Big Piney Mountain
Big Piney Mountain rises to 649 m in Virginia. Bald Knob stands 1,232 m to the northeast, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Pond Mountain, a peak 1.1 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 0.7 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49012686, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 649 m
How to reach it
- 0.7 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 21.3 mi off the Highlands Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- House Mountain Overlook · 4 mi
- Buena Vista Overlook · 7 mi
- Chimney Rock Mountain Overlook · 8 mi
- White's Gap Overlook · 8 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Pond Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Little Apple Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Peavine Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Bluff Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Rice Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Otter Creek Recreation Area: 4.4 mi
- Laurel Park: 6.6 mi
- Penny Park: 6.9 mi
- Glen Maury Park: 7.0 mi
- Knick Field: 7.1 mi
- Otto Cline Powell monument: 2.1 mi
- Indian and Settler Conflict: 6.6 mi
- Old Mine Entrance: 8.9 mi
- Glenwood Furnace: 10.6 mi
- Colonel Claudius Crozet: 12.2 mi
- Monacan Ancestral Museum: 11.5 mi
- Saint Paul's Mission School: 11.5 mi
- Rockbridge Historical Society: 12.1 mi
- Stonewall Jackson House: 12.1 mi
- Virginia Military Institute Museum: 12.3 mi
- Padgett Obelisk: 7.2 mi
- Knight Statue: 7.2 mi
- Peristyle: 7.3 mi
- George Washington: 12.3 mi
- The Cannonball: 12.3 mi
- HumanKind and Hill City Master Gardener Davis Instructional Garden: 14.8 mi
- Randolph College Organic Garden: 15.9 mi
- Rain Garden: 16.8 mi
- Daniel's Hill Garden: 17.3 mi
- Daniel's Hill Center Garden: 17.7 mi
- Devils Marbleyard: 9.3 mi
- Dinosaur Kingdom II: 11.7 mi
- Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson: 12.0 mi
- Caverns at Natural Bridge: 12.1 mi
- Natural Bridge of Virginia: 12.4 mi
- Marble Spring: 8.0 mi
- Sulphur Spring: 9.0 mi
- Hunting Spring: 9.4 mi
- Cow Camp Spring: 9.6 mi
- Wiggins Spring: 10.5 mi
- Mt. Pleasant Roadless Area: 10.1 mi
- Brushy Hills Preserve: 13.9 mi
- Carry Nature Sanctuary: 14.5 mi
- Hollins Mill Park: 17.3 mi
- Lake Robertson: 19.6 mi
- Panther Falls: 5.0 mi
- Lace Falls: 12.9 mi
- Apple Orchard Falls: 14.4 mi
- Falling Water Cascades: 18.2 mi
- St. Mary's Falls: 23.2 mi
- Lovers Leap: 14.1 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 23.0 mi
- Fairfield Safety Rest Area: 16.4 mi
- J.H. Phillips Wayside: 24.6 mi
- Cascade Falls Picnic Area: 12.2 mi
- Chris Lantos Waterfront: 23.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.9 miles of Big Piney Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | NE 37° | 1,232 m | 8.8 mi |
| Buck Mountain | NNE 31° | 1,025 m | 8.6 mi |
| Bluff Mountain | NW 315° | 1,015 m | 2.1 mi |
| Highcock Knob | SW 232° | 931 m | 8.4 mi |
| Big Rocky Row | W 266° | 910 m | 3.9 mi |
| Silas Knob | WNW 288° | 904 m | 2.5 mi |
| Fletcher Mountain | NE 43° | 888 m | 7.8 mi |
| Whites Peak | N 6° | 881 m | 9.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:57 | 20:04 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 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, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356570515
Day trips start here
- Lynchburg · 18 mi
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