Piney Mountain
Piney Mountain rises to 845 m in North Carolina. Little Pisgah Mountain stands 1,341 m to the north-northeast, 6.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Puncheon Camp Creek Falls, a waterfall 0.8 miles away. Drovers Road passes 4.7 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States of America (GNIS ID = 1021962).
Wikidata Q31635659, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 845 m
How to reach it
- 4.7 mi off the Drovers Road
- 2.7 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
- 9.3 mi off the Historic Flat Rock Scenic Byway
- 10.7 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Wildcat Rock Overlook · 4 mi
- Rattlesnake Knob Observation Point · 5 mi
- Tom and Glenna Rock Overlook · 6 mi
- Exclamation Point · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Puncheon Camp Creek Falls: 0.8 mi
- Bead and Lace Falls: 3.3 mi
- Little Bearwallow Falls: 4.4 mi
- Oleta Falls: 5.7 mi
- Camp Minnehaha Falls: 6.4 mi
- Bald Top Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Green Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Wethero Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Bank Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Whiteside Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Edneyville Community Park: 2.8 mi
- Fletcher Park: 6.4 mi
- Berkeley Mills Park: 6.7 mi
- William H. King Memorial Park: 7.3 mi
- Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park: 7.4 mi
- Edneyville High School Monument: 2.7 mi
- Susie Skinner Clarke Hamilton: 5.3 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 7.3 mi
- Philip Jackson Hart house ruins: 14.4 mi
- Battle of Round Mountain Monument: 15.2 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 9.2 mi
- Columbarium Garden: 12.2 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 12.4 mi
- Spring Garden: 12.8 mi
- Azalea Garden: 12.8 mi
- Mineral & Lapidary Museum: 8.1 mi
- Western North Carolina Air Museum: 8.1 mi
- Historic Johnson Farm: 8.2 mi
- Saluda Historic Depot and Museum: 12.4 mi
- Swannanoa Valley Museum: 14.3 mi
- Southern X793: 7.8 mi
- Grady's Animal Discovery Den: 7.9 mi
- Historical Downtown: 8.1 mi
- WNC Agricultural Center: 8.6 mi
- Elijah Mountain Gem Mine And Crystal Store: 9.3 mi
- Statue of Diana: 12.8 mi
- Blue Ridge Assembly: 13.0 mi
- Tebbé Davies Fine Art Studios: 15.1 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 15.2 mi
- TebbeArt Studios: 15.3 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 5.1 mi
- The Pinnacles: 6.2 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 6.2 mi
- Worlds Edge: 7.2 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 8.2 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 5.3 mi
- Bat Fork Bog Site: 7.5 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 8.5 mi
- Lake Lure Green Space: 10.8 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 16.9 mi
- Lenox Spring: 8.9 mi
- Crystal Spring: 9.5 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 12.8 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 20.9 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 21.1 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 14.9 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 20.9 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 21.0 mi
- Coontree Picnic Area: 23.2 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 8.3 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 8.4 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 14.6 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 20.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.9 miles of Piney Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Pisgah Mountain | NNE 25° | 1,341 m | 6.5 mi |
| Bearwallow Mountain | NNE 23° | 1,281 m | 3.5 mi |
| Little Bearwallow Mountain | NNE 29° | 1,208 m | 4.0 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | E 95° | 1,208 m | 6.3 mi |
| Blue Ridge Pastures | N 8° | 1,152 m | 4.4 mi |
| Turkey Knob | NNE 21° | 1,136 m | 2.8 mi |
| Bank Mountain | NW 315° | 1,128 m | 1.9 mi |
| Ferguson Peak | N 11° | 1,101 m | 5.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:16 | 20:11 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:54 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:42 | 17:21 |
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 | 37 | 41 | 47 | 56 | 64 | 71 | 74 | 73 | 67 | 57 | 47 | 40 |
| Precip in | 5.3 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 5.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hendersonville 1 NE, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357808677
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- Asheville · 15 mi
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