North Carolina Arboretum
North Carolina Arboretum is a park in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 665 m. Shell Knob stands 1,221 m to the west-southwest, 6.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Heritage Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 0.8 miles off.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 0.8 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 11.6 mi off the Drovers Road
- 12.2 mi off the Forest Heritage Scenic Byway
- 13.1 mi off the Forest Heritage National Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- French Broad Overlook · 1 mi
- French Broad River Overlook · 1 mi
- Sleepy Gap Parking · 3 mi
- View Chesnut Cove · 3 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Bent Creek River Park: 0.9 mi
- Powhatan Recreation Area: 1.4 mi
- Beaverdam Wildlife Restoration Area: 2.0 mi
- Hominy Valley Park: 4.0 mi
- Hominy Creek River Park: 4.0 mi
- Glenn Bald: 0.9 mi
- LR 606: 1.3 mi
- Lance Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Wolf Knob: 1.7 mi
- Rice Pinnacle: 1.8 mi
- Bee Branch Falls: 8.1 mi
- Slate Rock Creek Falls: 8.8 mi
- Johnny Tiller Falls: 8.8 mi
- Bradley Creek Falls: 10.3 mi
- Lower Thompson Ridge Falls: 10.7 mi
- Ferin Fire Tower: 4.5 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 6.9 mi
- The Bunkum Stone: 7.2 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 7.4 mi
- Anne Penland: 7.4 mi
- Heritage Garden: 0.0 mi
- Baker Garden: 0.0 mi
- Quilt Garden: 0.0 mi
- Stream Garden: 0.1 mi
- Miniature Railroad: 0.1 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 4.1 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 4.2 mi
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: 5.6 mi
- WNC Agricultural Center: 6.5 mi
- Ironland: 7.3 mi
- Statue of Diana: 4.4 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 5.8 mi
- TebbeArt Studios: 5.9 mi
- JMK236 Studio: 5.9 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 5.9 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 7.3 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 7.4 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 7.4 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 7.5 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 7.5 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 5.9 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 6.1 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 9.8 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 15.2 mi
- Bat Fork Bog Site: 15.9 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 6.8 mi
- Jump Off Rock: 13.6 mi
- High Rocks: 16.3 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 18.8 mi
- The Pinnacles: 20.1 mi
- Crystal Spring: 14.4 mi
- Lenox Spring: 15.3 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 18.1 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 23.7 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 23.8 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 10.1 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 16.5 mi
- Coontree Picnic Area: 16.9 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 6.7 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 6.7 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 7.5 mi
- Covered Bridge Trail: 24.9 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 1.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.7 miles of North Carolina Arboretum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shell Knob | WSW 240° | 1,221 m | 6.3 mi |
| Fork Mountain | WSW 240° | 1,221 m | 6.3 mi |
| Ferrin Knob | SW 234° | 1,211 m | 4.5 mi |
| Young Pisgah Mountain | WSW 249° | 1,197 m | 5.4 mi |
| Green Top | WSW 239° | 1,146 m | 3.9 mi |
| Rich Knob | WSW 236° | 1,128 m | 4.1 mi |
| Billy Cove Knob | WSW 249° | 1,126 m | 3.4 mi |
| Pine Mountain | SSW 211° | 1,121 m | 4.0 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 | 16:43 | 17:22 |
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 | 36 | 40 | 46 | 55 | 62 | 69 | 72 | 71 | 65 | 55 | 45 | 39 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 5.7 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Asheville 8 SSW, under a mile away.
- Eastern Fence Lizard257 obs
- Common Five-lined Skink244 obs
- Eastern Newt205 obs
- fan clubmoss194 obs
- fire pink179 obs
- Carolina sweetshrub177 obs
- mountain laurel171 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail169 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/4104047702
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