Hot Mountain
Hot Mountain rises to 770 m in Virginia. Hawksbill stands 1,232 m to the west-southwest, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Short Mountain, a peak 0.7 miles away. Skyline Drive passes 2.4 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 770 m
How to reach it
- 2.4 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
- 18.1 mi off the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Pinnacles Overlook · 2 mi
- Jewell Hollow Overlook · 3 mi
- Thorofare Mountain Overlook · 3 mi
- Thorofare Mtn Overlook · 3 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Short Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Catlett Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Lindsay Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Pine Hill: 1.6 mi
- Hazel Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Lake Arrowhead Park: 5.6 mi
- Sperryville Historic District: 5.9 mi
- Ralph H. Dean Recreation Park: 9.2 mi
- Ruffner Plaza: 10.1 mi
- Eugene Park: 10.4 mi
- CCC Camp: 8.9 mi
- Confederate Soldiers Monument: 9.5 mi
- Five Tents: 9.8 mi
- Page County Confederate Soldiers Monument: 10.0 mi
- O. Winston Link Photo NW-846 Site: 10.0 mi
- Old School House Museum: 9.9 mi
- Luray Train Station Musuem: 10.0 mi
- Luray Valley Museum: 11.1 mi
- Toy Town Junction: 11.1 mi
- Car and Carriage Caravan Museum: 11.1 mi
- Cave Falls: 2.9 mi
- Lower Whiteoak Falls: 4.0 mi
- Upper Whiteoak Falls: 4.0 mi
- Cedar Run Falls: 5.1 mi
- Rose River Falls: 7.3 mi
- Furnace Spring: 4.4 mi
- Hawksbill Spring: 5.4 mi
- Rock Spring: 6.5 mi
- Davids Spring: 8.4 mi
- Lewis Spring: 9.4 mi
- Pinnacles picnic ground: 3.2 mi
- Big Meadows Picnic Grounds: 8.8 mi
- Pavilian: 15.1 mi
- South River Picnic Area: 18.9 mi
- Dickey Ridge Picnic Grounds: 19.6 mi
- Luray Train Depot: 10.0 mi
- Darkwood Manor: 10.1 mi
- Luray Caverns: 11.1 mi
- The Garden Maze: 11.1 mi
- Cooter's Luray: 13.9 mi
- Halfmile Cliff: 5.1 mi
- Franklin Cliffs: 7.7 mi
- Rattlesnake Point: 10.8 mi
- Huckleberry Cliff: 11.1 mi
- Mitchell Bluff: 15.7 mi
- Love: 11.0 mi
- Lions Glasses: 18.3 mi
- Statue of Liberty: 21.5 mi
- Cootie Bug: 21.6 mi
- "Stonewall" Jackson: 23.1 mi
- PATC Entry Run Tract: 16.9 mi
- Potomac Appalachian Trail Club: 18.9 mi
- Water Street Nature Reserve: 22.3 mi
- Eastham Park Trail and Front Royal Boat Landing: 22.6 mi
- W.O. Riley Park Garden: 23.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.4 miles of Hot Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawksbill | WSW 243° | 1,232 m | 5.9 mi |
| Stony Man | W 274° | 1,220 m | 4.0 mi |
| Bushytop | W 268° | 1,142 m | 4.8 mi |
| Spitler Hill | SW 234° | 1,138 m | 6.2 mi |
| Nakedtop | WSW 247° | 1,138 m | 6.4 mi |
| Betty's Rock | WSW 248° | 1,131 m | 4.9 mi |
| Little Stony Man | W 278° | 1,110 m | 3.8 mi |
| Stony Mountain | SW 229° | 1,097 m | 8.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:18 | 18:50 | 19:25 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:02 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:37 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:14 | 16:56 |
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 | 34 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 67 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sperryville, 6 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Shenandoah National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Jan and Feb; busiest: Oct.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1496948 — Hot Mountain, Rappahannock County, Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356584411
Day trips start here
- Shenandoah National Park · 10 mi
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