Cave Mountain
Cave Mountain rises to 854 m in West Virginia. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the west-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Smoke Hole, a ghost town 1.0 miles away.
The story
Mountain in West Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31538448, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 854 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- High Knob: 2.9 mi
- Champe Rocks: 3.7 mi
- Champe Knobs: 4.1 mi
- Little Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Big Mountain: 4.4 mi
- Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area: 2.8 mi
- Dam Site Seven Park: 5.7 mi
- Potomac Wildlife Management Area: 6.8 mi
- Ruddle Park: 8.0 mi
- Dolly Sods Picnic Area: 9.2 mi
- Hall Spring: 15.5 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 15.7 mi
- Sand Spring: 16.2 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 18.1 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 23.0 mi
- Eagle Rock: 1.9 mi
- Lower Slabs: 5.2 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 5.3 mi
- Southern Pillar: 5.3 mi
- Baker Rocks: 15.9 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 12.0 mi
- Small waterfall: 13.8 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 13.9 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 21.6 mi
- Elakala Falls: 21.7 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 8.6 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 11.4 mi
- Moorefield Historic District: 22.1 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 22.2 mi
- Smoke Hole: 1.0 mi
- Stringtown: 14.6 mi
- Mill Run: 18.8 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 13.5 mi
- Stony River Dam: 20.1 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 23.7 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 15.2 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 16.9 mi
- Lost River State Park: 20.7 mi
- Sites Homestead: 5.6 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 5.6 mi
- Blue Hole Day Use Area: 18.9 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 22.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of Cave Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | WNW 300° | 1,452 m | 11.5 mi |
| Green Knob | WNW 291° | 1,424 m | 10.0 mi |
| Haystack Knob | WNW 294° | 1,376 m | 9.8 mi |
| Kisamore Hill | W 260° | 1,289 m | 10.4 mi |
| Breathed Mountain | NNW 334° | 1,173 m | 11.4 mi |
| Coal Knob | NNW 329° | 1,148 m | 11.3 mi |
| Smith Mountain | WNW 293° | 1,087 m | 6.8 mi |
| North Fork Peak | N 359° | 1,083 m | 6.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 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 | 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, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356523411
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