Castle Mountain
Castle Mountain rises to 1,032 m in West Virginia. Spruce Knob stands 1,482 m to the west-northwest, 7.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Moser Knob, a peak 1.5 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 18 miles off.
The story
Castle Mountain is a forested mountain ridge in Pendleton County, West Virginia, in the United States. Running from the southwest to the northeast, the mountain is bounded to its west by North Fork Mountain and to its east by a series of rolling hills.
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Wikidata Q5050190, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1032 m
How to reach it
- 18.0 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 19.2 mi off the Camp Allegheny Backway
- 23.0 mi off the Back Mountain Backway
- 24.3 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Moser Knob: 1.5 mi
- Bible Knob: 1.7 mi
- Pike Knob: 1.8 mi
- Tea Knob: 2.1 mi
- Castle Knob: 2.3 mi
- Thorn Spring Park: 4.5 mi
- Franklin Town Park: 5.0 mi
- Thorn Creek Wildlife Management Area: 6.0 mi
- Ruddle Park: 9.0 mi
- Shenandoah Wildlife Management Area: 11.7 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 7.1 mi
- Locust Spring: 12.9 mi
- Hall Spring: 16.2 mi
- Maple Spring: 17.4 mi
- Rock Lick Spring: 17.9 mi
- Raven Rocks: 6.2 mi
- Southern Pillar: 13.2 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 13.2 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 13.2 mi
- Lower Slabs: 13.4 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 8.3 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 10.3 mi
- Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 15.6 mi
- Eagle’s Sugar Camp: 15.7 mi
- Rexrode’s Sugar Orchard: 17.3 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 9.2 mi
- Camp Bartow Historic Site: 20.6 mi
- Old Sexton Cabin: 21.5 mi
- Fort Edward Johnson (1862): 23.1 mi
- Donald R. Gaudineer Memorial: 23.1 mi
- Locust Springs: 12.9 mi
- Stonewall Ruritan Club Picnic Ground: 19.7 mi
- Mountain House Day Use Area: 23.6 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 24.3 mi
- North River Picnic Area: 24.5 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 9.7 mi
- Small waterfall: 9.9 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 12.5 mi
- High Falls: 21.3 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 13.2 mi
- Sites Homestead: 13.3 mi
- Charles P. Jones Museum: 18.4 mi
- Highland County Museum: 21.7 mi
- Smoke Hole: 16.3 mi
- Gertrude: 19.9 mi
- Stringtown: 23.9 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 22.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Castle Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Knob | WNW 301° | 1,482 m | 7.2 mi |
| Kile Knob | WSW 239° | 1,395 m | 4.0 mi |
| Horse Rock | NNW 329° | 1,374 m | 8.6 mi |
| Panther Knob | SW 216° | 1,371 m | 7.1 mi |
| Snowy Mountain | SW 224° | 1,370 m | 8.9 mi |
| Pike Knob | NW 325° | 1,308 m | 1.8 mi |
| Grassy Mountain | W 273° | 1,265 m | 10.0 mi |
| Brushy Mountain | SSW 210° | 1,258 m | 9.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:55 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:07 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
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 | 33 | 35 | 43 | 52 | 61 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 54 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Franklin 2 NE, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356523401
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