Smoke Camp Wildlife Management Area
Smoke Camp Wildlife Management Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 430 m. Bear Knob stands 570 m to the east-southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Saint Marys Church, a historic site 2.0 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 6.3 miles off. 113 named places lie within 25 miles, 31 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 430 m
How to reach it
- 6.3 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 17.6 mi off the Little Kanawha Parkway
- 19.7 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
113 named places within 25 miles
- Doddridge County Park: 10.7 mi
- Watters Smith Memorial State Park: 10.8 mi
- The Holt Park / Holt Family: 10.9 mi
- Weston Downtown Historic District: 11.0 mi
- Weston City Park: 11.2 mi
- Sugarloaf: 8.4 mi
- Fisher Summit: 11.5 mi
- Pine Knob: 13.3 mi
- Purgatory Hill: 15.6 mi
- Wolf Fork Mountain: 15.9 mi
- Saint Marys Church: 2.0 mi
- West Virginia & Pittsburgh Railroad Depot: 10.8 mi
- The East and West Second Street Bridge: 10.9 mi
- Fairyland Nickelodeon Movies: 10.9 mi
- Stonewall Jackson Memorial: 11.0 mi
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: 10.8 mi
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (West Virginia Hospital for the Insane/Weston State Hospital): 10.8 mi
- West Virginia Museum of American Glass: 10.9 mi
- Mountaineer Military Museum: 10.9 mi
- Old Stone House Museum: 21.5 mi
- Weston Historic Walking Tour: 10.9 mi
- Maniac Mountain: 24.4 mi
- Stonewall Resort State Park: 15.3 mi
- Cedar Creek State Park: 22.9 mi
- Biology Demonstration Garden: 19.2 mi
- Burnsville Waterfall: 21.2 mi
- Buckhannon Mural: 23.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Smoke Camp Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Knob | ESE 111° | 570 m | 18.3 mi |
| Moss Knob | SSE 155° | 555 m | 24.6 mi |
| Big Knob | SSE 150° | 551 m | 23.8 mi |
| Wilson Knob | SSE 147° | 546 m | 22.3 mi |
| Buckhannon Mountain | SE 133° | 541 m | 19.2 mi |
| Purgatory Hill | SE 127° | 538 m | 15.6 mi |
| Handkerchief Knob | SSE 151° | 533 m | 22.0 mi |
| Bald Knob | SSE 151° | 526 m | 16.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:27 | 18:59 | 19:35 |
| June solstice | 05:57 | 20:13 | 20:53 |
| September equinox | 07:11 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| December solstice | 07:39 | 16:21 | 17:04 |
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 | 31 | 34 | 42 | 53 | 62 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 43 | 36 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Weston, 10 mi away.
- Eastern Newt1 obs
- Virginia Opossum1 obs
- Pearl Crescent1 obs
- Butterweed1 obs
- cut-leaved toothwort1 obs
- downy rattlesnake plantain1 obs
- lyreleaf sage1 obs
- Wingstem1 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/356538839
Day trips start here
- Weston · 11 mi
- Clarksburg · 17 mi
- Bridgeport · 22 mi
- Buckhannon · 23 mi
- Shinnston · 24 mi
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