Mount Porte Crayon
Mount Porte Crayon rises to 1,452 m in West Virginia. Green Knob stands 1,424 m to the south-southeast, 2.2 miles off. The nearest named place is High Mountain, a peak 1.3 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 21 miles off.
The story
Mount Porte Crayon is a mountain in the Roaring Plains Wilderness of the Monongahela National Forest in the northeastern corner of Randolph County, West Virginia, USA. It rises to an elevation of 4,770 feet (1,450 m), the elevational climax of the Allegheny Front. The mountain is named for 19th century writer and illustrator David Hunter Strother (1816–88), known as "Porte Crayon" (French, porte-crayon: "pencil/crayon holder"), who produced a wide array of early West Virginia landscapes in his work.
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Wikidata Q6923023, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1452 m
How to reach it
- 20.7 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 23.3 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 26.8 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
- 29.2 mi off the Mountain Maryland Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- High Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Haystack Knob: 1.9 mi
- Green Knob: 2.2 mi
- Brierpatch Mountain: 4.3 mi
- Weiss Knob: 4.7 mi
- Potomac Wildlife Management Area: 5.3 mi
- Dolly Sods Picnic Area: 5.9 mi
- Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area: 9.1 mi
- Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area: 11.1 mi
- Alpena Gap Recreation Site: 11.3 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 7.9 mi
- Small waterfall: 11.2 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 11.5 mi
- Elakala Falls: 12.5 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 12.8 mi
- Lower Slabs: 8.0 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 8.1 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 8.2 mi
- Southern Pillar: 8.2 mi
- Eagle Rock: 11.4 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 11.6 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 14.4 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 14.4 mi
- Stony River Dam: 16.7 mi
- Stony River Dam: 16.7 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 6.0 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 12.9 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 13.9 mi
- Pat Spring: 15.0 mi
- Harlan Irons Spring: 16.9 mi
- Stringtown: 4.2 mi
- Mill Run: 7.7 mi
- Smoke Hole: 10.5 mi
- Kempton: 19.2 mi
- Sites Homestead: 7.8 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 7.9 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 21.2 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 23.4 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 12.0 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 13.1 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 20.6 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 6.1 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 12.4 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 12.1 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 21.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.3 miles of Mount Porte Crayon. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Knob | SSE 164° | 1,424 m | 2.2 mi |
| Haystack Knob | SSE 150° | 1,376 m | 1.9 mi |
| Horse Rock | S 191° | 1,374 m | 12.4 mi |
| Weiss Knob | NNE 18° | 1,359 m | 4.7 mi |
| Job Knob | SW 220° | 1,353 m | 5.5 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | SW 233° | 1,348 m | 4.3 mi |
| Bald Knob | NNE 16° | 1,332 m | 5.7 mi |
| Cabin Mountain | NNE 21° | 1,331 m | 5.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:55 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:07 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 36 | 46 | 55 | 62 | 65 | 64 | 59 | 49 | 39 | 31 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.8 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elkins 21 ENE, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1552541 — Mount Porte Crayon, Pendleton County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356524318
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