Cedar Mountain
Cedar Mountain rises to 548 m in Virginia. Bald Knob stands 1,232 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Pedlar Mountain, a peak 0.7 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 9.7 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Amherst County, Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49019057, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 548 m
How to reach it
- 9.7 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 24.1 mi off the Lee's Retreat
Overlooks nearby
- House Mountain Overlook · 12 mi
- Buena Vista Overlook · 13 mi
- Chimney Rock Mountain Overlook · 14 mi
- White's Gap Overlook · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Coolwell Park: 6.4 mi
- Izaak Walton Park: 7.3 mi
- Monacan Park: 8.6 mi
- Amherst Wayside: 10.2 mi
- Otter Creek Recreation Area: 10.8 mi
- Pedlar Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Gum Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Bear Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Shady Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Richardson Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Riverside Pool: 11.1 mi
- Constitution Tree Plaque: 11.2 mi
- Even Post: 11.3 mi
- Odd Tree: 11.3 mi
- Otto Cline Powell monument: 11.9 mi
- Monacan Ancestral Museum: 2.0 mi
- Saint Paul's Mission School: 2.0 mi
- Train Station and Caboose: 4.3 mi
- Sweet Briar Museum: 4.4 mi
- Amherst County Historical Museum: 5.0 mi
- Piano: 12.6 mi
- Metal Sculpture: 12.6 mi
- Lynchbug: 12.7 mi
- Mayor: 12.7 mi
- "TOGETHER WE THRIVE": 12.9 mi
- Packet Boat Marshall: 11.1 mi
- Riverside Park Historic Train Exhibit: 11.1 mi
- Point of Honor: 12.4 mi
- Model 1474 Gallion Roller: 13.1 mi
- Horse Drawn Road Grader: 13.1 mi
- HumanKind and Hill City Master Gardener Davis Instructional Garden: 10.8 mi
- Randolph College Organic Garden: 11.1 mi
- Daniel's Hill Garden: 11.9 mi
- Daniel's Hill Center Garden: 12.2 mi
- Robert D Morrison Garden: 12.5 mi
- Cow Camp Spring: 10.9 mi
- Hog Camp Gap Spring: 11.5 mi
- Wiggins Spring: 11.6 mi
- Lovingston Springs: 14.2 mi
- Rock Spring: 15.7 mi
- Carry Nature Sanctuary: 4.7 mi
- Mt. Pleasant Roadless Area: 10.0 mi
- Hollins Mill Park: 12.3 mi
- Fortune's Cove Preserve: 18.9 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain / Rockfish / Shields Gap: 20.0 mi
- Panther Falls: 11.0 mi
- White Rock Falls: 21.5 mi
- Apple Orchard Falls: 22.2 mi
- Lace Falls: 22.7 mi
- St. Mary's Falls: 22.9 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 21.2 mi
- Lovers Leap: 21.7 mi
- Wheeler Cliff: 22.9 mi
- J.H. Phillips Wayside: 20.7 mi
- Fairfield Safety Rest Area: 21.2 mi
- Cascade Falls Picnic Area: 22.0 mi
- Nelson County Wayside: 24.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Cedar Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | NNW 335° | 1,232 m | 10.7 mi |
| Pompey Peak | N 353° | 1,229 m | 10.8 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | N 351° | 1,223 m | 9.9 mi |
| Cole Mountain | NNW 342° | 1,197 m | 11.1 mi |
| Floyds Mountain | NNW 346° | 1,061 m | 10.6 mi |
| Little Rocky Mountain | NNW 345° | 1,034 m | 10.1 mi |
| Buck Mountain | NNW 332° | 1,025 m | 11.3 mi |
| Little Mount Pleasant | N 355° | 946 m | 9.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:03 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:15 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:21 | 17:02 |
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 | 37 | 40 | 47 | 57 | 64 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — TYE RVR 1 SE, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1464635 — Cedar Mountain, Amherst County, Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356560730
Day trips start here
- Lynchburg · 13 mi
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