Bootleg Mountain
Bootleg Mountain rises to 550 m in South Carolina. Buck Knob stands 1,212 m to the northwest, 8.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Bootleg Access Area, a park 0.9 miles away. Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway passes 4.6 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31656085, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 550 m
How to reach it
- 4.6 mi off the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway, National
- 6.1 mi off the Whitewater Way
- 7.6 mi off the Oscar Wigington Scenic Byway
- 8.1 mi off the Waterfall Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Whitewater Falls Overlook · 6 mi
- Gorges Overlook · 7 mi
- Grant Meadow Overlook · 13 mi
- Chandler Rock Overlook · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Bootleg Access Area: 0.9 mi
- Dug Mountain Angler Access Area: 4.4 mi
- Camp Cedar Creek: 5.4 mi
- Sloan Bridge Picnic Area: 7.8 mi
- DAR Monument: 9.4 mi
- Devils Hole Creek Falls: 1.6 mi
- Prince Cove Falls: 2.2 mi
- Cane Creek Falls: 2.5 mi
- Laurel Fork Falls: 2.9 mi
- Never Ending Falls: 2.9 mi
- Bully Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Bryant Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Piney Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Double Spring Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Laurel Fork Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Air Force B25C Plane Crash Memorial: 9.4 mi
- General Pickens Monument: 11.2 mi
- Oconee Station: 13.5 mi
- Chattooga Town: 15.6 mi
- Cateechee Mill: 17.1 mi
- Chattooga Cliffs: 12.1 mi
- Cedar Cliff: 13.7 mi
- Sheep Cliff: 14.1 mi
- Wildcat Cliffs: 15.1 mi
- Sunset Rock: 15.7 mi
- The Real American Tea Museum: 13.2 mi
- World of Energy: 13.7 mi
- Irma Morris Museum of Fine Arts: 14.1 mi
- Pickens County Museum of Art & History: 14.3 mi
- Highlands Nature Center: 15.9 mi
- The Twelve Mile Defense Bear: 14.0 mi
- Devil's Kitchen: 18.0 mi
- Oconee County Cage: 18.0 mi
- Bear Lake Reserve: 18.2 mi
- M1: 19.4 mi
- Satulah Mountain Preserves: 16.0 mi
- Ralph and Louise Sargent Preserve: 16.0 mi
- Kelsey Trail Preserve: 16.1 mi
- Brushy Face Preserve: 16.6 mi
- Bracken Preserve: 19.4 mi
- Illuminated Chroma Wind Trees: 22.2 mi
- Spiral Mesh: 22.3 mi
- All In: 22.3 mi
- Shift-Ascend: 22.4 mi
- Six Degrees of Freedom: 22.5 mi
- Sandstone Beach: 1.7 mi
- North Beach: 10.8 mi
- South Beach: 12.4 mi
- Sandbar Pool Beach: 13.2 mi
- East Beach: 22.2 mi
- Cool Spring: 6.2 mi
- Moody Spring: 10.4 mi
- Indian Spring: 17.8 mi
- Common Gardening: 12.3 mi
- English Garden: 14.2 mi
- Brevard Community Garden: 18.9 mi
- South: 12.4 mi
- Coontree Picnic Area: 22.1 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 22.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.3 miles of Bootleg Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buck Knob | NW 308° | 1,212 m | 8.1 mi |
| Flat Mountain | WNW 291° | 1,198 m | 8.0 mi |
| Waddle Mountain | WNW 302° | 1,160 m | 7.6 mi |
| Rocky Knobs | NNW 330° | 1,139 m | 6.9 mi |
| Roundtop | NNW 341° | 1,051 m | 8.0 mi |
| Grassy Knob | WNW 291° | 1,040 m | 6.6 mi |
| Persimmon Mountain | W 269° | 933 m | 7.5 mi |
| Roundtop Mountain | ENE 66° | 929 m | 8.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:10 | 19:44 |
| June solstice | 06:19 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:57 | 19:30 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:45 | 17:24 |
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 | 37 | 40 | 46 | 54 | 62 | 68 | 71 | 70 | 65 | 55 | 46 | 40 |
| Precip in | 8.7 | 7.1 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 7.0 | 7.8 | 9.4 | 8.9 | 9.4 | 6.7 | 7.7 | 8.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lake Toxaway 2 SW, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1246945 — Bootleg Mountain, Pickens County, South Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357116785
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