Husky Knob
Husky Knob rises to 1,124 m in North Carolina. Snake Mountain stands 1,697 m to the north-northeast, 8.0 miles off. The nearest named place is White Pine Cliffs, a cliff 0.3 miles away. Mission Crossing passes 2.1 miles off.
The story
Mountain in North Carolina, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31628438, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,124 m
How to reach it
- 2.1 mi off the Mission Crossing
- 5.4 mi off the Little Parkway
- 5.7 mi off the US 421 Scenic Byway
- 5.3 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Moses Cone Overlook · 6 mi
- Storyteller Rock · 8 mi
- Top Crag View · 8 mi
- Raven Rock Overlook · 8 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Valle Crucis Community Park: 2.1 mi
- Watauga River Access: 2.7 mi
- Rivers House Park: 3.0 mi
- Jimmy Smith Park: 3.1 mi
- North Street Park: 3.2 mi
- Crab Orchard Falls: 3.2 mi
- Dutch Creek Falls: 3.4 mi
- Hebron Colony Falls: 4.5 mi
- Otter Falls: 6.2 mi
- Laurel Creek Falls: 6.7 mi
- Baird Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Bingham Hill: 1.5 mi
- Tester Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Snakeden Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Rocky Knob: 2.2 mi
- Hellbenders: 3.1 mi
- Doc and Merle Watson: 3.1 mi
- The Rock: 3.1 mi
- Doc Watson Statue: 3.2 mi
- Time and Honor: 3.2 mi
- Fun 'N' Wheels: 2.4 mi
- Greater Foscoe Mining Company: 4.6 mi
- Foggy Mountain Gem Mine: 5.2 mi
- Tweetsie Twister: 5.9 mi
- F-80 Jet Planes: 5.9 mi
- White Pine Cliffs: 0.3 mi
- Hayes Bluff: 2.3 mi
- Scheer Bluffs: 10.0 mi
- Flattop Cliffs: 10.3 mi
- Linville Bluffs: 10.4 mi
- Children's Playhouse: 4.0 mi
- Hickory Ridge Living History Museum: 4.0 mi
- Moses Cone Manor: 5.5 mi
- Native American Artifacts: 6.6 mi
- Blowing Rock 1888 Museum: 6.9 mi
- Watauga County Veterans Memorial: 3.2 mi
- Earth Day 2011: 3.4 mi
- Historic Dam Site: 5.3 mi
- Old Blowing Rock Sewage Pump Station: 7.0 mi
- Buck Ridge Lookout Tower: 12.1 mi
- Julian Price Memorial Park Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- Elk Knob Picnic Area: 8.5 mi
- Cliffside Picnic Area: 10.2 mi
- Forrest Gump Picnic Area: 10.3 mi
- Woods Walk: 10.7 mi
- Watauga Extension Educational Garden: 2.9 mi
- Sustainable Development Civic Garden Project: 3.1 mi
- Fred Webb Jr. Outdoor Geology Laboratory and Rock Garden: 3.3 mi
- Appalachian Roots Garden: 3.6 mi
- Daniel Boone Native Gardens: 3.9 mi
- Bear Wallow Spring: 8.1 mi
- Shanty Springs: 8.6 mi
- Hampton Spring: 24.5 mi
- Boiling Spring: 24.6 mi
- Watauga County US 221 Rest Area: 5.5 mi
- Brown Mountain View: 20.0 mi
- Elk Shoals: 19.9 mi
- Shook Branch Swimming Area: 22.3 mi
- Mortimer: 16.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.3 miles of Husky Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snake Mountain | NNE 13° | 1,697 m | 8.0 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WSW 253° | 1,663 m | 8.2 mi |
| Pinnacles of the Beech | WSW 253° | 1,652 m | 8.2 mi |
| Hanging Rock | SW 226° | 1,582 m | 6.5 mi |
| Peak Mountain | SW 221° | 1,473 m | 8.0 mi |
| Harmon Knob | NNE 22° | 1,466 m | 5.1 mi |
| Rich Mountain | ENE 60° | 1,455 m | 2.2 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | NNE 33° | 1,407 m | 4.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:05 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 06:11 | 20:10 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:52 | 19:26 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:37 | 17:16 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 34 | 41 | 49 | 58 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 61 | 51 | 41 | 35 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Boone 1 SE, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1020869 — Husky Knob, Watauga County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357807773
Day trips start here
- Elizabethton · 29 mi
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