Beech Mountain
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Beech Mountain rises to 1,663 m in North Carolina. Calloway Peak stands 1,804 m to the southeast, 6.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Pinnacles of the Beech, a peak 0.1 miles away. Mission Crossing passes 1.5 miles off.
The story
Beech Mountain is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country and wholly in the Pisgah National Forest. Its elevation reaches 5,506 feet (1,657 m) and generates feeder streams for the Elk River. Nestled on the top is the Town of Beech Mountain.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q4879594, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,663 m
How to reach it
- 1.5 mi off the Mission Crossing
- 7.1 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 7.1 mi off the Little Parkway
- 13.7 mi off the US 421 Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Watauga View · 6 mi
- Calloway Peak · 6 mi
- Storyteller Rock · 7 mi
- Patio View of MacRae Peak · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- She Falls Falls: 1.7 mi
- Buckeye Creek Falls: 3.0 mi
- Otter Falls: 4.8 mi
- Laurel Creek Falls: 5.0 mi
- Crab Orchard Falls: 5.0 mi
- Pinnacles of the Beech: 0.1 mi
- Hemlock Hill: 2.0 mi
- Rocky Knob: 2.3 mi
- Double Knobs: 2.7 mi
- Toms Knob: 2.8 mi
- Wynn Memorial Park: 0.6 mi
- Corner on Main: 1.6 mi
- Swank Park: 1.6 mi
- Tate-Evans Park: 1.7 mi
- Tufts Memorial Park: 2.5 mi
- Wilderness Run Alpine Coaster: 4.2 mi
- Greater Foscoe Mining Company: 6.4 mi
- Mountain Magic Resort: 6.9 mi
- Linn Cove Viaduct: 7.4 mi
- Stack Rock: 7.4 mi
- Buck Ridge Lookout Tower: 6.6 mi
- Law Enforcement Memorial: 7.2 mi
- Avery County Veterans Memorial: 7.2 mi
- Watauga County Veterans Memorial: 11.3 mi
- Earth Day 2011: 11.5 mi
- Flattop Cliffs: 5.1 mi
- High Point Cliff: 6.5 mi
- Hayes Bluff: 6.8 mi
- Linville Bluffs: 6.9 mi
- Scheer Bluffs: 6.9 mi
- The Rock: 11.1 mi
- Hellbenders: 11.2 mi
- Doc and Merle Watson: 11.2 mi
- Hephaestus: 11.3 mi
- Daniel Boone and his Hunting Dogs: 11.3 mi
- Beech Mountain History Museum: 0.5 mi
- Wilson Center for Nature Discovery: 7.0 mi
- Avery County Musuem: 7.2 mi
- Moses Cone Manor: 10.8 mi
- Blowing Rock 1888 Museum: 11.9 mi
- Cliffside Picnic Area: 6.8 mi
- Forrest Gump Picnic Area: 6.9 mi
- Woods Walk: 7.1 mi
- Julian Price Memorial Park Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
- Twin Springs Picnic Area: 12.2 mi
- Watauga Extension Educational Garden: 11.1 mi
- Sustainable Development Civic Garden Project: 11.1 mi
- Fred Webb Jr. Outdoor Geology Laboratory and Rock Garden: 11.3 mi
- Appalachian Roots Garden: 11.6 mi
- Daniel Boone Native Gardens: 11.8 mi
- Elk Valley Preserve: 2.0 mi
- Peak Mountain Conservation Area: 4.6 mi
- Foscoe Wetland Conservation Area: 5.6 mi
- Appalachian State University Nature Preserve: 10.8 mi
- Tater Hill Lake Basin Habitat Preservation: 11.5 mi
- Shanty Springs: 6.2 mi
- Bear Wallow Spring: 7.0 mi
- Hampton Spring: 17.7 mi
- Water Tree (Blackgum Springs): 24.1 mi
- Gully Pipe: 24.4 mi
- Watauga County US 221 Rest Area: 10.3 mi
- Brown Mountain View: 16.9 mi
- Shook Branch Swimming Area: 16.0 mi
- Riverside Park Beach Access: 21.4 mi
- Mortimer: 15.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.9 miles of Beech Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calloway Peak | SE 142° | 1,804 m | 6.4 mi |
| Hump Mountain | WSW 247° | 1,688 m | 7.9 mi |
| Pinnacles of the Beech | S 180° | 1,652 m | 0.1 mi |
| Little Hump Mountain | WSW 245° | 1,587 m | 8.9 mi |
| Sugar Mountain | S 176° | 1,585 m | 4.2 mi |
| Hanging Rock | ESE 124° | 1,582 m | 3.8 mi |
| Rocky Knob | ENE 59° | 1,502 m | 2.3 mi |
| Flattop Mountain | SSE 167° | 1,502 m | 4.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:32 | 19:06 | 19:40 |
| June solstice | 06:11 | 20:11 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:52 | 19:26 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:37 | 17:17 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 27 | 29 | 36 | 45 | 53 | 60 | 63 | 62 | 57 | 48 | 38 | 32 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Beech MTN, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1019056 — Beech Mountain, Avery County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357806463
Day trips start here
- Elizabethton · 23 mi
- Johnson City · 28 mi
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