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North Park

North Park from directly overhead

North Park is a park in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 244 m. Kings Pinnacle stands 520 m to the west-southwest, 7.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Two Rivers Utilities Educational Garden, a garden 0.4 miles away. Crowders Mountain Drive passes 5.6 miles off. 20 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
244 m

How to reach it

Coordinates35.26569, -81.19147

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Rotary Centennial Pavilion: 0.4 mi
  • Erwin Park: 0.5 mi
  • Firestone Field: 0.6 mi
  • Optimist Club Park: 0.8 mi
  • Sims Legion Park: 1.1 mi
Artworks
  • Russel McConnel Memorial: 2.1 mi
  • Sculpture of Queen Charlotte: 14.3 mi
  • "Shuffletown Hand": 14.5 mi
  • Thánh Giuse: 15.0 mi
  • Ascendus: 15.5 mi
Attractions: 54
Historic sites: 49
Museums: 33
Nature reserves: 24
Gardens: 20
Peaks: 20
Beaches: 5
  • South Point Beach: 12.7 mi
  • Sailing Beach: 13.7 mi
  • SHOAL: 20.2 mi
  • SHOAL: 21.1 mi
  • Ramsay Creek Park Beach: 21.3 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Long Creek Falls: 3.7 mi
  • Little Long Creek Falls: 5.0 mi
  • High Shoals: 9.0 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • North Carolina Welcome Center: 18.4 mi
  • South Carolina Welcome Center: 19.0 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Carowinds Grove: 18.1 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of North Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Kings PinnacleWSW 240°520 m7.9 mi
Anderson MountainNNE 15°471 m21.6 mi
Crowders MountainWSW 244°458 m5.3 mi
Little MountainNNE 17°409 m23.2 mi
Hog HillNNW 335°391 m23.5 mi
Spencer MountainENE 63°375 m4.8 mi
Whitaker MountainWSW 243°356 m19.7 mi
Henry KnobSSW 207°344 m10.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2919:0319:37
June solstice06:1120:0620:43
September equinox07:1318:5019:23
December solstice07:3016:3817:17

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424653626977817974635245
Precip in3.83.33.63.53.54.33.54.53.73.43.03.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gastonia, 3 mi away.

  • Green Anole13 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel12 obs
  • Northern Cardinal11 obs
  • white clover11 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail10 obs
  • Red-shouldered Hawk9 obs
  • Brown Thrasher8 obs
  • DeKay's Brownsnake8 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357796768

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