Banks Mountain
Banks Mountain rises to 657 m in Virginia. Bald Knob stands 1,232 m to the north-northeast, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Sut Mountain, a peak 1.4 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 3.7 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49010631, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 657 m
How to reach it
- 3.7 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 23.7 mi off the Highlands Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- House Mountain Overlook · 5 mi
- Buena Vista Overlook · 6 mi
- Chimney Rock Mountain Overlook · 7 mi
- White's Gap Overlook · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Laurel Park: 7.2 mi
- Otter Creek Recreation Area: 7.4 mi
- Penny Park: 7.7 mi
- Glen Maury Park: 8.1 mi
- Ben Salem Wayside: 10.2 mi
- Sut Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Piney Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Glenn Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Pond Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Rice Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Otto Cline Powell monument: 5.3 mi
- Indian and Settler Conflict: 10.5 mi
- Old Mine Entrance: 12.9 mi
- Colonel Claudius Crozet: 13.6 mi
- VMI World War II Memorial: 13.7 mi
- Monacan Ancestral Museum: 8.9 mi
- Saint Paul's Mission School: 8.9 mi
- Train Station and Caboose: 11.4 mi
- Sweet Briar Museum: 11.5 mi
- Amherst County Historical Museum: 11.9 mi
- Knight Statue: 7.9 mi
- Peristyle: 7.9 mi
- Padgett Obelisk: 11.1 mi
- George Washington: 13.6 mi
- The Cannonball: 13.7 mi
- Yankee Horse Ridge: 11.1 mi
- Devils Marbleyard: 13.3 mi
- Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson: 13.6 mi
- Dinosaur Kingdom II: 15.5 mi
- Riverside Park Historic Train Exhibit: 15.8 mi
- HumanKind and Hill City Master Gardener Davis Instructional Garden: 14.8 mi
- Randolph College Organic Garden: 15.7 mi
- Daniel's Hill Garden: 16.9 mi
- Daniel's Hill Center Garden: 17.2 mi
- Yoder Center Garden: 17.5 mi
- Cow Camp Spring: 6.5 mi
- Wiggins Spring: 7.5 mi
- Hog Camp Gap Spring: 7.8 mi
- Lovingston Springs: 10.9 mi
- Marble Spring: 11.9 mi
- Mt. Pleasant Roadless Area: 6.7 mi
- Carry Nature Sanctuary: 11.9 mi
- Brushy Hills Preserve: 15.9 mi
- Hollins Mill Park: 17.0 mi
- Fortune's Cove Preserve: 21.5 mi
- Panther Falls: 4.0 mi
- Lace Falls: 16.8 mi
- Apple Orchard Falls: 18.3 mi
- White Rock Falls: 20.0 mi
- St. Mary's Falls: 20.3 mi
- Lovers Leap: 14.8 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 19.7 mi
- Fairfield Safety Rest Area: 15.4 mi
- Cascade Falls Picnic Area: 16.2 mi
- Chris Lantos Waterfront: 23.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.9 miles of Banks Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | NNE 14° | 1,232 m | 5.9 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | NE 37° | 1,223 m | 7.2 mi |
| Cole Mountain | NNE 21° | 1,197 m | 6.9 mi |
| Floyds Mountain | NNE 28° | 1,061 m | 7.0 mi |
| Little Rocky Mountain | NNE 30° | 1,034 m | 6.6 mi |
| Buck Mountain | N 6° | 1,025 m | 6.0 mi |
| Bluff Mountain | W 272° | 1,015 m | 5.3 mi |
| Little Mount Pleasant | NE 43° | 946 m | 7.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:04 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:22 | 17:03 |
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 | 34 | 37 | 44 | 54 | 63 | 71 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 56 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lexington, 13 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356581699
Day trips start here
- Lynchburg · 18 mi
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