Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area
Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 896 m. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the west-northwest, 9.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Champe Rocks, a peak 1.0 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 29 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 896 m
How to reach it
- 29.3 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Champe Rocks: 1.0 mi
- Champe Knobs: 1.5 mi
- Skidmore Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Cave Mountain: 2.8 mi
- River Knob: 3.3 mi
- Potomac Wildlife Management Area: 5.3 mi
- Dolly Sods Picnic Area: 6.4 mi
- Dam Site Seven Park: 7.5 mi
- Echo Park: 8.4 mi
- Ruddle Park: 10.2 mi
- Eagle Rock: 3.9 mi
- Lower Slabs: 4.8 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 5.0 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 5.0 mi
- Southern Pillar: 5.0 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 11.2 mi
- Small waterfall: 13.6 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 13.8 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 18.9 mi
- Elakala Falls: 19.0 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 13.0 mi
- Hall Spring: 18.2 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 18.6 mi
- Sand Spring: 18.9 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 21.3 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 13.5 mi
- Stony River Dam: 17.7 mi
- Stony River Dam: 17.7 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 20.9 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 20.9 mi
- Smoke Hole: 1.9 mi
- Stringtown: 12.0 mi
- Mill Run: 16.2 mi
- Kempton: 24.6 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 9.5 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 14.0 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 19.4 mi
- Moorefield Historic District: 21.8 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 12.4 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 14.3 mi
- Lost River State Park: 21.7 mi
- Sites Homestead: 5.1 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 5.3 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 20.9 mi
- Blue Hole Day Use Area: 21.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.5 miles of Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | WNW 291° | 1,452 m | 9.1 mi |
| Green Knob | W 279° | 1,424 m | 8.0 mi |
| Haystack Knob | WNW 282° | 1,376 m | 7.7 mi |
| Weiss Knob | NW 318° | 1,359 m | 10.5 mi |
| Job Knob | W 266° | 1,353 m | 12.1 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | W 273° | 1,348 m | 11.9 mi |
| Bald Knob | NW 322° | 1,332 m | 11.2 mi |
| Cabin Mountain | NW 323° | 1,331 m | 10.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:07 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:17 | 16:59 |
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 | 34 | 36 | 44 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 76 | 74 | 67 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Petersburg, 12 mi away.
- purple-stem cliffbrake12 obs
- Allegheny stonecrop8 obs
- bloodroot5 obs
- common toadflax4 obs
- twinleaf4 obs
- tall bellflower4 obs
- bear's foot4 obs
- Dutchman's breeches3 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/356524597
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