Shawnee Park
Shawnee Park is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 186 m. Workman Knob stands 599 m to the south, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Quad Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Midland Trail passes 8.3 miles off. 32 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 186 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 8.3 mi off the Midland Trail, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Quad Park: 0.4 mi
- Katherine Johnson Statue: 0.4 mi
- Shawnee Community Center Park: 0.5 mi
- Dunbar Park: 1.4 mi
- Wine Cellar Park: 1.4 mi
- Tyler Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Coal Mountain: 7.9 mi
- Rocky Knob: 9.2 mi
- Bald Knob: 9.7 mi
- Holmes Knob: 9.7 mi
- Shoney's Big Boy Museum: 5.1 mi
- State Capitol: 7.1 mi
- World War 2: 7.1 mi
- The Roll of Honor: 7.1 mi
- The Block: 7.3 mi
- Nitro Wars Museum: 5.3 mi
- Sunrise Bird Sanctuary Museum: 6.8 mi
- West Virginia Cultural Center: 8.4 mi
- Frankenberger Art Gallery: 8.4 mi
- West Virginia State Museum: 8.4 mi
- East End Community Gardens: 8.1 mi
- Governor's Garden: 8.4 mi
- Wedding Garden: 9.8 mi
- Community Garden: 13.6 mi
- Indian Rock: 4.4 mi
- Skyline Drive: 10.9 mi
- Coal River Nature Reserve: 5.2 mi
- Wallace Hartman Nature Preserve: 8.0 mi
- Grotto: 10.0 mi
- July: 22.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Shawnee Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workman Knob | S 182° | 599 m | 22.3 mi |
| Bee Mountain | SSE 149° | 530 m | 15.3 mi |
| Mount Desert | ESE 106° | 491 m | 21.7 mi |
| Malden Mountain | ESE 119° | 455 m | 14.4 mi |
| Big Knob | E 80° | 437 m | 24.3 mi |
| Blue Knob | SSW 213° | 420 m | 19.1 mi |
| Buck Knob | SW 215° | 412 m | 14.1 mi |
| Hickory Knob | E 85° | 406 m | 19.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:04 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 06:04 | 20:15 | 20:55 |
| September equinox | 07:15 | 18:51 | 19:26 |
| December solstice | 07:41 | 16:29 | 17:10 |
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 | 33 | 36 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 71 | 75 | 73 | 67 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Charleston WFO, 3 mi away.
- Canada Goose12 obs
- Jacob's ladder12 obs
- Mallard11 obs
- Common Box Turtle11 obs
- spring blue-eyed Mary11 obs
- Dryad's Saddle10 obs
- common jewelweed9 obs
- mayapple8 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/548655516
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