Merrill Mountain
Merrill Mountain rises to 953 m in North Carolina. Bearwallow Mountain stands 1,281 m to the east-southeast, 7.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Last house on the Hare RDG, a cliff 0.8 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 2.1 miles off.
The story
Mountain in North Carolina, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31632775, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 953 m
How to reach it
- 2.1 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 4.6 mi off the Drovers Road
- 11.2 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
- 14.4 mi off the Historic Flat Rock Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- French Broad River Overlook · 6 mi
- French Broad Overlook · 6 mi
- Haw Creek Valley (MP 380.0) · 8 mi
- Wildcat Rock Overlook · 8 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Buzzard's Roost: 1.3 mi
- Baldwin Gap: 1.3 mi
- Weston Knob: 1.5 mi
- Busbee Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Concord Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Puncheon Camp Creek Falls: 8.2 mi
- Little Bearwallow Falls: 8.6 mi
- Bead and Lace Falls: 9.1 mi
- Tom's Falls: 10.0 mi
- Camp Minnehaha Falls: 11.6 mi
- Ballantree neighborhood park: 1.8 mi
- Jake Rusher Park: 3.0 mi
- Ray L Kisiah Park: 3.1 mi
- Brooklawn Park: 3.3 mi
- Lake Julian Park: 3.5 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 4.6 mi
- The Bunkum Stone: 6.9 mi
- Young Men's Institute: 7.1 mi
- Thomas Wolfe Memorial: 7.3 mi
- Susie Skinner Clarke Hamilton: 7.3 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 3.7 mi
- Spring Garden: 4.3 mi
- Azalea Garden: 4.3 mi
- Walled Garden: 4.4 mi
- Shrub Garden: 4.4 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 7.1 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 7.2 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 7.2 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 7.3 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 7.4 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 5.2 mi
- WNC Agricultural Center: 6.1 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 6.5 mi
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: 6.5 mi
- Ironland: 7.3 mi
- Statue of Diana: 4.2 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 6.6 mi
- TebbeArt Studios: 6.7 mi
- JMK236 Studio: 6.7 mi
- Wake: 6.8 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 2.0 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 8.3 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 8.3 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 9.6 mi
- Bat Fork Bog Site: 13.5 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 0.8 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 12.6 mi
- Jump Off Rock: 13.6 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 14.0 mi
- The Pinnacles: 14.0 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 11.4 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 16.5 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 20.5 mi
- Coontree Picnic Area: 21.8 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 21.8 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 11.5 mi
- Crystal Spring: 13.5 mi
- Lenox Spring: 13.8 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 18.2 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 18.2 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 6.1 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 6.1 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 8.2 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 14.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.4 miles of Merrill Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bearwallow Mountain | ESE 114° | 1,281 m | 7.8 mi |
| High Hickory Knob | NE 47° | 1,231 m | 7.0 mi |
| Flat Top | NE 48° | 1,215 m | 7.0 mi |
| Little Bearwallow Mountain | ESE 110° | 1,208 m | 8.3 mi |
| Big Cedar Mountain | NNE 28° | 1,159 m | 3.8 mi |
| Blue Ridge Pastures | ESE 108° | 1,152 m | 6.8 mi |
| Turkey Knob | ESE 119° | 1,136 m | 7.8 mi |
| Bank Mountain | SE 138° | 1,128 m | 6.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:16 | 20:11 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:42 | 17:21 |
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 | 39 | 42 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 75 | 74 | 68 | 58 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Asheville AP, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357808211
Day trips start here
- Asheville · 6 mi
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