Stanley Park
Stanley Park is a park in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 238 m. Kings Pinnacle stands 520 m to the southwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is R.M. Thompson Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Crowders Mountain Drive passes 14 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 238 m
How to reach it
- 13.8 mi off the Crowders Mountain Drive
- 27.4 mi off the South Mountain Scenery
- 29.7 mi off the Millbridge Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- R.M. Thompson Park: 0.2 mi
- Harper Park: 0.4 mi
- CommonGround: 1.4 mi
- North Belmont Park: 5.0 mi
- Ranlo Community Park: 5.2 mi
- Russel McConnel Memorial: 8.5 mi
- "Shuffletown Hand": 9.0 mi
- Sculpture of Queen Charlotte: 12.9 mi
- Ascendus: 13.7 mi
- Reflections of Community: 14.4 mi
- F-4 Phantom II: 12.0 mi
- Caboose: 14.4 mi
- METALmorphosis: 16.8 mi
- Coal car: 17.5 mi
- Graffiti Park: 17.6 mi
- Rhodes Drive: 6.6 mi
- River Oaks Academy Birthday Rock: 7.4 mi
- General Davidson Memorial Historic Site: 9.4 mi
- Tryon Resolves: 13.2 mi
- McIntyre Skirmish: 13.2 mi
- Gaston County Museum: 5.9 mi
- Mount Holly Historical Society Museum: 6.2 mi
- Schiele Museum: 8.6 mi
- Millican Pictorial History Museum: 8.8 mi
- American Military Museum: 8.9 mi
- Two Rivers Utilities Educational Garden: 8.7 mi
- Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden: 13.7 mi
- Sustainability Village Community Garden: 15.7 mi
- Community Garden: 15.8 mi
- Private Garden: 16.2 mi
- Pharr Yarns - Spencer Mountain Wetland: 3.9 mi
- Mountain Island Educational State Forest: 5.5 mi
- Catawba Wildflower Glen: 6.7 mi
- Rozzelles Ferry Nature Preserve: 6.9 mi
- Cowan's Ford Wildlife Refuge: 7.0 mi
- Reese Mountain: 4.6 mi
- Spencer Mountain: 4.8 mi
- Berry Mountain: 9.4 mi
- Jackson Knob: 11.8 mi
- Gamble Hill: 13.1 mi
- SHOAL: 11.4 mi
- SHOAL: 12.3 mi
- Ramsay Creek Park Beach: 12.7 mi
- South Point Beach: 15.0 mi
- Sailing Beach: 18.0 mi
- High Shoals: 6.7 mi
- Little Long Creek Falls: 7.6 mi
- Long Creek Falls: 9.0 mi
- North Carolina Welcome Center: 19.4 mi
- South Carolina Welcome Center: 21.3 mi
- Carowinds Grove: 19.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Stanley Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kings Pinnacle | SW 229° | 520 m | 16.5 mi |
| Anderson Mountain | N 0° | 471 m | 14.0 mi |
| Crowders Mountain | SW 229° | 458 m | 13.9 mi |
| Little Mountain | N 4° | 409 m | 15.4 mi |
| Hog Hill | NW 313° | 391 m | 21.3 mi |
| Spencer Mountain | SSW 197° | 375 m | 4.8 mi |
| Henry Knob | SSW 213° | 344 m | 19.1 mi |
| Jackson Knob | SSW 203° | 328 m | 11.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:29 | 19:03 | 19:36 |
| June solstice | 06:11 | 20:06 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 07:13 | 18:49 | 19:23 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 16:37 | 17:16 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 46 | 53 | 62 | 69 | 77 | 81 | 79 | 74 | 63 | 52 | 45 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gastonia, 7 mi away.
- Common Box Turtle19 obs
- American beech16 obs
- shining sumac14 obs
- Common Five-lined Skink10 obs
- American tuliptree9 obs
- Cope's Gray Tree Frog8 obs
- American holly7 obs
- bigleaf magnolia7 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/357796777
Day trips start here
- Huntersville · 14 mi
- Cornelius · 15 mi
- Charlotte · 17 mi
- Charlotte/Dilworth · 17 mi
- Charlotte Metro · 17 mi
- Charlotte/South End · 17 mi
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