Bull Mountain
Bull Mountain rises to 758 m in North Carolina. Lane Pinnacle stands 1,583 m to the north-northeast, 7.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Charlie L. Bullman Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway runs past it.
The story
Mountain in North Carolina, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31618909, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 758 m
How to reach it
- On the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 7.1 mi off the Drovers Road
- 8.8 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 9.6 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Cisco Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Piney Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Hemphill Knob: 1.9 mi
- Jones Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Rich Knob: 2.4 mi
- Lake Louise Falls: 7.7 mi
- Reems Creek Falls: 9.0 mi
- Cascades Falls: 10.5 mi
- Douglas Falls: 10.8 mi
- Little Bearwallow Falls: 12.3 mi
- Charlie L. Bullman Park: 0.7 mi
- Haw Creek Park: 0.8 mi
- Anne Patton Joyce Park: 0.9 mi
- Asheville Recreation Park: 1.1 mi
- Masters Park: 1.1 mi
- Overlook Castle: 2.6 mi
- Young Men's Institute: 3.3 mi
- The Bunkum Stone: 3.3 mi
- Thomas Wolfe Memorial: 3.3 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 3.4 mi
- Elder & Sage Community Garden: 3.6 mi
- Griffing Rose Garden: 3.7 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 4.0 mi
- Italian Garden: 5.2 mi
- Shrub Garden: 5.2 mi
- Tebbé Davies Fine Art Studios: 2.0 mi
- Wake: 3.5 mi
- Deco Gecko: 3.6 mi
- Flat Iron Statue: 3.6 mi
- Passage: 3.7 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 3.3 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 3.3 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 3.4 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 3.5 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 3.7 mi
- Ironland: 3.6 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 4.4 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 5.4 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 5.9 mi
- WNC Agricultural Center: 11.9 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 4.5 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 5.9 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 7.8 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 10.3 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 10.5 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 7.0 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 12.0 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 16.8 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 18.2 mi
- The Pinnacles: 18.3 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 10.4 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 14.5 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 14.6 mi
- Crystal Spring: 19.6 mi
- Lenox Spring: 19.9 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 15.7 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 17.4 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 19.4 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 21.7 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 11.9 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 11.9 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 10.9 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 16.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.6 miles of Bull Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lane Pinnacle | NNE 34° | 1,583 m | 7.1 mi |
| Wolfden Knob | NNE 29° | 1,493 m | 6.8 mi |
| Bull Mountain | NNE 28° | 1,473 m | 6.5 mi |
| Rocky Knob | NNE 25° | 1,433 m | 5.8 mi |
| Richland Knob | NNE 21° | 1,429 m | 6.4 mi |
| Richland Mountain | NNE 21° | 1,429 m | 6.4 mi |
| Courthouse Knob | NNE 17° | 1,322 m | 6.8 mi |
| High Swan | NNE 25° | 1,300 m | 5.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:15 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:42 | 17:21 |
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 | 38 | 42 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 75 | 74 | 68 | 58 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Asheville, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357806817
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- Asheville · 4 mi
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