Beaucatcher Mountain
Beaucatcher Mountain rises to 819 m in North Carolina. Rocky Knob stands 1,433 m to the northeast, 6.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Albermarle Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 2.5 miles off.
The story
Beaucatcher Mountain is located in a portion of the Appalachian Mountain Range known as the Great Craggy Mountains, in Asheville, North Carolina. Its name was said to have been coined in the mid-1800s by James W. Patton, who once teased his sister-in-law, Charlotte Kerry, after watching her stroll the mountainside with her "beau". Patton suggested her eagerness to walk the mountain was incentive for her beau to spend time with her, thus, the mountain was dubbed Charlotte's “beau catcher.” Beaucatcher Mountain's elevation reaches 2,694 feet (821 m), providing views of Downtown Asheville. The mountain borders the eastern part of downtown Asheville and has three main roads that tunnel through and go over the mountain. They are: US 70/US 74A via Beaucatcher Tunnel (completed in 1927), I-240 via Beaucatcher Cut (completed in 1980), and a Town Mountain Road (NC 694) which leads towards the Blue Ridge Parkway. Beaucatcher Mountain originally had two reservoirs: White Fawn Reservoir (long ago decommissioned and filled in with construction debris) and Lake Kenilworth. The reservoirs provided drinking water to the city of Asheville beginning in the 1880s. Waters from the mountain eventually make their way to the French Broad River.
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Wikidata Q4877406, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 819 m
How to reach it
- 2.5 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 7.2 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 9.5 mi off the Drovers Road
- 12.2 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Lake Louise Falls: 6.0 mi
- Reems Creek Falls: 6.8 mi
- Cascades Falls: 11.9 mi
- Douglas Falls: 12.2 mi
- Walker Falls: 14.7 mi
- Piney Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Sunset Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Cisco Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Patton Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Pleasant Knob: 1.8 mi
- Albermarle Park: 0.4 mi
- Sunset Park: 0.5 mi
- Grove Park: 0.6 mi
- Martin Luther King Jr Park: 0.7 mi
- Pack Square: 1.0 mi
- Overlook Castle: 0.5 mi
- Jeter C. Pritchard Historical Marker: 0.9 mi
- Thomas Wolfe Memorial: 0.9 mi
- Young Men's Institute: 1.0 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 1.0 mi
- Elder & Sage Community Garden: 1.2 mi
- Griffing Rose Garden: 1.5 mi
- Burton Street Community Peace Garden: 3.1 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 4.0 mi
- Italian Garden: 4.6 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 0.9 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 1.0 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 1.0 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 1.1 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 1.2 mi
- Ironland: 1.2 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 1.7 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 4.3 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 4.4 mi
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: 12.1 mi
- Flat Iron Statue: 1.2 mi
- Deco Gecko: 1.2 mi
- Passage: 1.3 mi
- Wake: 1.5 mi
- rooster: 2.0 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 2.2 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 3.5 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 8.6 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 11.8 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 12.3 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 8.1 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 14.2 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 19.1 mi
- Jump Off Rock: 20.2 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 20.5 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 13.0 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 16.5 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 16.7 mi
- Crystal Spring: 20.4 mi
- Lenox Spring: 20.9 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 15.0 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 18.0 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 19.0 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 23.3 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 24.8 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 12.3 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 12.4 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 9.9 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 14.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.7 miles of Beaucatcher Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Knob | NE 48° | 1,433 m | 6.8 mi |
| Richland Knob | NE 43° | 1,429 m | 7.3 mi |
| Richland Mountain | NE 43° | 1,429 m | 7.3 mi |
| Courthouse Knob | NE 38° | 1,322 m | 7.4 mi |
| High Swan | NE 50° | 1,300 m | 6.2 mi |
| Rice Knob | NE 38° | 1,219 m | 4.4 mi |
| Rock Knob | ENE 63° | 1,199 m | 6.9 mi |
| Paynes Knob | ENE 58° | 1,183 m | 7.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:09 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:16 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:42 | 17:21 |
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 | 38 | 42 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 75 | 74 | 68 | 58 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Asheville, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357806434
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