Piney Mountain
Piney Mountain rises to 712 m in Virginia. Bald Knob stands 1,232 m to the west-northwest, 4.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Scott Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 6.2 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Amherst County, Virginia, United States of America; geonames ID = 4779210.
Wikidata Q49061981, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 712 m
How to reach it
- 6.2 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 26.5 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
- 27.2 mi off the Highlands Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Yankee Horse Ridge Overlook · 7 mi
- Boston Knob Overlook · 8 mi
- Irish Creek Valley Overlook · 8 mi
- White's Gap Overlook · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Scott Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Little Mount Pleasant: 1.4 mi
- Pierce Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Mollys Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Page Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Tye River Memorial Park: 8.4 mi
- Laurel Park: 11.0 mi
- Penny Park: 11.6 mi
- Glen Maury Park: 12.2 mi
- Ben Salem Wayside: 13.9 mi
- Otto Cline Powell monument: 12.0 mi
- Colonel Claudius Crozet: 16.7 mi
- Johnathan Daniels: 16.8 mi
- VMI World War II Memorial: 16.8 mi
- Jackson's Classroom: 16.8 mi
- Monacan Ancestral Museum: 10.2 mi
- Saint Paul's Mission School: 10.2 mi
- Amherst County Historical Museum: 10.4 mi
- Sweet Briar Museum: 11.7 mi
- Train Station and Caboose: 11.7 mi
- Knight Statue: 11.5 mi
- Peristyle: 11.6 mi
- George Washington: 16.8 mi
- The Cannonball: 16.8 mi
- George C. Marshall: 16.9 mi
- Yankee Horse Ridge: 6.6 mi
- Crabtree Falls: 9.7 mi
- Virginia Distillery Co. Distillery Tour & Tasting: 15.8 mi
- Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson: 17.1 mi
- Packet Boat Marshall: 19.4 mi
- HumanKind and Hill City Master Gardener Davis Instructional Garden: 19.0 mi
- Randolph College Organic Garden: 19.4 mi
- Daniel's Hill Garden: 20.2 mi
- Daniel's Hill Center Garden: 20.5 mi
- Robert D Morrison Garden: 20.8 mi
- Hog Camp Gap Spring: 4.0 mi
- Cow Camp Spring: 4.3 mi
- Wiggins Spring: 4.4 mi
- Lovingston Springs: 6.0 mi
- Rock Spring: 7.4 mi
- Mt. Pleasant Roadless Area: 2.8 mi
- Carry Nature Sanctuary: 11.9 mi
- Fortune's Cove Preserve: 14.3 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain / Rockfish / Shields Gap: 15.2 mi
- Brushy Hills Preserve: 19.6 mi
- Panther Falls: 8.1 mi
- White Rock Falls: 13.5 mi
- St. Mary's Falls: 14.6 mi
- Upper Shamokin Falls: 18.8 mi
- Lace Falls: 23.4 mi
- Humpback Rocks Picnic Area: 19.7 mi
- Nelson County Wayside: 19.7 mi
- Cascade Falls Picnic Area: 22.9 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 13.2 mi
- Lovers Leap: 16.8 mi
- Lake Monocan Beach: 19.5 mi
- Chris Lantos Waterfront: 23.9 mi
- Fairfield Safety Rest Area: 14.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Piney Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | WNW 288° | 1,232 m | 4.7 mi |
| Maintop Mountain | N 8° | 1,232 m | 7.8 mi |
| Pompey Peak | NNW 329° | 1,229 m | 2.7 mi |
| The Priest | NNE 32° | 1,227 m | 8.2 mi |
| Elk Pond Mountain | NNW 349° | 1,226 m | 6.6 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | NW 312° | 1,223 m | 2.2 mi |
| Cole Mountain | WNW 302° | 1,197 m | 4.1 mi |
| Little Priest | NNE 33° | 1,133 m | 6.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:03 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:15 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:21 | 17:02 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 32 | 39 | 50 | 58 | 68 | 72 | 69 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 34 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Montebello Fish Cultural STN, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356574077
Day trips start here
- Lynchburg · 21 mi
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