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Shenandoah Wildlife Management Area

Shenandoah Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Shenandoah Wildlife Management Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 587 m. Flagpole Knob stands 1,336 m to the south, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Brandywine Recreation Area, a park 1.1 miles away. Camp Allegheny Backway passes 28 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
587 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.61595, -79.20420
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks: 52
  • Brandywine Recreation Area: 1.1 mi
  • Skidmore Fork Scenic Area: 6.6 mi
  • Skidmore Fork Scenic Area: 6.6 mi
  • Franklin Town Park: 6.8 mi
  • Thorn Spring Park: 8.0 mi
Historic sites: 15
Museums: 10
Artworks: 10
Springs: 8
Attractions: 6
  • Treasure Mountain: 5.1 mi
  • Seneca Caverns: 14.2 mi
  • Eagle’s Sugar Camp: 19.9 mi
  • Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 23.1 mi
  • Rexrode’s Sugar Orchard: 24.7 mi
Cliffs: 6
Picnic sites: 5
Waterfalls: 3
Gardens: 3
Ghost towns: 1
Nature reserves: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.1 miles of Shenandoah Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Flagpole KnobS 172°1,336 m7.4 mi
Slate Springs MountainS 173°1,332 m7.5 mi
Bother KnobS 183°1,323 m7.5 mi
High KnobSSE 151°1,246 m3.7 mi
Dundore MountainSSE 148°1,244 m7.0 mi
Cow KnobNE 49°1,231 m8.1 mi
Meadow KnobSSE 161°1,184 m8.0 mi
Feedstone MountainESE 103°1,174 m6.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2118:5419:29
June solstice05:5320:0620:45
September equinox07:0518:4119:16
December solstice07:3216:1817:00

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333543526168727064544436
Precip in2.52.13.23.44.23.44.83.53.82.62.42.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Franklin 2 NE, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Pipevine Swallowtail5 obs
  • moss phlox5 obs
  • bird's foot violet5 obs
  • shale barren ragwort5 obs
  • viper's-bugloss4 obs
  • cliff stonecrop4 obs
  • Northern Two-lined Salamander3 obs
  • Eastern Newt3 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/356538840

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