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Beaucatcher Mountain

Beaucatcher Mountain, seen from above at true elevation

Beaucatcher Mountain rises to 819 m in North Carolina. Rich Knob stands 1,500 m to the northeast, 7.3 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

Coordinates35.60539, -82.53818

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • 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
Waterfalls
Historic sites: 32
Gardens: 29
  • 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
Museums: 18
  • 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
Attractions: 17
Artworks: 16
Nature reserves: 12
Cliffs: 11
Springs: 5
Picnic sites: 5
  • 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
Beaches: 1
  • Lake Powhatan Beach: 9.9 mi
Covered bridges: 1
  • 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.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Rich KnobNE 46°1,500 m7.3 mi
Bull MountainNE 48°1,473 m7.6 mi
Rocky KnobNE 48°1,433 m6.8 mi
Richland MountainNE 43°1,429 m7.3 mi
Richland KnobNE 43°1,429 m7.3 mi
Courthouse KnobNE 38°1,322 m7.4 mi
High SwanNE 50°1,300 m6.2 mi
Rice KnobNE 38°1,219 m4.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3519:0919:42
June solstice06:1620:1220:50
September equinox07:1918:5519:29
December solstice07:3716:4217:21

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F384248576572757468584841
Precip in3.32.93.53.73.53.44.13.63.72.63.03.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Asheville, 1 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357806434

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