North Charleston Recreation Center
North Charleston Recreation Center is a park in West Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 180 m. Workman Knob stands 599 m to the south-southwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Shoney's Big Boy Museum, a historic site 0.6 miles away. Midland Trail passes 3.9 miles off. 36 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 3.9 mi off the Midland Trail, National
Overlooks nearby
- Kanawha Falls · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Joplin Park: 0.8 mi
- Ruffner Memorial Park: 1.2 mi
- Second Avenue Park: 1.4 mi
- Glendale Park: 1.4 mi
- Danner Meadow Park: 1.6 mi
- Tyler Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Holmes Knob: 5.6 mi
- Bald Knob: 6.1 mi
- Malden Mountain: 10.2 mi
- Hammick Hill: 10.7 mi
- Shoney's Big Boy Museum: 0.6 mi
- State Capitol: 2.6 mi
- World War 2: 2.6 mi
- The Roll of Honor: 2.6 mi
- The Block: 2.7 mi
- Sunrise Bird Sanctuary Museum: 2.5 mi
- West Virginia Cultural Center: 3.9 mi
- West Virginia State Museum: 3.9 mi
- Frankenberger Art Gallery: 4.1 mi
- Nitro Wars Museum: 9.8 mi
- East End Community Gardens: 3.6 mi
- Governor's Garden: 4.0 mi
- Wedding Garden: 5.1 mi
- Community Garden: 18.3 mi
- Wallace Hartman Nature Preserve: 4.4 mi
- Coal River Nature Reserve: 10.0 mi
- Skyline Drive: 6.2 mi
- Indian Rock: 9.1 mi
- Grotto: 5.3 mi
- July: 20.1 mi
- Chestnut Point: 24.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of North Charleston Recreation Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workman Knob | SSW 194° | 599 m | 22.7 mi |
| Bird Knob | E 100° | 555 m | 24.0 mi |
| Bee Mountain | SSE 167° | 530 m | 13.2 mi |
| Mount Desert | ESE 110° | 491 m | 17.0 mi |
| Beulah Knob | E 88° | 463 m | 22.2 mi |
| Malden Mountain | SE 131° | 455 m | 10.2 mi |
| Carnes Knob | E 81° | 440 m | 22.7 mi |
| Big Knob | ENE 77° | 437 m | 19.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:04 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 06:04 | 20:15 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 07:15 | 18:51 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:41 | 16:29 | 17:10 |
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 | 33 | 36 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 71 | 75 | 73 | 67 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Charleston WFO, 3 mi away.
- Common Box Turtle14 obs
- White-tailed Deer13 obs
- Porcelain Berry12 obs
- ebony spleenwort9 obs
- American Robin8 obs
- Western Honey Bee8 obs
- red deadnettle8 obs
- Canada Goose7 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/379223999
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