Butt Mountain
Butt Mountain rises to 1,137 m in North Carolina. Big Bald stands 1,674 m to the north, 5.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Wooded Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Interstate 26 Scenic Highway passes 3.4 miles off.
The story
mountain in Madison County, North Carolina, United States of America
Wikidata Q31619289, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1137 m
How to reach it
- 3.4 mi off the Interstate 26 Scenic Highway
- 12.7 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 14.1 mi off the Appalachian Medley
- 13.7 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Walker Knob Overlook (MP 359.8) · 14 mi
- Glassmine Falls Overlook (MP 361.2) · 14 mi
- Graybeard Mountain View (MP 363.4) · 15 mi
- Craggy Gardens · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Wooded Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Sally Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Ed Knob: 1.9 mi
- High Peak: 1.9 mi
- Stony Knob: 2.5 mi
- Upper Laurel Community Center Park: 3.3 mi
- Mars Hill Recreation Park: 7.3 mi
- Burnsville Town Square: 10.4 mi
- Ray–Cort Recreation Park: 10.4 mi
- Lincoln Park: 10.6 mi
- Trillium Falls: 10.1 mi
- Big Creek Falls: 11.0 mi
- Falling Water Branch Falls: 12.2 mi
- Walker Falls: 12.8 mi
- Lower Higgins Creek Falls: 12.9 mi
- Moye Rest: 5.6 mi
- Otway Burns: 10.4 mi
- Yancey County Veterans Memorial: 10.4 mi
- Yancey County Confederate Soldiers Monument: 10.4 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 13.5 mi
- Friends: 10.4 mi
- Black Mountain Range: 10.4 mi
- Rock Bridge: 10.4 mi
- Stream: 10.4 mi
- Petal & Leaves: 10.4 mi
- Baxter Cliff: 14.3 mi
- Whiterock Cliff: 14.7 mi
- Blackstack Cliffs: 15.0 mi
- Blackstack Cliffs: 15.0 mi
- Stony Point: 17.2 mi
- Rural Heritage Museum: 6.6 mi
- McElroy House: 10.3 mi
- The Lloyd Bailey Annex: 10.3 mi
- Mt Mitchell Museum: 15.7 mi
- Dry Ridge Historical Museum: 15.7 mi
- Mountain Gardens: 15.7 mi
- Terrace garden: 15.7 mi
- Camp Celo Gardens: 17.7 mi
- Griffing Rose Garden: 19.6 mi
- Elder & Sage Community Garden: 21.8 mi
- Navitat Canopy Adventures: 8.0 mi
- Little Snowball Lookout Tower: 10.5 mi
- French Broad Rafting: 14.1 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 20.8 mi
- Buck Creek Trout Farm: 21.7 mi
- Marshall Nature Sanctuary: 12.9 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 14.0 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 17.6 mi
- Rocky Knob: 18.3 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 19.3 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 15.7 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 17.2 mi
- Overlook Access: 20.9 mi
- Murray Branch Recreation Area: 21.8 mi
- Love Road Picnic: 22.1 mi
- Cold Spring: 17.4 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 18.3 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 18.8 mi
- Big Rock Spring: 23.5 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 24.1 mi
- Lost Cove: 12.2 mi
- Riverside Park Beach Access: 23.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.7 miles of Butt Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bald | N 357° | 1,674 m | 5.7 mi |
| Big Stamp | N 357° | 1,639 m | 5.9 mi |
| Little Bald | N 11° | 1,575 m | 7.1 mi |
| Upper Haw Knob | N 350° | 1,492 m | 3.5 mi |
| Sampson Mountain | NNE 34° | 1,454 m | 4.3 mi |
| Elk Wallow Knob | N 6° | 1,452 m | 2.9 mi |
| Firescald Mountain | NNE 24° | 1,442 m | 3.3 mi |
| Sampson Peak | NNE 33° | 1,442 m | 4.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:15 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:41 | 17:20 |
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 | 36 | 39 | 45 | 54 | 61 | 69 | 72 | 70 | 65 | 55 | 45 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burnsville AG, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1019445 — Butt Mountain, Madison County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357806861
Day trips start here
- Asheville · 23 mi
- Johnson City · 29 mi
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