Pickle Mountain
Pickle Mountain rises to 912 m in West Virginia. Spruce Knob stands 1,482 m to the northwest, 10.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Wilfong Knob, a peak 1.0 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 18 miles off.
The story
Mountain in West Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31467640, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 912 m
How to reach it
- 18.1 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 18.7 mi off the Camp Allegheny Backway
- 23.7 mi off the Back Mountain Backway
- 25.5 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Wilfong Knob: 1.0 mi
- Cave Knob: 1.5 mi
- Brushy Knob: 1.6 mi
- Tea Knob: 1.7 mi
- Cedar Knob: 1.8 mi
- Thorn Spring Park: 2.3 mi
- Thorn Creek Wildlife Management Area: 2.9 mi
- Franklin Town Park: 4.6 mi
- Shenandoah Wildlife Management Area: 10.3 mi
- Ruddle Park: 10.5 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 9.7 mi
- Locust Spring: 13.5 mi
- Rock Lick Spring: 14.8 mi
- Maple Spring: 15.1 mi
- Hall Spring: 15.4 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 10.3 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 11.0 mi
- Eagle’s Sugar Camp: 13.2 mi
- Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 14.2 mi
- Rexrode’s Sugar Orchard: 15.9 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 12.4 mi
- Old Sexton Cabin: 18.5 mi
- Fort Edward Johnson (1862): 20.1 mi
- Confederate Breastworks Interpretive Site: 20.3 mi
- Camp Bartow Historic Site: 21.0 mi
- Raven Rocks: 4.6 mi
- Southern Pillar: 15.8 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 15.9 mi
- Lower Slabs: 16.1 mi
- Eagle Rock: 16.2 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 12.9 mi
- Small waterfall: 13.1 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 15.7 mi
- High Falls: 23.7 mi
- Locust Springs: 13.5 mi
- Stonewall Ruritan Club Picnic Ground: 17.2 mi
- Mountain House Day Use Area: 20.6 mi
- North River Picnic Area: 21.3 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 15.9 mi
- Sites Homestead: 16.1 mi
- Charles P. Jones Museum: 16.6 mi
- Highland County Museum: 19.2 mi
- Smoke Hole: 18.5 mi
- Gertrude: 21.6 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 24.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Pickle Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Knob | NW 312° | 1,482 m | 10.0 mi |
| Kile Knob | W 280° | 1,395 m | 4.8 mi |
| Panther Knob | WSW 243° | 1,371 m | 6.1 mi |
| Snowy Mountain | WSW 245° | 1,370 m | 8.3 mi |
| Pike Knob | NNW 332° | 1,308 m | 5.0 mi |
| Harmon Rocks | N 354° | 1,243 m | 6.9 mi |
| Ruleman Mountain | WSW 253° | 1,233 m | 4.0 mi |
| Big Mountain | W 265° | 1,177 m | 9.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:55 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:06 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:19 | 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 | 33 | 35 | 43 | 52 | 61 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 54 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Franklin 2 NE, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356519950
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