Powhatan Recreation Area
Powhatan Recreation Area is a park in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 695 m. Candler Knob stands 1,381 m to the west-southwest, 7.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Lake Powhatan Beach, a beach 0.4 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 1.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 695 m
How to reach it
- 1.0 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 10.9 mi off the Forest Heritage Scenic Byway
- 11.8 mi off the Forest Heritage National Scenic Byway, National
- 12.8 mi off the Drovers Road
Overlooks nearby
- Sleepy Gap Parking · 1 mi
- View Chesnut Cove · 2 mi
- Chestnut Cove Overlook · 2 mi
- French Broad Overlook · 2 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- LR 606: 0.6 mi
- Grassy Knob: 1.2 mi
- Wolf Knob: 1.2 mi
- Little Hickory Top: 1.5 mi
- Lance Mountain: 1.5 mi
- North Carolina Arboretum: 1.4 mi
- Beaverdam Wildlife Restoration Area: 2.0 mi
- Bent Creek River Park: 2.2 mi
- Hominy Valley Park: 3.7 mi
- Buncombe County Sports Park: 4.5 mi
- Bee Branch Falls: 6.8 mi
- Slate Rock Creek Falls: 7.5 mi
- Johnny Tiller Falls: 7.6 mi
- Bradley Creek Falls: 9.0 mi
- Lower Thompson Ridge Falls: 9.4 mi
- Ferin Fire Tower: 3.2 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 7.5 mi
- The Bunkum Stone: 8.4 mi
- Buck Springs Lodge foundation: 8.5 mi
- Anne Penland: 8.6 mi
- Plant Professional Landscape Garden: 0.9 mi
- Plants of Promise Garden: 1.2 mi
- Bonsai Garden: 1.3 mi
- Holly Garden: 1.3 mi
- Stream Garden: 1.3 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 5.4 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 5.4 mi
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: 5.7 mi
- WNC Agricultural Center: 6.8 mi
- Ironland: 8.5 mi
- Statue of Diana: 5.8 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 7.0 mi
- TebbeArt Studios: 7.1 mi
- E. W. Pearson: 7.1 mi
- JMK236 Studio: 7.1 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 8.5 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 8.6 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 8.6 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 8.7 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 8.7 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 7.9 mi
- Jump Off Rock: 13.2 mi
- High Rocks: 16.0 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 19.6 mi
- Raven Cliff: 20.6 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 6.9 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 7.0 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 10.9 mi
- Shining Rock Wilderness: 15.2 mi
- Bat Fork Bog Site: 16.0 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 5.6 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 8.7 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 15.4 mi
- Coontree Picnic Area: 15.7 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 6.9 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 7.0 mi
- Haywood County US 74 Westbound Rest Area: 24.0 mi
- Haywood County US 74 Eastbound Rest Area: 24.9 mi
- Crystal Spring: 14.3 mi
- Lenox Spring: 15.2 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 19.4 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 6.2 mi
- Covered Bridge Trail: 24.0 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 0.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.3 miles of Powhatan Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Candler Knob | WSW 237° | 1,381 m | 7.0 mi |
| Stony Bald | WSW 238° | 1,363 m | 6.5 mi |
| Laurel Mountain | SW 219° | 1,246 m | 7.2 mi |
| Rich Gap Mountain | SW 217° | 1,230 m | 6.9 mi |
| Shell Knob | WSW 242° | 1,221 m | 5.0 mi |
| Fork Mountain | WSW 242° | 1,221 m | 5.0 mi |
| Ferrin Knob | SW 234° | 1,211 m | 3.2 mi |
| Young Pisgah Mountain | WSW 254° | 1,197 m | 4.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:09 | 19:43 |
| 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 Lizard249 obs
- Common Five-lined Skink232 obs
- fan clubmoss197 obs
- Eastern Newt196 obs
- fire pink182 obs
- mountain laurel178 obs
- Carolina sweetshrub175 obs
- Pipevine Swallowtail165 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/357803296
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- Asheville · 8 mi
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