Dial Rock
Dial Rock rises to 1,148 m in Virginia. Garden Mountain stands 1,437 m to the south-southeast, 5.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Short Mountain, a peak 0.7 miles away. Coal Heritage Trail - VA passes 1.1 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49024678, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,148 m
How to reach it
- 1.1 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail - VA
- 14.0 mi off the Big Walker Mountain Scenic Byway
- 13.4 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail, National
- 22.5 mi off the Mount Rogers Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Big Walker Lookout · 14 mi
- Pinnacle Rock Overlook · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Short Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Buckhorn Mountain: 1.3 mi
- East River Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Chimney Rock: 2.3 mi
- Rich Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Cavitt's Creek Park: 4.1 mi
- Burkes Garden Rural Historic District: 6.8 mi
- Graham Recreation Park: 9.2 mi
- Saint Lukes Cemetery: 9.9 mi
- Parkview Heights Park: 10.4 mi
- Peery & St. Clair Building: 5.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 11.5 mi
- This Way: 17.8 mi
- Kimball World War I Memorial: 19.0 mi
- Space Shuttle Memorial: 20.2 mi
- Historic Crab Orchard Museum: 7.7 mi
- Smyth County Museum: 22.6 mi
- Mercer County War Museum: 23.7 mi
- Mercer County Agricultural Museum: 24.6 mi
- Princeton Railroad Museum: 24.6 mi
- Sharon Springs: 11.5 mi
- Big Spring: 15.4 mi
- Cold Spring: 24.1 mi
- Pinnacle Rock State Park: 13.9 mi
- Clinch Mountian: 22.5 mi
- Bluefield Love Sign: 11.6 mi
- Hix: 11.6 mi
- Big Walker Lookout: 14.0 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 18.0 mi
- City Garden: 23.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.1 miles of Dial Rock. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden Mountain | SSE 163° | 1,437 m | 5.3 mi |
| Morris Knob | SW 233° | 1,358 m | 12.1 mi |
| Hutchinson Rock | SSE 147° | 1,348 m | 4.3 mi |
| Chestnut Knob | SSE 161° | 1,344 m | 7.1 mi |
| East River Mountain | ENE 61° | 1,331 m | 1.6 mi |
| Chimney Rock | ENE 63° | 1,304 m | 2.3 mi |
| Knob Mountain | SW 234° | 1,270 m | 9.9 mi |
| Greaver Benchmark | ESE 111° | 1,270 m | 10.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:30 | 19:04 | 19:38 |
| June solstice | 06:07 | 20:11 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:14 | 18:50 | 19:24 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:32 | 17:13 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 33 | 40 | 49 | 57 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 61 | 50 | 40 | 33 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burkes Garden, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1499339 — Dial Rock, Tazewell County, Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356586669
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