Pine Knob
Pine Knob rises to 497 m in West Virginia. Turkeybone Mountain stands 1,132 m to the south-southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Wolf Fork Mountain, a peak 2.7 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 3.7 miles off. 146 named places lie within 25 miles, 54 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.
Wikidata Q31469354, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 497 m
How to reach it
- 3.7 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 15.3 mi off the Little Kanawha Parkway
- 20.4 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 23.9 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
146 named places within 25 miles
- Stonecoal Lake Wildlife Management Area: 4.0 mi
- Boat Dock: 4.5 mi
- Stonewall Jackson Lake Wildlife Management Area: 4.8 mi
- Weston City Park: 7.2 mi
- Weston Downtown Historic District: 7.3 mi
- Wolf Fork Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Buckhannon Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Bald Knob: 3.3 mi
- Wilson Knob: 4.6 mi
- Purgatory Hill: 4.8 mi
- Old Hill Cemetary: 7.2 mi
- The National Exchange Bank Of Weston: 7.2 mi
- Fairyland Nickelodeon Movies: 7.3 mi
- Stonewall Jackson Memorial: 7.3 mi
- The East and West Second Street Bridge: 7.4 mi
- West Virginia Museum of American Glass: 7.3 mi
- Mountaineer Military Museum: 7.3 mi
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (West Virginia Hospital for the Insane/Weston State Hospital): 7.4 mi
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: 7.4 mi
- Fidler's Mill - Historic Gristmill & Building: 10.6 mi
- Weston Historic Walking Tour: 7.3 mi
- Maniac Mountain: 14.6 mi
- Helvetia Village Historic District: 19.8 mi
- Burnsville Waterfall: 14.2 mi
- Tecumseh Falls: 18.8 mi
- Tenskwatawa Falls: 20.4 mi
- Stonewall Resort State Park: 5.2 mi
- West Virginia Wildlife Reserve: 7.8 mi
- Courthouse Rock: 14.4 mi
- Hanging Rock: 17.9 mi
- Buckhannon Mural: 9.5 mi
- Bulltown Swimming Area: 14.2 mi
- Bulltown: 14.2 mi
- Bulltown Picnic Area: 14.4 mi
- Biology Demonstration Garden: 23.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Pine Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkeybone Mountain | SSE 152° | 1,132 m | 24.4 mi |
| Blue Rock Knob | SE 138° | 1,113 m | 22.7 mi |
| Beech Mountain | SE 143° | 1,083 m | 23.7 mi |
| Round Knob | SSE 147° | 1,073 m | 24.4 mi |
| High Germany Knob | SE 133° | 1,065 m | 20.6 mi |
| Pisgah Knob | SSE 159° | 1,018 m | 24.6 mi |
| Long Run Hill | ESE 116° | 876 m | 19.8 mi |
| Kelly Knob | ESE 114° | 813 m | 17.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 18:59 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 05:57 | 20:11 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:45 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:38 | 16:21 | 17:03 |
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 | 62 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Stonewall Jackson DAM, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1544894 — Pine Knob, Lewis County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356520073
Day trips start here
- Weston · 8 mi
- Buckhannon · 10 mi
- Clarksburg · 23 mi
- Bridgeport · 25 mi
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