Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area
Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 995 m. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the east-southeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Green Mountain, a peak 2.2 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 12 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 995 m
How to reach it
- 11.5 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 15.8 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 20.8 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
- 22.8 mi off the Cheat River Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Green Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Shavers Mountain: 2.5 mi
- McGowan Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Hog Knob: 4.2 mi
- McGowan Mountain: 4.7 mi
- Fernow Experimental Forest: 4.6 mi
- Bear Heaven Recreation Area: 4.6 mi
- Alpena Gap Recreation Site: 5.1 mi
- River City Park: 7.2 mi
- Nursery Bottom: 7.2 mi
- Elakala Falls: 11.3 mi
- Douglas Falls: 11.5 mi
- Albert Falls: 11.7 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 12.2 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 14.6 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 12.0 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 12.0 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 12.0 mi
- Wilson Monument: 13.2 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 17.6 mi
- Harlan Irons Spring: 6.0 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 6.9 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 8.4 mi
- Pat Spring: 9.3 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 9.8 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 11.9 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 16.1 mi
- Sites Homestead: 18.2 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 18.2 mi
- Covered Bridge Museum: 24.0 mi
- Mill Run: 5.6 mi
- Stringtown: 9.3 mi
- Kempton: 17.3 mi
- Smoke Hole: 21.6 mi
- Gertrude: 23.5 mi
- Lower Slabs: 18.5 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 18.5 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 18.6 mi
- Southern Pillar: 18.6 mi
- Eagle Rock: 22.2 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 10.8 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 17.5 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 11.9 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 21.0 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 4.5 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 11.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.2 miles of Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | ESE 113° | 1,452 m | 11.1 mi |
| Green Knob | ESE 120° | 1,424 m | 12.6 mi |
| Haystack Knob | ESE 118° | 1,376 m | 12.7 mi |
| Weiss Knob | E 89° | 1,359 m | 11.7 mi |
| Job Knob | SE 142° | 1,353 m | 10.8 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | SE 135° | 1,348 m | 9.7 mi |
| Bald Knob | E 84° | 1,332 m | 11.8 mi |
| Cabin Mountain | E 85° | 1,331 m | 12.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
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 | 31 | 34 | 41 | 52 | 61 | 69 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Parsons 3 SE, 6 mi away.
- painted trillium6 obs
- fan clubmoss6 obs
- Fraser Magnolia6 obs
- pink lady's slipper5 obs
- great rhododendron4 obs
- Wehrle's Salamander3 obs
- snow trillium3 obs
- intermediate wood fern3 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/356538826
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