Hounds Leap
Hounds Leap rises to 264 m in Indiana. Round Knob stands 304 m to the north-northeast, 4.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Alum Cave Hollow Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Ohio River Scenic Byway passes 12 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q33139792, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 264 m
How to reach it
- 11.7 mi off the Ohio River Scenic Byway, National
- 7.2 mi off the Indiana's Historic Pathways, National
- 16.0 mi off the River Road
- 17.9 mi off the US 42
Named places within 25 miles
- Pekin Park: 7.2 mi
- Letty Walter Park: 7.6 mi
- Galena Lamb Park: 7.6 mi
- Greenville Park: 7.7 mi
- Pembroke Park: 7.8 mi
- Cubby House Hill: 0.7 mi
- Daisy Hill: 3.4 mi
- Williams Knob: 3.5 mi
- Bowers Knob: 4.5 mi
- Round Knob: 4.8 mi
- BPW Hoosiers Field of Memories: 7.6 mi
- The Spring and Statue: 8.4 mi
- Landscape: 12.6 mi
- Winged Man: 12.7 mi
- Lucy Higgs Nichols: 12.7 mi
- New Albany Sign: 12.8 mi
- Old Clarksville Site: 13.5 mi
- Clark-Floyd Counties Convention & Tourism Bureau: 15.2 mi
- Preservation Station Caboose: 15.5 mi
- Jeffersonville Overlook: 15.6 mi
- Division Street School: 12.4 mi
- In Loving Memory of Darrell Anthony Sweet: 12.8 mi
- U.S. Marine Hospital: 14.3 mi
- York Historical Marker: 15.7 mi
- Lewis and Clark Expedition Historical Marker: 15.7 mi
- Carnegie Center for Art and History: 12.5 mi
- Floyd County Historical Society Padgett Museum: 12.7 mi
- Portland Museum: 14.3 mi
- Falls of the Ohio Interpretive Center: 14.5 mi
- Clark County Museum: 15.0 mi
- Alum Cave Hollow Nature Preserve: 0.6 mi
- Virginia Pine-Chestnut Oak Nature Preserve: 8.4 mi
- White Oak Nature Preserve: 9.4 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 20.2 mi
- Indian Creek Trail: 20.9 mi
- Blice Point: 16.5 mi
- Water: 17.4 mi
- Vault Point: 21.7 mi
- Blunk Point: 22.0 mi
- Cedar Point: 23.5 mi
- Scribner Garden: 12.7 mi
- Underground Railroad Gardens: 12.7 mi
- Waterfront Botanical Gardens: 16.4 mi
- Iroquois Flowers: 19.6 mi
- Springville: 11.6 mi
- Marshfield: 18.5 mi
- Wynnsboro: 22.7 mi
- Cedar Grove: 13.6 mi
- Picnic-in-the-Park Pavilions: 19.9 mi
- Miles Spring: 19.2 mi
- Grable Spring: 19.8 mi
- Oldham County (Crestwood) Northbound Rest Area: 22.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.3 miles of Hounds Leap. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round Knob | NNE 26° | 304 m | 4.8 mi |
| Hickman Hill | S 187° | 302 m | 15.1 mi |
| Rock Knob | NNE 28° | 291 m | 10.9 mi |
| Spickert Knob | SSE 162° | 289 m | 8.6 mi |
| Oak Knob | NNE 26° | 288 m | 10.6 mi |
| Warren Hill | WNW 285° | 284 m | 20.4 mi |
| Sand Bank Hill | WNW 289° | 283 m | 20.5 mi |
| Daisy Hill | NNW 329° | 282 m | 3.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:48 | 19:21 | 19:56 |
| June solstice | 06:21 | 20:32 | 21:12 |
| September equinox | 07:32 | 19:07 | 19:42 |
| December solstice | 07:58 | 16:45 | 17:27 |
Local time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis).
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 | 47 | 58 | 68 | 76 | 79 | 78 | 72 | 60 | 47 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Louisville Mcalpine, 14 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 436521 — Hounds Leap, Clark County, Indiana.
OpenStreetMap element node/358656754
Day trips start here
- Floyds Knobs · 9 mi
- Georgetown · 12 mi
- Clarksville · 13 mi
- New Albany · 13 mi
- Jeffersonville · 14 mi
- Charlestown State Park · 15 mi
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