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Shanks Roadside Park

Shanks Roadside Park from directly overhead

Shanks Roadside Park is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 352 m. Short Mountain stands 874 m to the south, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Camp Walker Park, a park 2.0 miles away. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway passes 16 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
352 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.31649, -78.69140

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Camp Walker Park: 2.0 mi
  • Central Hampshire Park: 4.1 mi
  • Scenic Field: 4.4 mi
  • Fort Mill Ridge Wildlife Management Area: 5.3 mi
  • Peterkin Camp and Conference Center: 5.7 mi
Peaks
Museums: 15
Nature reserves: 12
Historic sites: 11
Springs: 9
Attractions: 5
Beaches: 5
  • Public River Access, Fishing: 4.8 mi
  • River Beach: 6.9 mi
  • Beach 3: 19.4 mi
  • Beach 1: 19.5 mi
  • Beach 2: 20.1 mi
Cliffs: 5
Waterfalls: 2
  • Hooks Mill Falls: 14.1 mi
  • Mountain Falls: 19.5 mi
Gardens: 1
  • Herman Rubenstein Memorial Garden: 12.6 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Gainsboro Tourist Park: 23.7 mi
Picnic sites: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.9 miles of Shanks Roadside Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Short MountainS 190°874 m15.4 mi
Bald KnobS 190°874 m15.4 mi
PinnacleSE 131°864 m18.2 mi
Nathaniel MountainSW 217°839 m9.2 mi
FairviewNW 312°823 m19.9 mi
Johnnies KnobSE 146°803 m19.6 mi
Piney MountainSSW 211°802 m8.2 mi
High KnobSW 234°796 m13.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1918:5219:27
June solstice05:4920:0520:46
September equinox07:0318:3819:14
December solstice07:3216:1316:55

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313441526270747265544334
Precip in2.42.23.23.43.83.64.73.73.62.82.22.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Romney 1 SW, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Red Clover5 obs
  • chicory3 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly3 obs
  • common dandelion2 obs
  • American pokeweed2 obs
  • Virginia pine2 obs
  • tree-of-heaven2 obs
  • American Toad2 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/356535107

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