High Mountain
High Mountain rises to 1,287 m in West Virginia. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the northeast, 1.3 miles off. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 20 miles off.
The story
Mountain in West Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31717132, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,287 m
How to reach it
- 19.7 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 22.1 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 27.1 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
- 29.8 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Porte Crayon: 1.3 mi
- Green Knob: 2.1 mi
- Haystack Knob: 2.2 mi
- Brierpatch Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Job Knob: 4.3 mi
- Potomac Wildlife Management Area: 5.5 mi
- Dolly Sods Picnic Area: 7.2 mi
- Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area: 9.9 mi
- Alpena Gap Recreation Site: 10.3 mi
- Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area: 10.5 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 7.0 mi
- Small waterfall: 10.3 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 10.6 mi
- Elakala Falls: 13.1 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 13.5 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 6.8 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 11.8 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 12.7 mi
- Pat Spring: 13.8 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 16.3 mi
- Lower Slabs: 8.2 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 8.2 mi
- Southern Pillar: 8.3 mi
- Eagle Rock: 11.8 mi
- Raven Rocks: 22.8 mi
- Stringtown: 4.9 mi
- Mill Run: 7.7 mi
- Smoke Hole: 11.2 mi
- Kempton: 19.9 mi
- Gertrude: 24.0 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 10.7 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 14.9 mi
- Stony River Dam: 17.8 mi
- Wilson Monument: 20.3 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 20.3 mi
- Sites Homestead: 7.9 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 8.0 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 20.2 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 22.2 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 11.7 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 13.7 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 20.7 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 7.0 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 13.5 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 11.1 mi
- Locust Springs: 24.7 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 20.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.1 miles of High Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | NE 55° | 1,452 m | 1.3 mi |
| Green Knob | SE 130° | 1,424 m | 2.1 mi |
| Haystack Knob | ESE 116° | 1,376 m | 2.2 mi |
| Horse Rock | S 187° | 1,374 m | 11.5 mi |
| Weiss Knob | NNE 25° | 1,359 m | 5.7 mi |
| Job Knob | SW 216° | 1,353 m | 4.3 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | SW 232° | 1,348 m | 3.0 mi |
| Bald Knob | NNE 23° | 1,332 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:55 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:07 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:42 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 36 | 46 | 55 | 62 | 65 | 64 | 59 | 49 | 39 | 31 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.8 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elkins 21 ENE, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1551433 — High Mountain, Randolph County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356523793
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