Kelley Mountain
Kelley Mountain rises to 967 m in West Virginia. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the east, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Stuart Recreation Area, a park 1.1 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 3.0 miles off.
The story
Mountain in West Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31717616, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 967 m
How to reach it
- 3.0 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 6.3 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 20.4 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
- 23.5 mi off the Back Mountain Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Chenoweth Knob: 3.0 mi
- Pond Lick Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Hawflat Knob: 3.4 mi
- Bickle Knob: 3.6 mi
- Stuart Knob: 4.7 mi
- Stuart Recreation Area: 1.1 mi
- Davis Street Park: 3.1 mi
- Elkins City Park: 3.4 mi
- College Street Park: 3.6 mi
- Veteran's Memorial Park: 3.7 mi
- Pat Spring: 4.3 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 4.9 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 5.2 mi
- Harlan Irons Spring: 9.9 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 18.9 mi
- High Falls: 9.4 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 17.2 mi
- Small waterfall: 17.8 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 17.9 mi
- Elakala Falls: 20.8 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 3.6 mi
- Wilson Monument: 3.7 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 18.5 mi
- Donald R. Gaudineer Memorial: 20.4 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 21.3 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 3.5 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 6.6 mi
- Covered Bridge Museum: 21.8 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 22.8 mi
- Sites Homestead: 22.9 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 23.2 mi
- Southern Pillar: 23.2 mi
- Lower Slabs: 23.2 mi
- Raven Rocks: 23.3 mi
- Mill Run: 14.9 mi
- Gertrude: 16.5 mi
- Stringtown: 17.8 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 21.3 mi
- Maniac Mountain: 23.1 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 23.7 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 3.5 mi
- Buckhannon Mural: 24.6 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 6.0 mi
- Locust Springs: 23.6 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 19.8 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 19.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.6 miles of Kelley Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | E 85° | 1,452 m | 17.9 mi |
| Green Knob | E 92° | 1,424 m | 18.5 mi |
| Pharis Knob | SE 143° | 1,410 m | 14.4 mi |
| Haystack Knob | E 91° | 1,376 m | 18.8 mi |
| Horse Rock | SE 124° | 1,374 m | 18.8 mi |
| Job Knob | E 101° | 1,353 m | 14.6 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | E 94° | 1,348 m | 14.5 mi |
| Cunningham Knob | SSE 154° | 1,339 m | 15.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:55 | 20:09 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:19 | 17:01 |
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 | 31 | 34 | 41 | 52 | 60 | 68 | 71 | 70 | 64 | 53 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elkins- Randolph CO AP, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356525002
Day trips start here
- Buckhannon · 25 mi
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