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Rich-Laurel Wildlife Area

Rich-Laurel Wildlife Area from directly overhead

Rich-Laurel Wildlife Area is a park in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 1,038 m. Camp Creek Bald stands 1,480 m to the northeast, 8.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Rich Mountain, a peak 0.1 miles away. Appalachian Medley passes 1.3 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
1038 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates35.92621, -82.80292

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks: 33
Waterfalls: 28
Cliffs: 17
Historic sites: 10
  • Dixie Highway Monument: 2.9 mi
  • Shelton Laurel Massacre: 3.4 mi
  • Dixie Highway Monument: 6.2 mi
  • Declaration of Independence: 11.1 mi
  • US Constitution: 11.1 mi
Springs: 7
Museums: 6
  • Rural Heritage Museum: 15.7 mi
  • The Greeneville Greene County History Museum: 16.3 mi
  • City Garage Car Museum: 16.3 mi
  • Doak House Museum: 17.3 mi
  • Dry Ridge Historical Museum: 20.9 mi
Picnic sites: 5
  • Murray Branch Recreation Area: 4.0 mi
  • Overlook Access: 4.4 mi
  • Love Road Picnic: 4.7 mi
  • Stephen Falls Picnic Area: 4.7 mi
  • Cold Springs Picnic Area: 15.0 mi
Attractions: 4
  • French Broad Rafting: 7.2 mi
  • Wildwater Pigeon Rafting and Zipline Canopy Tours: 20.7 mi
  • Navitat Canopy Adventures: 22.2 mi
  • Little Snowball Lookout Tower: 23.7 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Nature reserves: 2
Rest areas: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.4 miles of Rich-Laurel Wildlife Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Camp Creek BaldNE 36°1,480 m8.3 mi
Bluff MountainSW 225°1,430 m8.3 mi
Hap MountainS 189°1,233 m8.2 mi
Round MountainNE 38°1,211 m6.7 mi
Spring MountainNNE 24°1,123 m2.1 mi
Rich MountainWNW 296°1,118 m0.1 mi
High KnobESE 110°1,102 m7.3 mi
Rector ButtS 183°1,090 m7.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:0919:43
June solstice06:1620:1420:52
September equinox07:2018:5619:30
December solstice07:3916:4217:22

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F384249576673767670594842
Precip in3.73.34.03.84.55.24.74.93.42.42.93.9

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

Wildlife nearby
  • stalked puffball-in-aspic12 obs
  • galax11 obs
  • fly poison9 obs
  • common cowparsnip8 obs
  • mountain laurel7 obs
  • downy rattlesnake plantain6 obs
  • fringed polygala6 obs
  • Eastern Newt5 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357809719

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