Pleasant Knob
Pleasant Knob rises to 821 m in North Carolina. Lane Pinnacle stands 1,583 m to the east-northeast, 7.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Griffing Rose Garden, a garden 0.4 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 2.5 miles off.
The story
Mountain in North Carolina, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31636147, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 821 m
How to reach it
- 2.5 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 5.4 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 10.8 mi off the Drovers Road
- 12.4 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Lake Louise Falls: 4.2 mi
- Reems Creek Falls: 5.3 mi
- Cascades Falls: 11.0 mi
- Douglas Falls: 11.2 mi
- Walker Falls: 13.5 mi
- Patton Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Sunset Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Lookout Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Rich Knob: 1.6 mi
- Killian Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Weaver Park: 1.4 mi
- Lake View Park: 1.5 mi
- Sunset Park: 1.5 mi
- Grove Park: 1.5 mi
- Albermarle Park: 1.6 mi
- Overlook Castle: 1.5 mi
- Giving Tree Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Jeter C. Pritchard Historical Marker: 2.1 mi
- 1st U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery Marker: 2.2 mi
- Riverside Cemetery Marker: 2.2 mi
- Griffing Rose Garden: 0.4 mi
- Elder & Sage Community Garden: 2.6 mi
- Burton Street Community Peace Garden: 4.2 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 5.9 mi
- Italian Garden: 6.4 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 2.5 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 2.6 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 2.6 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 2.7 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 2.7 mi
- Flat Iron Statue: 2.7 mi
- Deco Gecko: 2.7 mi
- Passage: 2.8 mi
- Wake: 3.2 mi
- rooster: 3.4 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 2.0 mi
- Ironland: 2.7 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 5.8 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 6.1 mi
- Little Snowball Lookout Tower: 10.8 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 9.9 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 13.9 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 20.5 mi
- Raven Cliff: 21.8 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 21.9 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 0.9 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 4.5 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 10.4 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 10.7 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 11.7 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 13.4 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 15.9 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 16.2 mi
- Crystal Spring: 22.2 mi
- Lenox Spring: 22.7 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 16.6 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 18.1 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 19.3 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 22.4 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 14.2 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 14.2 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 11.4 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 15.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.5 miles of Pleasant Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lane Pinnacle | ENE 63° | 1,583 m | 7.5 mi |
| Wolfden Knob | ENE 60° | 1,493 m | 7.0 mi |
| Rocky Knob | ENE 62° | 1,433 m | 5.9 mi |
| Richland Mountain | NE 55° | 1,429 m | 6.2 mi |
| Richland Knob | NE 55° | 1,429 m | 6.2 mi |
| Courthouse Knob | NE 50° | 1,322 m | 6.2 mi |
| High Swan | ENE 66° | 1,300 m | 5.3 mi |
| North Knob | NNE 21° | 1,233 m | 6.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:09 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:16 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 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 | 38 | 42 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 75 | 74 | 68 | 58 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Asheville, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357782682
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