Bulls Head
Bulls Head rises to 838 m in West Virginia. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the west, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Mountain, a peak 1.7 miles away. Mountain Maryland Byway passes 27 miles off.
The story
mountain in the United States of America
Wikidata Q31518116, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 838 m
How to reach it
- 26.8 mi off the Mountain Maryland Byway
- 29.8 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
Named places within 25 miles
- Big Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Castle Rock: 1.9 mi
- Dayton Knob: 2.0 mi
- Bulls Head: 2.6 mi
- Chimney Top: 3.2 mi
- Echo Park: 3.1 mi
- Petersburg City Park: 5.6 mi
- Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area: 6.3 mi
- Michael Brothers Memorial Park: 6.6 mi
- Dam Site Seven Park: 6.8 mi
- Eagle Rock: 9.3 mi
- Baker Rocks: 10.3 mi
- Lower Slabs: 11.2 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 11.3 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 11.3 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 17.3 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 18.8 mi
- Elakala Falls: 19.2 mi
- Small waterfall: 19.9 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 20.1 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 14.6 mi
- Hall Spring: 20.3 mi
- Sand Spring: 20.5 mi
- Stranderman Spring: 22.4 mi
- Shenandoah Alum Springs: 23.9 mi
- Stony River Dam: 14.2 mi
- Stony River Dam: 14.2 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 19.8 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 20.9 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 20.9 mi
- Smoke Hole: 7.1 mi
- Stringtown: 14.5 mi
- Mill Run: 18.7 mi
- Kempton: 23.4 mi
- Moorefield Historic District: 15.5 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 15.7 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 17.8 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 19.4 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 12.1 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 13.8 mi
- Lost River State Park: 17.0 mi
- Sites Homestead: 11.5 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 11.6 mi
- Blue Hole Day Use Area: 19.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.2 miles of Bulls Head. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | W 266° | 1,452 m | 13.2 mi |
| Green Knob | WSW 256° | 1,424 m | 12.9 mi |
| Haystack Knob | WSW 258° | 1,376 m | 12.5 mi |
| Weiss Knob | WNW 287° | 1,359 m | 12.3 mi |
| Bald Knob | WNW 291° | 1,332 m | 12.5 mi |
| Cabin Mountain | WNW 291° | 1,331 m | 12.0 mi |
| Cabin | WNW 298° | 1,304 m | 11.7 mi |
| Bear Rocks | NNW 332° | 1,222 m | 10.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:52 | 20:06 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:40 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:17 | 16:59 |
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 | 34 | 36 | 44 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 76 | 74 | 67 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Petersburg, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1550557 — Bulls Head, Grant County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356523356
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