Stuart Recreation Area
Stuart Recreation Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 701 m. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the east, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Kelley Mountain, a peak 1.1 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 3.7 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 701 m
How to reach it
- 3.7 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 7.4 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 21.3 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
- 24.4 mi off the Back Mountain Backway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Kelley Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Bickle Knob: 2.5 mi
- Pond Lick Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Chenoweth Knob: 3.4 mi
- Stuart Knob: 3.6 mi
- Davis Street Park: 3.7 mi
- Elkins City Park: 3.9 mi
- College Street Park: 4.1 mi
- Veteran's Memorial Park: 4.2 mi
- Glendale Park & Skatepark: 4.7 mi
- Pat Spring: 4.2 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 4.6 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 4.6 mi
- Harlan Irons Spring: 9.0 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 17.8 mi
- High Falls: 10.1 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 16.7 mi
- Small waterfall: 17.5 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 17.7 mi
- Elakala Falls: 19.7 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 4.3 mi
- Wilson Monument: 4.7 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 18.3 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 20.2 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 20.2 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 4.2 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 7.7 mi
- Covered Bridge Museum: 21.7 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 22.3 mi
- Sites Homestead: 22.3 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 22.6 mi
- Lower Slabs: 22.7 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 22.7 mi
- Southern Pillar: 22.7 mi
- Raven Rocks: 24.4 mi
- Mill Run: 13.9 mi
- Stringtown: 16.8 mi
- Gertrude: 17.3 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 20.2 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 23.3 mi
- Maniac Mountain: 23.5 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 5.0 mi
- Locust Springs: 24.1 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 18.7 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 20.6 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 4.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.3 miles of Stuart Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | E 88° | 1,452 m | 17.1 mi |
| Green Knob | E 94° | 1,424 m | 17.7 mi |
| Pharis Knob | SSE 147° | 1,410 m | 14.6 mi |
| Haystack Knob | E 93° | 1,376 m | 18.1 mi |
| Horse Rock | SE 128° | 1,374 m | 18.6 mi |
| Weiss Knob | ENE 74° | 1,359 m | 19.2 mi |
| Job Knob | ESE 104° | 1,353 m | 13.9 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | E 98° | 1,348 m | 13.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:55 | 20:09 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:19 | 17:01 |
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 | 41 | 52 | 60 | 68 | 71 | 70 | 64 | 53 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elkins- Randolph CO AP, 5 mi away.
- great rhododendron23 obs
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander15 obs
- Christmas fern14 obs
- Common Merganser13 obs
- Pipevine Swallowtail13 obs
- Canadian lousewort13 obs
- eastern poison ivy11 obs
- pipevine11 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 way/461391380
Day trips start here
- Buckhannon · 25 mi
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