Sherman Ballard Recreation Area
Sherman Ballard Recreation Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 450 m. Butt Mountain stands 1,282 m to the east-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Mercers Saltworks, a ghost town 0.8 miles away. Farm Heritage Road passes 4.8 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 450 m
How to reach it
- 4.8 mi off the Farm Heritage Road
- 23.9 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail, National
- 26.7 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail - VA
- 28.9 mi off the Big Walker Mountain Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Pinnacle Rock Overlook · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cashs Hill: 1.9 mi
- Clark Knob: 2.7 mi
- Bunker Hill: 4.3 mi
- White Tree Hill: 5.2 mi
- Powell Mountain: 5.5 mi
- Bluestone Lake Wildlife Management Area: 6.0 mi
- Athens City Park: 8.4 mi
- Bluestone National Scenic River: 9.4 mi
- Camp Success Campground: 10.0 mi
- Veteran's Memorial Park: 10.4 mi
- Mercers Saltworks: 0.8 mi
- Junta: 3.5 mi
- Warford: 4.9 mi
- Lilly: 9.6 mi
- Egypt: 14.6 mi
- Andrew Johnston House: 12.4 mi
- Princeton Railroad Museum: 13.8 mi
- Mercer County Agricultural Museum: 13.8 mi
- Hinton Railroad Museum: 13.9 mi
- Veteran's Museum: 14.0 mi
- Brush Creek Preserve: 10.6 mi
- Chestnut Ridge State Natural Area Preserve: 15.4 mi
- Camp Creek State Forest: 15.6 mi
- Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve: 22.6 mi
- Clover Hollow Natural Area Preserve: 24.2 mi
- High Point: 17.0 mi
- Barneys Wall: 17.1 mi
- Barney's Wall: 17.1 mi
- Bear Cliffs: 20.8 mi
- Bear Cliff: 21.0 mi
- World War II Memorial: 13.8 mi
- Stone Arch: 15.6 mi
- Perdue Family Crest: 19.1 mi
- Wake Forest Kentland Slave Memorial: 24.8 mi
- Cascades: 17.7 mi
- Sandstone Falls: 19.7 mi
- Sandstone Falls: 19.8 mi
- Falls of Dismal: 19.9 mi
- City Garden: 15.4 mi
- Brooks Falls: 17.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.7 miles of Sherman Ballard Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butt Mountain | ESE 118° | 1,282 m | 15.3 mi |
| Lookoff Rock | ESE 118° | 1,256 m | 15.6 mi |
| Buckhorn Knob | SSW 206° | 1,239 m | 13.8 mi |
| Sugar Run Mountain | S 177° | 1,238 m | 15.6 mi |
| Brushy Top | ESE 111° | 1,236 m | 15.8 mi |
| Doe Mountain | ESE 116° | 1,211 m | 18.4 mi |
| Flat Top Mountain | S 180° | 1,179 m | 16.0 mi |
| Jesses Knob | SSW 207° | 1,164 m | 13.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:28 | 19:01 | 19:36 |
| June solstice | 06:04 | 20:10 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:12 | 18:48 | 19:22 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 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 | 35 | 42 | 53 | 61 | 67 | 71 | 70 | 63 | 53 | 44 | 36 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Athens, 9 mi away.
- red columbine2 obs
- American cancer-root2 obs
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo1 obs
- American Crow1 obs
- Chipping Sparrow1 obs
- Eastern Towhee1 obs
- Common Grackle1 obs
- American Redstart1 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/356524409
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