Frady Mountain
Frady Mountain rises to 776 m in North Carolina. Big Cedar Mountain stands 1,159 m to the northeast, 6.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Blake Mountain, a peak 0.5 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 1.2 miles off.
The story
mountain in North Carolina, United States of America
Wikidata Q31624581, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 776 m
How to reach it
- 1.2 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 7.5 mi off the Drovers Road
- 13.0 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
- 14.2 mi off the French Broad Overview
Overlooks nearby
- French Broad River Overlook · 3 mi
- French Broad Overlook · 3 mi
- Sleepy Gap Parking · 6 mi
- View Chesnut Cove · 6 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Blake Mountain: 0.5 mi
- Ducker Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Brown Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Busbee Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Weston Knob: 2.8 mi
- Lake Julian Park: 1.2 mi
- Ballantree neighborhood park: 1.5 mi
- Brooklawn Park: 1.6 mi
- Jake Rusher Park: 2.0 mi
- Rosebank Park: 2.7 mi
- Puncheon Camp Creek Falls: 10.2 mi
- Little Bearwallow Falls: 11.2 mi
- Johnny Tiller Falls: 11.5 mi
- Slate Rock Creek Falls: 11.5 mi
- Bead and Lace Falls: 11.6 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 4.1 mi
- The Bunkum Stone: 6.5 mi
- Young Men's Institute: 6.8 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 6.8 mi
- Anne Penland: 6.9 mi
- Azalea Garden: 2.9 mi
- Spring Garden: 2.9 mi
- Rose Garden: 3.0 mi
- Walled Garden: 3.0 mi
- Shrub Garden: 3.0 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 6.7 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 6.8 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 6.8 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 6.9 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 6.9 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 3.7 mi
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: 4.7 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 4.8 mi
- WNC Agricultural Center: 4.9 mi
- Ironland: 6.8 mi
- Statue of Diana: 3.0 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 5.6 mi
- TebbeArt Studios: 5.7 mi
- JMK236 Studio: 5.8 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 5.8 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 1.9 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 6.9 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 9.4 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 11.1 mi
- Bat Fork Bog Site: 13.8 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 2.6 mi
- Jump Off Rock: 12.7 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 14.9 mi
- High Rocks: 15.6 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 16.2 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 8.8 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 13.6 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 18.3 mi
- Coontree Picnic Area: 19.3 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 24.0 mi
- Crystal Spring: 13.0 mi
- Lenox Spring: 13.6 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 14.3 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 20.6 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 20.7 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 4.9 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 4.9 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 5.2 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 11.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.9 miles of Frady Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Cedar Mountain | NE 49° | 1,159 m | 6.1 mi |
| Green Top | WSW 255° | 1,146 m | 7.7 mi |
| Rich Knob | WSW 254° | 1,128 m | 7.8 mi |
| Billy Cove Knob | W 261° | 1,126 m | 7.4 mi |
| Pine Mountain | WSW 242° | 1,121 m | 7.0 mi |
| Stradley Mountain | W 266° | 1,119 m | 7.1 mi |
| Hickory Top | W 266° | 1,119 m | 7.1 mi |
| Double Head | WSW 238° | 1,112 m | 7.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:09 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:16 | 20:12 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:42 | 17:22 |
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 | 35 | 38 | 45 | 54 | 62 | 69 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 38 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bent Creek, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1020349 — Frady Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357807402
Day trips start here
- Asheville · 6 mi
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