High Top
High Top rises to 1,263 m in North Carolina. Big Slaty stands 1,597 m to the north-northeast, 7.3 miles off. The nearest named place is High Windy, a peak 0.8 miles away. Black Mountain Rag passes 1.4 miles off.
The story
mountain in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States of America (GNIS ID = 1020764)
Wikidata Q31424829, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1263 m
How to reach it
- 1.4 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
- 5.7 mi off the Drovers Road
- 7.8 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 16.3 mi off the French Broad Overview
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- High Windy: 0.8 mi
- Lakey Knob: 1.1 mi
- Black Knob: 1.5 mi
- Jesses High Top: 1.5 mi
- Dill Knob: 2.1 mi
- Youth Center Park: 2.6 mi
- Riverwalk Park: 2.7 mi
- Town Square: 2.8 mi
- Lake Tomahawk Park: 2.8 mi
- Lake Tomahawk Park: 2.9 mi
- Davids Falls: 4.3 mi
- Upper Catawba Falls: 4.9 mi
- Catawba Falls: 5.0 mi
- Lower Catawaba Falls: 5.2 mi
- Tom's Falls: 6.5 mi
- Susie Skinner Clarke Hamilton: 6.5 mi
- Arrowhead Monument: 9.0 mi
- Potato House: 9.4 mi
- Caretaker's Cabin: 9.4 mi
- Tool Shed: 9.4 mi
- Columbarium Garden: 0.8 mi
- Dr. John Wilson Community Garden: 1.9 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 11.4 mi
- Griffing Rose Garden: 12.6 mi
- Spring Garden: 12.7 mi
- Swannanoa Valley Museum: 2.6 mi
- Old Fort Railroad Museum: 9.0 mi
- Mountain Gateway Museum: 9.0 mi
- Mountain Gateway Museum: 9.0 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 12.5 mi
- Blue Ridge Assembly: 1.5 mi
- Tebbé Davies Fine Art Studios: 8.6 mi
- Statue of Diana: 12.6 mi
- Wake: 12.6 mi
- Deco Gecko: 12.7 mi
- McDowell Tourism Authority: 9.0 mi
- Grady's Animal Discovery Den: 11.3 mi
- Ironland: 12.7 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 13.4 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 13.6 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 6.6 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 7.1 mi
- Rocky Knob: 8.5 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 10.3 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 11.9 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 6.6 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 10.6 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 11.4 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 12.5 mi
- The Pinnacles: 12.8 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 1.4 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 9.2 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 9.4 mi
- Lenox Spring: 20.3 mi
- Crystal Spring: 20.6 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 15.3 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 15.4 mi
- Marion Rest Area - Eastbound: 17.9 mi
- Marion Rest Area - Westbound: 18.0 mi
- McDowell County Rest Area: 18.0 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 13.5 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 17.2 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 21.4 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 18.0 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 24.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.4 miles of High Top. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Slaty | NNE 15° | 1,597 m | 7.3 mi |
| Little Slaty | NNE 13° | 1,524 m | 7.0 mi |
| Walker's Knob | NNE 18° | 1,455 m | 7.0 mi |
| Forked Ridge Knob | N 11° | 1,375 m | 6.2 mi |
| Little Pisgah Mountain | S 182° | 1,341 m | 5.4 mi |
| Middle Mountain | NNE 11° | 1,328 m | 6.9 mi |
| Jesses High Top | W 267° | 1,326 m | 1.5 mi |
| Unnamed Peak | N 8° | 1,323 m | 5.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:08 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:15 | 20:11 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:54 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:41 | 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 | 37 | 40 | 46 | 55 | 63 | 70 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 40 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Black MTN 2 W, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357807694
Day trips start here
- Asheville · 13 mi
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