Warden Lake Wildlife Management Area
Warden Lake Wildlife Management Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 392 m. Mill Mountain stands 1,006 m to the south, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Baker Mountain, a peak 3.0 miles away. Skyline Drive passes 26 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 392 m
How to reach it
- 26.4 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
- 26.1 mi off the Washington Heritage Trail, National
- 26.1 mi off the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Shenandoah Valley Overlook · 27 mi
- No Name Overlook · 28 mi
- Signal Knob Overlook · 28 mi
- Gooney Run Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Baker Mountain: 3.0 mi
- North River Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Dillons Mountain: 5.7 mi
- Cacapon Mountain: 5.7 mi
- Wacousta Hill: 5.7 mi
- J. Allen Hawkins Community Park: 4.0 mi
- Short Mountain Wildlife Management Area: 5.6 mi
- Scenic Field: 9.8 mi
- Baker Park: 10.6 mi
- North Mountain Neighborhood Park: 10.7 mi
- Capon Bridge Museum: 14.3 mi
- Capon Bridge Museum: 14.3 mi
- Hupp's Hill Museum: 16.2 mi
- Strasburg Museum: 16.5 mi
- Taggart Hall Civil War Museum & Visitors Center: 16.7 mi
- Van Buren Furnace: 11.1 mi
- Stephens Fort: 15.1 mi
- Collie Grave: 16.3 mi
- Parsons Bell Tower: 17.0 mi
- Parsons Bell Tower: 17.0 mi
- Big Spring: 6.5 mi
- Winfred Tharp Spring: 7.0 mi
- Roadside Spring: 7.1 mi
- Arie Vankan Spring: 7.1 mi
- Trout Run Fault Spring: 9.0 mi
- An Apple a Day Apple Statue: 21.9 mi
- Warrior Statue: 22.1 mi
- Bites of Local Life Apple Statue: 22.3 mi
- A Tasteful 1 Apple Statue: 22.6 mi
- Young George Washington: 23.3 mi
- Dog Cliff: 7.5 mi
- Three High Heads: 7.8 mi
- Hanging Rock: 8.7 mi
- Markley Rocks: 17.2 mi
- Hanging Rocks: 19.9 mi
- Public River Access, Fishing: 17.1 mi
- Beach 3: 18.7 mi
- Beach 1: 19.0 mi
- Beach 2: 19.3 mi
- River Beach: 19.9 mi
- Mountain Falls: 10.3 mi
- Hooks Mill Falls: 10.8 mi
- Falls Ridge Waterfall: 19.5 mi
- Herman Rubenstein Memorial Garden: 15.9 mi
- Old grape garden: 16.3 mi
- W.O. Riley Park Garden: 18.0 mi
- Homewood Preserve: 16.3 mi
- Water Street Nature Reserve: 18.7 mi
- Lost River State Park: 21.9 mi
- Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad: 17.7 mi
- Moorefield Historic District: 20.4 mi
- Bryce Resort: 23.6 mi
- Gainsboro Tourist Park: 20.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.7 miles of Warden Lake Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Mountain | S 189° | 1,006 m | 10.9 mi |
| Sugar Knob | S 184° | 976 m | 10.9 mi |
| Little Sluice Mountain | S 181° | 951 m | 11.7 mi |
| Long Mountain | SSW 206° | 951 m | 13.9 mi |
| Paddy Mountain | SSE 168° | 910 m | 9.0 mi |
| Big Schloss | SSW 195° | 894 m | 13.8 mi |
| Short Mountain | WSW 252° | 874 m | 8.1 mi |
| Bald Knob | WSW 252° | 874 m | 8.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:51 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 20:04 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:38 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 16:13 | 16:56 |
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 | 33 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 68 | 72 | 71 | 64 | 53 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 2.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wardensville R M Farm, 2 mi away.
- American Goldfinch18 obs
- Tufted Titmouse14 obs
- wild comfrey14 obs
- great mullein13 obs
- Eastern Phoebe12 obs
- pink lady's slipper12 obs
- striped wintergreen12 obs
- Central Ratsnake12 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/356524544
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