Busbee Mountain
Busbee Mountain rises to 1,063 m in North Carolina. High Hickory Knob stands 1,231 m to the east-northeast, 7.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Ballantree neighborhood park, a park 0.9 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 0.6 miles off.
The story
Mountain in the United States of America.
Wikidata Q31619223, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,063 m
How to reach it
- 0.6 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 5.6 mi off the Drovers Road
- 11.8 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
- 13.3 mi off the French Broad Overview
Overlooks nearby
- French Broad River Overlook · 5 mi
- French Broad Overlook · 5 mi
- Haw Creek Valley (MP 380.0) · 7 mi
- View Chesnut Cove · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Baldwin Gap: 1.1 mi
- Merrill Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Butler Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Blake Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Frady Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Puncheon Camp Creek Falls: 9.7 mi
- Little Bearwallow Falls: 10.0 mi
- Bead and Lace Falls: 10.6 mi
- Tom's Falls: 11.3 mi
- Lake Louise Falls: 12.1 mi
- Ballantree neighborhood park: 0.9 mi
- Ray L Kisiah Park: 1.7 mi
- Brooklawn Park: 2.1 mi
- Rosebank Park: 2.3 mi
- Murphy-Oakley Park: 2.9 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 5.4 mi
- The Bunkum Stone: 5.5 mi
- Young Men's Institute: 5.7 mi
- Thomas Wolfe Memorial: 5.9 mi
- Jeter C. Pritchard Historical Marker: 6.3 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 2.2 mi
- Spring Garden: 2.8 mi
- Azalea Garden: 2.9 mi
- Walled Garden: 2.9 mi
- Shrub Garden: 3.0 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 5.7 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 5.8 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 5.8 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 5.9 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 5.9 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 3.8 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 5.0 mi
- Ironland: 5.8 mi
- WNC Agricultural Center: 6.7 mi
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: 6.9 mi
- Statue of Diana: 2.8 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 5.1 mi
- TebbeArt Studios: 5.2 mi
- JMK236 Studio: 5.2 mi
- Wake: 5.3 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 2.6 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 6.8 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 8.3 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 9.7 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 14.3 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 2.0 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 14.1 mi
- Jump Off Rock: 14.4 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 15.5 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 15.5 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 11.2 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 15.9 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 20.7 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 21.7 mi
- Coontree Picnic Area: 21.7 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 12.0 mi
- Crystal Spring: 14.5 mi
- Lenox Spring: 14.9 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 18.2 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 18.3 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 6.7 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 6.7 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 7.4 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 13.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.6 miles of Busbee Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Hickory Knob | ENE 59° | 1,231 m | 7.2 mi |
| Flat Top | ENE 60° | 1,215 m | 7.3 mi |
| Big Cedar Mountain | NE 51° | 1,159 m | 3.7 mi |
| Blue Ridge Pastures | ESE 112° | 1,152 m | 8.1 mi |
| Peach Knob | N 4° | 1,150 m | 8.2 mi |
| Bank Mountain | SE 137° | 1,128 m | 8.3 mi |
| Ferguson Peak | ESE 107° | 1,101 m | 8.2 mi |
| Butler Mountain | ENE 71° | 1,086 m | 2.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:16 | 20:12 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| 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 | 35 | 38 | 45 | 54 | 62 | 69 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 38 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bent Creek, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1019438 — Busbee Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357806854
Day trips start here
- Asheville · 5 mi
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