Bickle Knob
Bickle Knob rises to 1,220 m in West Virginia. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the east, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Stuart Knob, a peak 1.1 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 6.0 miles off.
The story
Bickle Knob is a mountain summit located east of Elkins in Randolph County, West Virginia, USA. Easily accessible during warm-weather months, Bickle Knob is also home to one of the few remaining observation towers in Monongahela National Forest.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q4903670, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,220 m
How to reach it
- 6.0 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 9.9 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 23.0 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
- 25.2 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
Named places within 25 miles
- Stuart Knob: 1.1 mi
- Pond Lick Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Kelley Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Big Knob: 3.7 mi
- McGowan Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Stuart Recreation Area: 2.5 mi
- Bear Heaven Recreation Area: 2.8 mi
- Alpena Gap Recreation Site: 3.7 mi
- Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area: 6.0 mi
- Davis Street Park: 6.1 mi
- High Falls: 11.5 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 15.2 mi
- Small waterfall: 16.5 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 16.6 mi
- Elakala Falls: 17.3 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 3.3 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 4.1 mi
- Pat Spring: 4.4 mi
- Harlan Irons Spring: 7.7 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 15.3 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 6.5 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 10.1 mi
- Sites Homestead: 20.4 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 20.4 mi
- Covered Bridge Museum: 22.5 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 6.5 mi
- Wilson Monument: 7.2 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 17.2 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 17.9 mi
- Donald R. Gaudineer Memorial: 22.8 mi
- Mill Run: 11.4 mi
- Stringtown: 14.4 mi
- Gertrude: 18.6 mi
- Kempton: 23.0 mi
- Smoke Hole: 24.7 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 20.8 mi
- Lower Slabs: 20.8 mi
- Southern Pillar: 20.8 mi
- Eagle Rock: 24.8 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 16.2 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 22.2 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 23.3 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 2.7 mi
- Locust Springs: 24.6 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 17.9 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 21.9 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 6.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.2 miles of Bickle Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | E 91° | 1,452 m | 14.8 mi |
| Green Knob | E 99° | 1,424 m | 15.6 mi |
| Pharis Knob | SSE 157° | 1,410 m | 14.5 mi |
| Haystack Knob | E 97° | 1,376 m | 15.9 mi |
| Horse Rock | SE 135° | 1,374 m | 17.6 mi |
| Weiss Knob | ENE 76° | 1,359 m | 16.7 mi |
| Job Knob | ESE 112° | 1,353 m | 12.1 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | ESE 104° | 1,348 m | 11.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:09 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:19 | 17:01 |
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 | 34 | 41 | 52 | 60 | 68 | 71 | 70 | 64 | 53 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elkins- Randolph CO AP, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356524676
Day trips start here
- Buckhannon · 27 mi
Take the scenic way to Bickle Knob.
Byway plans around your taste, mapped places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.