Chestnut Mountain
Chestnut Mountain rises to 964 m in North Carolina. Little Pisgah Mountain stands 1,341 m to the east-southeast, 7.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Cedar Mountain, a peak 1.0 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 2.3 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31620445, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 964 m
How to reach it
- 2.3 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 3.2 mi off the Drovers Road
- 8.7 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
- 13.1 mi off the French Broad Overview
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Big Cedar Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Butler Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Little Cedar Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Baldwin Gap: 2.0 mi
- Buzzard's Roost: 2.4 mi
- Little Bearwallow Falls: 8.3 mi
- Tom's Falls: 9.1 mi
- Puncheon Camp Creek Falls: 9.2 mi
- Bead and Lace Falls: 9.3 mi
- Broad River Falls: 10.7 mi
- Ray L Kisiah Park: 3.2 mi
- Asheville Recreation Park: 3.4 mi
- Murphy-Oakley Park: 3.6 mi
- Anne Patton Joyce Park: 3.7 mi
- Ballantree neighborhood park: 3.9 mi
- The Bunkum Stone: 6.3 mi
- Young Men's Institute: 6.5 mi
- Overlook Castle: 6.5 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 6.5 mi
- Thomas Wolfe Memorial: 6.6 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 4.1 mi
- Spring Garden: 5.3 mi
- Azalea Garden: 5.4 mi
- Italian Garden: 5.4 mi
- Shrub Garden: 5.4 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 6.5 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 6.5 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 6.6 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 6.6 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 6.8 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 6.1 mi
- Ironland: 6.7 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 7.2 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 8.0 mi
- WNC Agricultural Center: 9.0 mi
- Statue of Diana: 5.2 mi
- Tebbé Davies Fine Art Studios: 5.5 mi
- Wake: 6.4 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 6.6 mi
- Deco Gecko: 6.6 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 4.9 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 7.7 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 8.4 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 8.5 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 11.6 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 3.7 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 12.5 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 12.7 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 14.1 mi
- The Pinnacles: 14.2 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 14.2 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 18.9 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 19.0 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 23.0 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 23.5 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 8.9 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 15.3 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 15.3 mi
- Crystal Spring: 16.0 mi
- Lenox Spring: 16.2 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 9.0 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 9.0 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 10.5 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 16.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.2 miles of Chestnut Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Pisgah Mountain | ESE 113° | 1,341 m | 7.5 mi |
| Jesses High Top | ENE 66° | 1,326 m | 6.1 mi |
| High Windy | ENE 74° | 1,321 m | 6.9 mi |
| Black Knob | ENE 78° | 1,291 m | 6.4 mi |
| Bearwallow Mountain | SE 135° | 1,281 m | 7.9 mi |
| High Top | ENE 70° | 1,263 m | 7.5 mi |
| High Hickory Knob | NE 56° | 1,231 m | 4.2 mi |
| Rice Knob | NNW 346° | 1,219 m | 8.1 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 | 20:11 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:55 | 19:28 |
| 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 | 33 | 36 | 42 | 52 | 60 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 62 | 53 | 43 | 36 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Swannanoa 2 SSE, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357806989
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