Wolf Gap Recreation Area
Wolf Gap Recreation Area is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 685 m. Mill Mountain stands 1,006 m to the northeast, 4.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Tibbet Knob, a peak 1.1 miles away. Skyline Drive passes 24 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 685 m
How to reach it
- 23.8 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
Overlooks nearby
- Jeremys Run Overlook · 24 mi
- Rattlesnake Point Overlook · 25 mi
- Hogback Overlook · 25 mi
- Thornton Hollow Overlook · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Tibbet Knob: 1.1 mi
- Bowers Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Devils Hole Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Big Schloss: 1.8 mi
- Sugar Hill: 2.1 mi
- Trout Pond Recreation Area: 3.1 mi
- Baker Park: 9.0 mi
- Shenandoah County Fairgrounds: 9.6 mi
- Shenandoah County Fairgrounds: 9.8 mi
- W.O. Riley Park: 9.9 mi
- The Edinburg Mill: 9.7 mi
- "Connections" The Shentel Museum: 9.9 mi
- Woodstock Museum Marshall House: 10.2 mi
- Woodstock Museum Wickham House: 10.3 mi
- Main Street of Yesteryear: 14.5 mi
- Collie Grave: 2.4 mi
- Van Buren Furnace: 8.0 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 12.5 mi
- 54th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment: 17.9 mi
- Indian Grave: 18.1 mi
- Cold Spring: 2.5 mi
- Yellow Spring: 2.7 mi
- Sandstone Spring: 4.0 mi
- Stranderman Spring: 5.9 mi
- Trout Run Fault Spring: 6.3 mi
- Bryce Resort: 8.4 mi
- Shenandoah Caverns: 14.5 mi
- Moorefield Historic District: 17.7 mi
- Cooter's Luray: 20.8 mi
- The Garden Maze: 21.1 mi
- Markley Rocks: 2.9 mi
- Hanging Rock: 8.4 mi
- Helmick Rock: 12.6 mi
- Three High Heads: 12.9 mi
- Dog Cliff: 16.4 mi
- Falls Ridge Waterfall: 5.1 mi
- Mountain Falls: 21.4 mi
- Overall Run Falls: 23.4 mi
- Upper Overall Run Falls: 23.5 mi
- Cootie Bug: 14.5 mi
- Statue of Liberty: 14.6 mi
- Love: 21.2 mi
- Happy Moon, 10,000 Smiles: 22.3 mi
- Pavilian: 16.3 mi
- Blue Hole Day Use Area: 17.7 mi
- Picnic Area: 21.0 mi
- Picnic Area: 21.2 mi
- Old grape garden: 2.4 mi
- W.O. Riley Park Garden: 9.9 mi
- Water Street Nature Reserve: 10.3 mi
- Lost River State Park: 11.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.1 miles of Wolf Gap Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Mountain | NE 40° | 1,006 m | 4.9 mi |
| Devils Benchmark | W 280° | 995 m | 2.3 mi |
| Sugar Knob | NE 50° | 976 m | 5.6 mi |
| Long Mountain | NNW 331° | 951 m | 2.2 mi |
| Little Sluice Mountain | ENE 60° | 951 m | 5.5 mi |
| Snyder Knob | W 274° | 936 m | 4.5 mi |
| Paddy Mountain | NE 50° | 910 m | 8.9 mi |
| Cove Mountain | WSW 251° | 898 m | 7.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:04 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:38 | 19:14 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 16:15 | 16:57 |
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 | 30 | 32 | 39 | 51 | 59 | 67 | 71 | 69 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 34 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lost RVR, 6 mi away.
- mountain laurel34 obs
- Spongy Moth24 obs
- sassafras19 obs
- rock harlequin19 obs
- Eastern Newt17 obs
- red columbine14 obs
- Smooth Rock Tripe13 obs
- american witch-hazel12 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/356575680
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