Maintop Mountain
Maintop Mountain rises to 1,232 m in Virginia. Bald Knob stands 1,232 m to the southwest, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Spy Rock, a peak 0.3 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 2.0 miles off.
The story
Maintop Mountain is a mountain in Nelson County, Virginia. The mountain is a peak on a spur off the main Blue Ridge Mountains, about 2 miles (3 km) east of Elk Pond Mountain, and about 3.5 miles (5.5 km) west of The Priest. The mountain is located in the George Washington National Forest. Maintop Mountain stands within the watershed of the Tye River, which drains into the James River. The northwest side of Maintop Mountain drains into Mill Creek, thence into the South Fork of the Tye River. The northeast side of the mountain drains into the Maidenhead Branch of the South Fork. The southeast side drains into Shoe Creek, thence into the Piney River and the Tye River. The southwest side drains into the Louisa Spring Branch of the North Fork of the Piney River. The Appalachian Trail, a 2,170-mile (3,500-km) National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine, currently runs across the summit of Maintop Mountain. After a trail relocation scheduled to start in May 2009, the AT will follow a less steep route and pass below the summit. Maintop is a popular local destination because of the view from Spy Rock, a spur located about a quarter mile from the summit. Spy Rock can be reached by a steep mile and a half hike from a state fish hatchery in Montebello, Virginia
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Wikidata Q8525783, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1232 m
How to reach it
- 2.0 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 19.9 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
- 25.9 mi off the Highlands Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Yankee Horse Ridge Overlook · 3 mi
- Fork Mountain Overlook · 6 mi
- Boston Knob Overlook · 6 mi
- Bald Mountain Overlook · 6 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Spy Rock: 0.3 mi
- Elk Pond Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Painter Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Brush Mountain: 3.0 mi
- The Priest: 3.3 mi
- Tye River Memorial Park: 7.6 mi
- Brownsburg Historic District: 12.7 mi
- Laurel Park: 13.8 mi
- Penny Park: 14.3 mi
- Schneider Community Park: 14.3 mi
- Otto Cline Powell monument: 17.0 mi
- Colonel Claudius Crozet: 17.3 mi
- Johnathan Daniels: 17.3 mi
- VMI World War II Memorial: 17.3 mi
- VMI World War II Memorial: 17.3 mi
- Rockfish Valley Foundation Natural History Center: 12.7 mi
- Virginia Distillery Museum: 14.5 mi
- Amherst County Historical Museum: 17.3 mi
- Virginia Military Institute Museum: 17.4 mi
- George C Marshall Research Foundation Library: 17.6 mi
- Rock Spring: 1.2 mi
- Lovingston Springs: 3.3 mi
- Hog Camp Gap Spring: 6.1 mi
- Wiggins Spring: 6.6 mi
- Cow Camp Spring: 7.6 mi
- Knight Statue: 14.0 mi
- Peristyle: 14.0 mi
- George Washington: 17.3 mi
- The Cannonball: 17.4 mi
- George C. Marshall: 17.4 mi
- Mt. Pleasant Roadless Area: 7.2 mi
- Fortune's Cove Preserve: 12.7 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain / Rockfish / Shields Gap: 12.9 mi
- Carry Nature Sanctuary: 19.2 mi
- Brushy Hills Preserve: 20.2 mi
- Crabtree Falls: 2.7 mi
- Yankee Horse Ridge: 3.5 mi
- Virginia Distillery Co. Distillery Tour & Tasting: 14.5 mi
- Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson: 18.0 mi
- Gypsy Hill Express Train: 22.9 mi
- White Rock Falls: 6.2 mi
- St. Mary's Falls: 6.9 mi
- Panther Falls: 12.5 mi
- Upper Shamokin Falls: 12.6 mi
- Greenhouse Area: 20.8 mi
- Anne Lee Bennett Memorial Garden: 22.1 mi
- Mevluda Tahirovic Memorial Garden: 22.2 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 5.9 mi
- Lovers Leap: 16.1 mi
- Humpback Rocks Picnic Area: 13.4 mi
- Nelson County Wayside: 16.7 mi
- Lake Monocan Beach: 14.6 mi
- Chris Lantos Waterfront: 20.2 mi
- Fairfield Safety Rest Area: 10.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.4 miles of Maintop Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | SW 222° | 1,232 m | 8.4 mi |
| Pompey Peak | SSW 205° | 1,229 m | 5.9 mi |
| The Priest | ESE 103° | 1,227 m | 3.3 mi |
| Elk Pond Mountain | WSW 242° | 1,226 m | 2.7 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | SSW 203° | 1,223 m | 6.8 mi |
| Three Ridges | ENE 76° | 1,210 m | 7.8 mi |
| Cole Mountain | SW 220° | 1,197 m | 7.1 mi |
| Little Priest | SE 126° | 1,133 m | 3.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:55 | 20:03 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:15 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:20 | 17:02 |
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 | 30 | 32 | 39 | 50 | 58 | 68 | 72 | 69 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 34 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Montebello Fish Cultural STN, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1495890 — Maintop Mountain, Nelson County, Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356583699
Day trips start here
- Lynchburg · 29 mi
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