McGowan Mountain
McGowan Mountain rises to 1,189 m in West Virginia. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the east-southeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area, a park 2.6 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 9.0 miles off.
The story
Mountain in West Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31718282, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,189 m
How to reach it
- 9.0 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 13.5 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 21.5 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
- 23.2 mi off the Cheat River Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Stuart Knob: 3.3 mi
- Bickle Knob: 3.9 mi
- Green Mountain: 4.6 mi
- Shavers Mountain: 5.0 mi
- Big Knob: 5.5 mi
- Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area: 2.6 mi
- Bear Heaven Recreation Area: 3.8 mi
- Alpena Gap Recreation Site: 4.7 mi
- Fernow Experimental Forest: 5.1 mi
- Stuart Recreation Area: 6.2 mi
- Douglas Falls: 13.5 mi
- Elakala Falls: 13.5 mi
- Albert Falls: 13.7 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 14.5 mi
- High Falls: 15.3 mi
- Harlan Irons Spring: 4.8 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 6.0 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 7.3 mi
- Pat Spring: 7.9 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 12.4 mi
- Mill Run: 8.2 mi
- Stringtown: 11.9 mi
- Kempton: 19.1 mi
- Gertrude: 22.3 mi
- Smoke Hole: 23.7 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 9.4 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 13.9 mi
- Sites Homestead: 20.0 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 20.1 mi
- Covered Bridge Museum: 22.1 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 9.4 mi
- Wilson Monument: 10.8 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 14.0 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 18.4 mi
- Stony River Dam: 23.7 mi
- Lower Slabs: 20.4 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 20.4 mi
- Southern Pillar: 20.4 mi
- Eagle Rock: 24.2 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 13.4 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 20.1 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 14.1 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 22.4 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 3.7 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 9.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.2 miles of McGowan Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | ESE 106° | 1,452 m | 13.3 mi |
| Green Knob | ESE 114° | 1,424 m | 14.6 mi |
| Pharis Knob | SSE 168° | 1,410 m | 17.1 mi |
| Haystack Knob | ESE 112° | 1,376 m | 14.8 mi |
| Weiss Knob | E 87° | 1,359 m | 14.2 mi |
| Job Knob | SE 131° | 1,353 m | 12.2 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | SE 124° | 1,348 m | 11.3 mi |
| Bald Knob | E 83° | 1,332 m | 14.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
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 | 61 | 69 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Parsons 3 SE, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356524012
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- Buckhannon · 29 mi
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