Cold Knob
Cold Knob rises to 1,191 m in North Carolina. Big Butt stands 1,807 m to the southeast, 5.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Mill Knob, a peak 1.0 miles away. Interstate 26 Scenic Highway passes 5.9 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Madison County, North Carolina, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31621022, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,191 m
How to reach it
- 5.9 mi off the Interstate 26 Scenic Highway
- 7.3 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 12.5 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 16.3 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Mars Hill Recreation Park: 8.0 mi
- Burnsville Town Square: 8.7 mi
- Upper Laurel Community Center Park: 8.9 mi
- Ray–Cort Recreation Park: 9.0 mi
- Lincoln Park: 9.2 mi
- Walker Falls: 6.5 mi
- Falling Water Branch Falls: 6.5 mi
- Douglas Falls: 8.2 mi
- Glassmine Falls: 8.3 mi
- Mitchell Falls: 8.5 mi
- Mill Knob: 1.0 mi
- South Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Ledford Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Campground Knob: 1.4 mi
- Bailey Cabin Knob: 1.5 mi
- Otway Burns: 8.7 mi
- Yancey County Veterans Memorial: 8.8 mi
- Yancey County Confederate Soldiers Monument: 8.8 mi
- Tennis Court: 11.6 mi
- Spring House: 11.6 mi
- Friends: 8.7 mi
- Stream: 8.7 mi
- Black Mountain Range: 8.7 mi
- Petal & Leaves: 8.7 mi
- Rock Bridge: 8.7 mi
- Rural Heritage Museum: 7.5 mi
- McElroy House: 8.7 mi
- The Lloyd Bailey Annex: 8.7 mi
- Mt Mitchell Museum: 9.7 mi
- Dry Ridge Historical Museum: 13.0 mi
- Mountain Gardens: 11.1 mi
- Terrace garden: 11.2 mi
- Camp Celo Gardens: 12.9 mi
- Griffing Rose Garden: 16.0 mi
- Dr. John Wilson Community Garden: 16.4 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 13.0 mi
- Baxter Cliff: 20.5 mi
- Whiterock Cliff: 20.8 mi
- Blackstack Cliffs: 21.1 mi
- Stony Point: 22.2 mi
- Navitat Canopy Adventures: 2.9 mi
- Little Snowball Lookout Tower: 5.1 mi
- Buck Creek Trout Farm: 16.0 mi
- French Broad Rafting: 17.2 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 17.4 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 8.0 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 11.4 mi
- Rocky Knob: 12.0 mi
- Marshall Nature Sanctuary: 14.4 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 15.9 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 12.0 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 12.5 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 18.0 mi
- Cold Spring: 22.8 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 9.7 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 12.1 mi
- Lost Cove: 16.4 mi
- Riverside Park Beach Access: 20.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.0 miles of Cold Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Butt | SE 129° | 1,807 m | 5.1 mi |
| Point Misery | SE 135° | 1,736 m | 6.3 mi |
| Flat Spring Knob | SE 124° | 1,728 m | 5.1 mi |
| Little Butt | SE 134° | 1,708 m | 5.7 mi |
| Ogle Ridge | E 101° | 1,664 m | 3.3 mi |
| Coxcomb Mountain | ESE 114° | 1,655 m | 2.7 mi |
| Licklog Mountain | E 86° | 1,570 m | 3.2 mi |
| Weedy Knob | ESE 102° | 1,509 m | 6.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:14 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:54 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:41 | 17:20 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 27 | 32 | 41 | 50 | 56 | 60 | 59 | 54 | 45 | 36 | 30 |
| Precip in | 7.5 | 5.6 | 7.2 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 6.9 | 7.7 | 8.8 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 6.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Mitchell, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357807038
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- Asheville · 19 mi
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