Brown Mountain
Brown Mountain rises to 911 m in North Carolina. Big Cedar Mountain stands 1,159 m to the north-northeast, 5.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Collier Cove Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 2.5 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31618072, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 911 m
How to reach it
- 2.5 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 6.4 mi off the Drovers Road
- 11.4 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
- 13.1 mi off the Historic Flat Rock Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- French Broad Overlook · 5 mi
- French Broad River Overlook · 5 mi
- View Chesnut Cove · 7 mi
- Chestnut Cove Overlook · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Weston Knob: 1.2 mi
- Blake Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Frady Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Crescent Hill: 2.0 mi
- Merrill Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Puncheon Camp Creek Falls: 8.5 mi
- Little Bearwallow Falls: 9.6 mi
- Bead and Lace Falls: 9.9 mi
- Turley Falls: 11.3 mi
- Tom's Falls: 11.3 mi
- Jake Rusher Park: 1.0 mi
- Lake Julian Park: 1.6 mi
- Ballantree neighborhood park: 1.9 mi
- Corcoran Paige River Park: 3.0 mi
- Brooklawn Park: 3.0 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 2.9 mi
- The Bunkum Stone: 7.7 mi
- Young Men's Institute: 7.9 mi
- Thomas Wolfe Memorial: 8.1 mi
- Jeter C. Pritchard Historical Marker: 8.5 mi
- Azalea Garden: 4.3 mi
- Spring Garden: 4.3 mi
- Walled Garden: 4.4 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 4.4 mi
- Shrub Garden: 4.4 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 7.9 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 8.0 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 8.0 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 8.1 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 8.1 mi
- WNC Agricultural Center: 4.2 mi
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: 4.5 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 5.2 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 6.4 mi
- Ironland: 8.0 mi
- Statue of Diana: 4.3 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 7.0 mi
- TebbeArt Studios: 7.1 mi
- JMK236 Studio: 7.1 mi
- Wake: 7.5 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 0.2 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 8.4 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 9.6 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 10.6 mi
- Bat Fork Bog Site: 12.4 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 1.4 mi
- Jump Off Rock: 11.9 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 13.2 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 14.6 mi
- The Pinnacles: 14.6 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 9.4 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 14.6 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 18.5 mi
- Coontree Picnic Area: 19.7 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 23.9 mi
- Crystal Spring: 12.0 mi
- Lenox Spring: 12.4 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 13.4 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 20.3 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 20.3 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 4.2 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 4.2 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 6.6 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 12.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.2 miles of Brown Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Cedar Mountain | NNE 33° | 1,159 m | 5.8 mi |
| Blue Ridge Pastures | E 94° | 1,152 m | 7.9 mi |
| Bank Mountain | ESE 121° | 1,128 m | 6.9 mi |
| Pine Mountain | WSW 252° | 1,121 m | 8.0 mi |
| Double Head | WSW 249° | 1,112 m | 8.0 mi |
| Butler Mountain | NE 36° | 1,086 m | 3.9 mi |
| Bald Top Mountain | ESE 122° | 1,086 m | 7.7 mi |
| Hightop Mountain | SE 137° | 1,082 m | 6.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:16 | 20:12 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:42 | 17:22 |
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 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 75 | 74 | 68 | 58 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Asheville AP, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1009662 — Brown Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357800977
Day trips start here
- Asheville · 7 mi
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