Baker Mountain
Baker Mountain rises to 624 m in West Virginia. Mill Mountain stands 1,006 m to the south-southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is North River Mountain, a peak 2.4 miles away. Washington Heritage Trail passes 24 miles off.
The story
Baker Mountain is a mountain ridge in southeastern Hampshire County, West Virginia. The mountain runs southwest northeast between Yellow Spring and the Hardy County line. Baker Mountain is flanked to its east by the Cacapon River with West Virginia Route 259 running parallel between the two. Its forests were once used as a major source of timber for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's rail ties. For this reason, the Winchester and Western Railroad was constructed through the Capon Valley in the 1920s to haul the timber harvested in the region to Winchester, Virginia for railroad tie production. The communities of Capon Lake and Intermont lie at the foot of Baker Mountain on the Cacapon.
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Wikidata Q4849185, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 624 m
How to reach it
- 23.6 mi off the Washington Heritage Trail, National
- 23.6 mi off the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway
- 26.0 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
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
- North River Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Cacapon Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Dillons Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Wacousta Hill: 4.5 mi
- Spring Mountain: 5.5 mi
- Warden Lake Wildlife Management Area: 3.0 mi
- J. Allen Hawkins Community Park: 6.1 mi
- Short Mountain Wildlife Management Area: 6.4 mi
- Scenic Field: 8.6 mi
- North Mountain Neighborhood Park: 8.8 mi
- Capon Bridge Museum: 11.4 mi
- Capon Bridge Museum: 11.4 mi
- Hupp's Hill Museum: 15.8 mi
- Strasburg Museum: 16.2 mi
- Taggart Hall Civil War Museum & Visitors Center: 16.3 mi
- Van Buren Furnace: 12.9 mi
- Stephens Fort: 13.7 mi
- Willa Cather Birthplace: 14.4 mi
- Parsons Bell Tower: 16.7 mi
- Parsons Bell Tower: 16.7 mi
- An Apple a Day Apple Statue: 19.5 mi
- Bites of Local Life Apple Statue: 19.9 mi
- A Tasteful 1 Apple Statue: 20.2 mi
- Warrior Statue: 20.5 mi
- Young George Washington: 20.9 mi
- Roadside Spring: 6.2 mi
- Big Spring: 9.5 mi
- Arie Vankan Spring: 9.7 mi
- Winfred Tharp Spring: 9.7 mi
- Trout Run Fault Spring: 11.7 mi
- Dog Cliff: 6.8 mi
- Three High Heads: 8.5 mi
- Hanging Rock: 11.7 mi
- Hanging Rocks: 19.2 mi
- Markley Rocks: 19.6 mi
- Beach 3: 15.8 mi
- Beach 1: 16.0 mi
- Beach 2: 16.3 mi
- Public River Access, Fishing: 16.9 mi
- River Beach: 18.5 mi
- Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad: 17.2 mi
- Moorefield Historic District: 23.0 mi
- Farnham Colossi: 23.8 mi
- Almost Heaven Swing: 24.1 mi
- Almost Heaven Sign: 24.1 mi
- Homewood Preserve: 16.0 mi
- Water Street Nature Reserve: 20.3 mi
- Red Bud Run: 24.7 mi
- Lost River State Park: 24.9 mi
- Hooks Mill Falls: 7.8 mi
- Mountain Falls: 8.2 mi
- Falls Ridge Waterfall: 22.4 mi
- Herman Rubenstein Memorial Garden: 13.1 mi
- Old grape garden: 18.7 mi
- W.O. Riley Park Garden: 19.6 mi
- Gainsboro Tourist Park: 18.0 mi
- Virginia Welcome Center at Clear Brook: 24.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.9 miles of Baker Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Mountain | SSW 197° | 1,006 m | 13.3 mi |
| Sugar Knob | SSW 193° | 976 m | 13.2 mi |
| Little Sluice Mountain | S 190° | 951 m | 13.9 mi |
| Long Mountain | SSW 209° | 951 m | 16.7 mi |
| Paddy Mountain | S 182° | 910 m | 10.8 mi |
| Big Schloss | SSW 201° | 894 m | 16.4 mi |
| Short Mountain | WSW 246° | 874 m | 10.9 mi |
| Bald Knob | WSW 246° | 874 m | 10.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:51 | 19:26 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 20:04 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:38 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 16:13 | 16:55 |
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, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1553779 — Baker Mountain, Hampshire County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356524629
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