24.4 mi
- Mercers Saltworks: 24.9 mi
- Haven Heights Picnic Site: 12.4 mi
- Water Front: 22.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.3 miles of Newport Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | NW 318° | 1,327 m | 4.4 mi |
| Butt Mountain | WNW 301° | 1,282 m | 8.9 mi |
| Lookoff Rock | WNW 301° | 1,256 m | 8.6 mi |
| Wind Rock | NNW 346° | 1,246 m | 7.9 mi |
| Wrights Peak | N 350° | 1,242 m | 12.2 mi |
| Brushy Top | NW 314° | 1,236 m | 8.8 mi |
| Lone Pine Peak | N 356° | 1,232 m | 7.3 mi |
| Salt Pond Mountain | N 356° | 1,231 m | 7.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 19:00 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 06:02 | 20:08 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:28 | 17:08 |
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 | 35 | 42 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 53 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Blacksburg Nwso, 8 mi away.
- Eastern Newt371 obs
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander275 obs
- Painted Turtle206 obs
- Canada Goose132 obs
- galax114 obs
- Northern Dusky Salamander111 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail107 obs
- fan clubmoss102 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/814271655
Day trips start here
- Roanoke · 30 mi
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