Peak Mountain
Peak Mountain rises to 1,473 m in North Carolina. Calloway Peak stands 1,804 m to the southeast, 1.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Wilderness Run Alpine Coaster, a attraction 0.6 miles away. Mission Crossing passes 2.8 miles off.
The story
Peak Mountain is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country, near the town of Seven Devils. It is known by several other names such as Tynecastle Peak, Invershiel Peak and Dunvegan Peak. It is wholly in the Pisgah National Forest. Its elevation reaches 4,921 feet (1,500 m). The headwaters of the Elk River begins from the Northwestern slopes of the mountain; along the Southwestern slopes, it shares with Sugar Mountain and Flattop Mountain as the headwaters of the Linville River; along the Southeastern slopes, it shares with Grandfather Mountain as the headwaters of the Watauga River.
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Wikidata Q8530346, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1473 m
How to reach it
- 2.8 mi off the Mission Crossing
- 2.5 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 2.8 mi off the Little Parkway
- 10.7 mi off the Pisgah Loop Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Watauga View · 2 mi
- Calloway Peak · 2 mi
- Patio View of MacRae Peak · 2 mi
- Storyteller Rock · 2 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- J. Douglass Williams Park: 1.5 mi
- Otter Falls Park: 1.9 mi
- The Park at Seven Devils: 2.2 mi
- Foscoe-Grandfather Community Center and Park: 2.3 mi
- Norris Clifton Park: 2.6 mi
- Hanging Rock: 1.7 mi
- Calloway Peak: 1.9 mi
- Flattop Mountain: 1.9 mi
- MacRae Peak: 2.1 mi
- Sugar Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Otter Falls: 1.9 mi
- Tanawha Falls: 3.0 mi
- Green Mountain Falls: 3.3 mi
- Andrews Creek Falls: 4.3 mi
- Little Wilson Creek Falls: 4.3 mi
- The Gardener: 8.7 mi
- Jessie: 8.7 mi
- The Rock: 10.1 mi
- Yosef the Mountain Man: 10.2 mi
- Daniel Boone and his Hunting Dogs: 10.2 mi
- Wilderness Run Alpine Coaster: 0.6 mi
- Linn Cove Viaduct: 2.8 mi
- Stack Rock: 2.9 mi
- Greater Foscoe Mining Company: 3.9 mi
- Fun 'N' Wheels: 9.2 mi
- Flattop Cliffs: 2.3 mi
- Scheer Bluffs: 2.6 mi
- Linville Bluffs: 2.8 mi
- Rattlesnake Cliffs: 6.0 mi
- High Point Cliff: 6.9 mi
- Wilson Center for Nature Discovery: 2.8 mi
- Beech Mountain History Museum: 4.5 mi
- Avery County Musuem: 6.0 mi
- Moses Cone Manor: 8.0 mi
- Blowing Rock Art & History Museum: 8.6 mi
- Law Enforcement Memorial: 6.0 mi
- Avery County Veterans Memorial: 6.0 mi
- Old Blowing Rock Sewage Pump Station: 8.5 mi
- Watauga County Veterans Memorial: 10.4 mi
- Earth Day 2011: 10.4 mi
- Cliffside Picnic Area: 2.6 mi
- Forrest Gump Picnic Area: 2.7 mi
- Woods Walk: 3.0 mi
- Julian Price Memorial Park Picnic Area: 6.0 mi
- Linville Falls Picnic Area: 12.1 mi
- Sustainable Development Civic Garden Project: 10.1 mi
- Watauga Extension Educational Garden: 10.2 mi
- Fred Webb Jr. Outdoor Geology Laboratory and Rock Garden: 10.3 mi
- Fred Webb Jr. Outdoor Geology Laboratory and Rock Garden: 10.3 mi
- Appalachian Roots Garden: 10.6 mi
- Peak Mountain Conservation Area: 0.9 mi
- Foscoe Wetland Conservation Area: 2.5 mi
- Elk Valley Preserve: 5.2 mi
- Lost Cove Wilderness Study Area: 7.7 mi
- Annie Cannon Gardens: 8.6 mi
- Shanty Springs: 1.7 mi
- Bear Wallow Spring: 2.6 mi
- Water Tree (Blackgum Springs): 20.7 mi
- Gully Pipe: 21.0 mi
- Hampton Spring: 21.7 mi
- Watauga County US 221 Rest Area: 7.4 mi
- Brown Mountain View: 13.0 mi
- Riverside Park Beach Access: 19.8 mi
- Shook Branch Swimming Area: 20.2 mi
- Mortimer: 10.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.9 miles of Peak Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calloway Peak | SE 135° | 1,804 m | 1.9 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 325° | 1,663 m | 4.6 mi |
| Pinnacles of the Beech | NW 324° | 1,652 m | 4.5 mi |
| Sugar Mountain | W 259° | 1,585 m | 2.4 mi |
| Hanging Rock | NNE 19° | 1,582 m | 1.7 mi |
| Flattop Mountain | SW 235° | 1,502 m | 1.9 mi |
| Rocky Knob | N 352° | 1,502 m | 4.9 mi |
| Pilot Knob | SE 128° | 1,466 m | 3.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:32 | 19:05 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 06:11 | 20:10 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:52 | 19:26 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:37 | 17:17 |
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 | 29 | 31 | 38 | 47 | 55 | 61 | 65 | 64 | 59 | 49 | 40 | 34 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 3.9 | 5.4 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 5.8 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 4.2 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Grandfather MTN, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357808556
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- Elizabethton · 27 mi
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