Bulls Head
Bulls Head rises to 542 m in West Virginia. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the west, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Castle Rock, a peak 0.9 miles away. Mountain Maryland Byway passes 29 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31518101, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 542 m
How to reach it
- 28.7 mi off the Mountain Maryland Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Castle Rock: 0.9 mi
- High Knob: 2.3 mi
- North Fork Peak: 2.4 mi
- Champe Knobs: 3.2 mi
- River Knob: 3.3 mi
- Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area: 3.8 mi
- Echo Park: 5.2 mi
- Dam Site Seven Park: 5.8 mi
- Dolly Sods Picnic Area: 7.1 mi
- Petersburg City Park: 8.1 mi
- Eagle Rock: 6.7 mi
- Lower Slabs: 8.7 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 8.8 mi
- Southern Pillar: 8.9 mi
- Baker Rocks: 12.3 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 14.2 mi
- Hall Spring: 18.8 mi
- Sand Spring: 19.1 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 22.4 mi
- Stranderman Spring: 24.1 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 15.0 mi
- Small waterfall: 17.5 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 17.6 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 19.1 mi
- Elakala Falls: 19.4 mi
- Smoke Hole: 4.5 mi
- Stringtown: 13.7 mi
- Mill Run: 18.0 mi
- Kempton: 24.2 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 13.1 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 15.7 mi
- Moorefield Historic District: 17.9 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 19.7 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 13.2 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 13.4 mi
- Lost River State Park: 18.4 mi
- Stony River Dam: 15.8 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 17.3 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 21.2 mi
- Sites Homestead: 9.0 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 9.1 mi
- Blue Hole Day Use Area: 19.4 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 23.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.0 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 276° | 1,452 m | 11.7 mi |
| Green Knob | W 265° | 1,424 m | 11.1 mi |
| Haystack Knob | W 267° | 1,376 m | 10.7 mi |
| Weiss Knob | WNW 299° | 1,359 m | 11.7 mi |
| Bald Knob | WNW 303° | 1,332 m | 12.1 mi |
| Cabin Mountain | WNW 303° | 1,331 m | 11.6 mi |
| Cabin | NW 311° | 1,304 m | 11.6 mi |
| High Mountain | W 272° | 1,287 m | 12.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:06 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 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, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1556997 — Bulls Head, Grant County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356526705
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