Browns Knob
Browns Knob rises to 469 m in West Virginia. Limestone Mountain stands 945 m to the east-southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Valley Falls State Park, a nature reserve 2.7 miles away. Northwestern Turnpike passes 2.2 miles off. 32 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31513341, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 469 m
How to reach it
- 2.2 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
- 19.7 mi off the Old Route 7 Byway
- 21.7 mi off the Cheat River Byway
- 25.8 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Fetterman/Castle Creek Park: 3.9 mi
- Walnut Street Playground: 4.6 mi
- Grafton Downtown Commerical Historic District: 4.8 mi
- Heritage Park: 5.0 mi
- Mothers Day Shrine: 5.2 mi
- Plummer Knob: 3.6 mi
- Copeland Knob: 4.1 mi
- Patton Knob: 4.2 mi
- Pewee Knob: 4.4 mi
- Bald Knob: 7.0 mi
- Robert H. Mollohan Research Center Tower: 6.6 mi
- Korean War Memorial: 7.5 mi
- Vietnam War Memorial: 7.6 mi
- WV Counties Monument: 7.9 mi
- Monongalia County War Memorial: 19.7 mi
- Telephone Museum: 8.6 mi
- Marion County Historical Society: 8.7 mi
- Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center: 8.9 mi
- Bice-Ferguson Museum: 10.3 mi
- Covered Bridge Museum: 14.9 mi
- Valley Falls State Park: 2.7 mi
- Tom's Run Nature Preserve: 14.5 mi
- Little Indian Creek Wildlife Management Area: 15.7 mi
- LIttle Indian Creek Wildlife Managment ARea: 16.8 mi
- Core Arboretum: 20.8 mi
- Maniac Mountain: 21.0 mi
- Climbing: 23.4 mi
- Climbing and Rappelling: 23.7 mi
- Riverside Spot: 24.2 mi
- Little Falls: 14.5 mi
- Matador Falls: 24.7 mi
- Don Knotts: 20.4 mi
- From The Mountain: 21.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Browns Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limestone Mountain | ESE 113° | 945 m | 24.1 mi |
| Thorn Knob | SSE 146° | 887 m | 24.3 mi |
| Texas Mountain | SE 129° | 857 m | 21.6 mi |
| Pifer Mountain | SE 124° | 835 m | 22.3 mi |
| Mount Phoebe | ENE 65° | 715 m | 20.7 mi |
| Reed Hill | NE 41° | 675 m | 23.7 mi |
| Cannon Hill | E 91° | 621 m | 23.7 mi |
| King Knob | S 178° | 601 m | 12.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:25 | 18:57 | 19:33 |
| June solstice | 05:55 | 20:11 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:09 | 18:44 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:38 | 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 | 30 | 33 | 40 | 51 | 60 | 67 | 71 | 70 | 64 | 53 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.5 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tygart DAM, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1553992 — Browns Knob, Taylor County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356524712
Day trips start here
- Grafton · 5 mi
- Fairmont · 8 mi
- Bridgeport · 9 mi
- Shinnston · 10 mi
- Clarksburg · 14 mi
- Morgantown · 21 mi
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