Bills Mountain
Bills Mountain rises to 559 m in North Carolina. Sugarloaf Mountain stands 1,208 m to the west-southwest, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Canopy Ridge Farm, a attraction 1.9 miles away. Black Mountain Rag passes 3.2 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31617245, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 559 m
How to reach it
- 3.2 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
- 8.1 mi off the Drovers Road
- 16.0 mi off the Pacolet River Byway
- 18.0 mi off the South Mountain Scenery
Overlooks nearby
- Vista Rock · 6 mi
- Pulpit Rock · 6 mi
- Opera Box · 6 mi
- Devil's Head · 6 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Dittmer-Watts Nature Trail Park: 3.2 mi
- Morse Park: 4.8 mi
- Buffalo Creek Park: 5.0 mi
- Chimney Rock Village River Park: 5.5 mi
- The Gathering Place: 6.0 mi
- Bottomless Pools: 5.1 mi
- Pool Creek Falls: 6.3 mi
- Upper Pool Creek Falls: 6.3 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 6.4 mi
- Hickory Nut Falls: 6.5 mi
- Buzzards Roost: 2.3 mi
- Grassy Knob: 3.1 mi
- Youngs Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Fairfield Mountain: 3.8 mi
- Party Rock: 4.0 mi
- Edneyville High School Monument: 11.5 mi
- Susie Skinner Clarke Hamilton: 12.5 mi
- Battle of Round Mountain Monument: 13.2 mi
- Doughboy Statue: 13.2 mi
- Arrowhead Monument: 13.4 mi
- Bechtler House: 11.4 mi
- KidSenses Children's INTERACTIVE Museum: 11.6 mi
- House of Flags: 13.2 mi
- Mountain Gateway Museum: 13.3 mi
- Polk County History Museum: 13.3 mi
- Canopy Ridge Farm: 1.9 mi
- Grady's Animal Discovery Den: 5.6 mi
- McDowell Tourism Authority: 13.3 mi
- Caboose: 18.1 mi
- Pacolet River Passenger Car: 18.2 mi
- Worlds Edge: 6.8 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 7.6 mi
- The Pinnacles: 7.7 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 8.4 mi
- Cedar Cliff: 16.9 mi
- Columbarium Garden: 15.1 mi
- Dr. John Wilson Community Garden: 15.8 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 19.4 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 22.9 mi
- Spring Garden: 23.9 mi
- Lake Lure Green Space: 3.0 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 11.5 mi
- Bat Fork Bog Site: 18.6 mi
- Rocky Knob: 19.6 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 20.2 mi
- Globe: 11.3 mi
- Blue Ridge Assembly: 15.7 mi
- Orange Bear: 17.8 mi
- Tebbé Davies Fine Art Studios: 22.4 mi
- Statue of Diana: 23.8 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 14.0 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 19.5 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 19.9 mi
- Lenox Spring: 20.4 mi
- Crystal Spring: 21.5 mi
- Marion Rest Area - Eastbound: 15.6 mi
- Marion Rest Area - Westbound: 15.7 mi
- McDowell County Rest Area: 15.7 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 21.7 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 21.7 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 23.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Bills Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugarloaf Mountain | WSW 253° | 1,208 m | 7.4 mi |
| Shumont Mountain | WNW 291° | 1,156 m | 6.0 mi |
| Round Mountain | NNW 328° | 1,049 m | 8.2 mi |
| Weed Patch Mountain | NW 312° | 1,039 m | 6.2 mi |
| Stony Mountain | W 260° | 1,039 m | 7.4 mi |
| Cedar Knob | WNW 285° | 1,021 m | 6.3 mi |
| Rich Mountain | W 266° | 1,001 m | 7.3 mi |
| Stone Mountain | NW 318° | 998 m | 7.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:33 | 19:07 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:15 | 20:10 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:17 | 18:54 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:41 | 17:20 |
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 | 39 | 42 | 49 | 58 | 66 | 74 | 77 | 76 | 70 | 60 | 49 | 42 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 5.9 | 6.5 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lake Lure 2, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 981489 — Bills Mountain, Rutherford County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357768806
Day trips start here
- Asheville · 25 mi
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