Vesuvius Recreation Area
Vesuvius Recreation Area is a park in Ohio, at a recorded elevation of 210 m. High Knob stands 314 m to the south-southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Bend Swimming Beach, a beach 0.3 miles away. Country Music Highway passes 6.8 miles off. 27 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 210 m
How to reach it
- 6.8 mi off the Country Music Highway, National
- 5.7 mi off the Ohio River Scenic Byway, National
- 21.7 mi off the Welsh Scenic Byway
- 21.7 mi off the Scenic Scioto Heritage Trail Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- River Overlook · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Dean State Forest: 5.2 mi
- 9th Street Park: 6.2 mi
- Beechwood Park: 6.5 mi
- Raceland Park: 7.4 mi
- Paul Porter Park: 7.8 mi
- Big Boy: 6.0 mi
- Student Soldier Statue: 7.8 mi
- Venus: 9.2 mi
- Genesis: 9.3 mi
- Vulcan: 9.3 mi
- Vesuvius Furnace: 0.7 mi
- Marquette Cement: 5.4 mi
- Sergeant Danny C. Hayes Memorial: 11.8 mi
- WWI Memorial Trail: 16.7 mi
- WWI Memorial Trail: 16.8 mi
- Sand Hill: 1.2 mi
- Five Forks Hill: 1.7 mi
- Tipton Knob: 6.3 mi
- Stewart Knob: 6.6 mi
- Phillips Knob: 9.1 mi
- Lawrence County Museum: 6.3 mi
- The Highlands Museum & Discovery Center: 9.5 mi
- Russell E. Compton Civic Center & Museum: 13.8 mi
- Ramsdell House: 15.6 mi
- Ceredo Historical Society Museum: 15.8 mi
- Anderson Compass Plant Prairie: 8.3 mi
- Ohio Hanging Rock Preserve: 15.8 mi
- Cackley Swamp Preserve: 21.0 mi
- Cackley Swamp Preserve: 21.5 mi
- Baker Swamp State Nature Preserve: 23.2 mi
- C&O 1308: 16.7 mi
- Chad Pennington Hall of Fame: 17.4 mi
- Violet Point: 20.6 mi
- Raven Rock: 24.0 mi
- Rest Area I 64 (East Bound): 23.0 mi
- Rest Area I 64 (West Bound): 23.7 mi
- Big Bend Swimming Beach: 0.3 mi
- Central Park Picnic Area: 9.8 mi
- Ritter Park Rose Garden: 17.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Vesuvius Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Knob | SSW 212° | 314 m | 17.9 mi |
| Stewart Knob | NNE 33° | 307 m | 6.6 mi |
| Niner Hill | NW 315° | 307 m | 19.5 mi |
| Phillips Knob | NNE 12° | 306 m | 9.1 mi |
| Tipton Knob | NE 52° | 305 m | 6.3 mi |
| Poplar Knob | NE 51° | 305 m | 18.5 mi |
| Feurt Hill | NW 307° | 304 m | 22.4 mi |
| Hardscrabble Hill | NW 321° | 293 m | 23.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:08 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:07 | 20:19 | 20:59 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:45 | 16:31 | 17:13 |
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 | 52 | 62 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 5.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Waterloo, 10 mi away.
- Eastern Pondhawk30 obs
- Variable Dancer22 obs
- Swift Setwing20 obs
- Christmas fern19 obs
- blue phlox19 obs
- Blue Dasher18 obs
- Slaty Skimmer18 obs
- woodland stonecrop17 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/357484876
Day trips start here
- Huntington · 17 mi
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