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. 58 named summits stand within 25 miles.
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
- 1,263 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
- Youth Center Park: 2.6 mi
- Riverwalk Park: 2.7 mi
- Town Square: 2.8 mi
- Lake Tomahawk Park: 2.8 mi
- Grovemont Park: 3.8 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
- 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
- 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
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 12.5 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 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 25 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 |
| High Windy | SW 217° | 1,321 m | 0.8 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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