Bailey Mountain
Bailey Mountain rises to 306 m in Virginia. Horseshoe Mountain stands 741 m to the west-northwest, 9.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Ball Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 15 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Nelson County, Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49009565, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 306 m
How to reach it
- 15.1 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 18.6 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
- 21.3 mi off the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway, National
- 29.3 mi off the Lee's Retreat
Overlooks nearby
- Devil's Knob Overlook · 15 mi
- Catoctin Overlook · 15 mi
- Greenstone Overlook · 15 mi
- Raven's Roost Overlook · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cove Creek Park: 6.1 mi
- Simpson Park: 8.6 mi
- Scottsville Recreation Center: 12.4 mi
- Totier Creek Park: 12.5 mi
- Walnut Creek Park: 13.4 mi
- Ball Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Monasco Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Willoughby Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Little Piney Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Butler Mountain: 2.8 mi
- The Sagacious Heads: 19.7 mi
- 3 Owl Statue: 20.1 mi
- Mountain Man: 20.4 mi
- Bear Statue: 20.5 mi
- James Monroe: 21.3 mi
- Mirador: 17.8 mi
- VDOT Workers' Memorial: 18.7 mi
- Scheier Fish Ponds: 20.4 mi
- W181 Birthplace of Meriwether Lewis: 21.0 mi
- Beaver Creek Watershed Project: 21.0 mi
- Waltons Mountain Museum: 2.6 mi
- Virginia Distillery Museum: 6.5 mi
- Rockfish Valley Foundation Natural History Center: 11.3 mi
- Scottsville Museum: 13.8 mi
- Housewright House: 18.7 mi
- Murray Elementary Vegetable Garden: 20.7 mi
- Jane Heyward Garden: 20.7 mi
- Student Garden: 21.8 mi
- Monticello Vegetable Garden: 22.6 mi
- West Lawn: 22.6 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain / Rockfish / Shields Gap: 8.0 mi
- Fortune's Cove Preserve: 8.2 mi
- James River at Wingina: 9.8 mi
- Van Clief Natural Area: 13.8 mi
- Hardware River State Wildlife Management Area: 17.8 mi
- Laurel Springs Gap: 15.2 mi
- Dripping Rock: 15.4 mi
- Hickory Spring: 15.8 mi
- Coiner Spring: 21.6 mi
- Rock Spring: 22.0 mi
- Virginia Distillery Co. Distillery Tour & Tasting: 6.5 mi
- Crabtree Falls: 19.0 mi
- James Monroe's Highland: 21.1 mi
- Free Speech Wall: 22.7 mi
- Yankee Horse Ridge: 23.9 mi
- Lake Monocan Beach: 11.2 mi
- Lake Monticello Beach 4: 24.8 mi
- Lake Monticello Beach 5: 24.8 mi
- Upper Shamokin Falls: 15.0 mi
- White Rock Falls: 19.0 mi
- St. Mary's Falls: 22.4 mi
- Nelson County Wayside: 6.1 mi
- Humpback Rocks Picnic Area: 15.4 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 18.8 mi
- Canada: 21.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.1 miles of Bailey Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horseshoe Mountain | WNW 298° | 741 m | 9.6 mi |
| Heard Mountain | N 2° | 726 m | 10.6 mi |
| Castle Rock | N 5° | 722 m | 12.0 mi |
| White Mountain | WNW 290° | 720 m | 9.9 mi |
| High Top Mountain | W 280° | 678 m | 8.8 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | W 275° | 677 m | 4.2 mi |
| Pats Knob | W 279° | 660 m | 10.0 mi |
| Massies Mountain | N 353° | 657 m | 10.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:02 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:19 | 17:00 |
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 | 37 | 40 | 47 | 57 | 64 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — TYE RVR 1 SE, 14 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1462683 — Bailey Mountain, Nelson County, Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356559939
Day trips start here
- Charlottesville · 23 mi
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