Pond Lick Mountain
Pond Lick Mountain rises to 1,222 m in West Virginia. Spruce Knob stands 1,482 m to the southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Pat Spring, a spring 1.5 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 5.9 miles off.
The story
mountain in West Virginia, United States of America
Wikidata Q31474539, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1222 m
How to reach it
- 5.9 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 8.2 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 20.2 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
- 22.9 mi off the Back Mountain Backway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Chenoweth Knob: 1.8 mi
- Hawflat Knob: 2.5 mi
- Spruce Knob: 2.7 mi
- Bickle Knob: 3.0 mi
- Kelley Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Stuart Recreation Area: 2.8 mi
- Bear Heaven Recreation Area: 4.0 mi
- Alpena Gap Recreation Site: 4.2 mi
- Davis Street Park: 6.1 mi
- Elkins City Park: 6.4 mi
- Pat Spring: 1.5 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 1.9 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 2.4 mi
- Harlan Irons Spring: 10.6 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 16.9 mi
- High Falls: 8.5 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 14.2 mi
- Small waterfall: 14.8 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 15.0 mi
- Elakala Falls: 19.6 mi
- Wilson Monument: 6.1 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 6.7 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 15.5 mi
- Donald R. Gaudineer Memorial: 19.9 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 20.4 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 20.2 mi
- Southern Pillar: 20.3 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 20.3 mi
- Lower Slabs: 20.3 mi
- Eagle Rock: 24.3 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 6.6 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 8.2 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 19.9 mi
- Sites Homestead: 19.9 mi
- Covered Bridge Museum: 24.5 mi
- Mill Run: 13.3 mi
- Gertrude: 15.6 mi
- Stringtown: 15.7 mi
- Smoke Hole: 24.5 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 4.0 mi
- Locust Springs: 21.7 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 17.7 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 19.3 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 20.2 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 20.7 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 6.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.5 miles of Pond Lick Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Knob | SE 140° | 1,482 m | 17.2 mi |
| Mount Porte Crayon | E 80° | 1,452 m | 15.3 mi |
| Green Knob | E 88° | 1,424 m | 15.7 mi |
| Pharis Knob | SSE 150° | 1,410 m | 11.9 mi |
| Haystack Knob | E 87° | 1,376 m | 16.1 mi |
| Horse Rock | SE 127° | 1,374 m | 15.9 mi |
| Weiss Knob | ENE 67° | 1,359 m | 17.9 mi |
| Job Knob | E 98° | 1,353 m | 11.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:55 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:19 | 17:01 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 28 | 35 | 46 | 55 | 63 | 66 | 66 | 59 | 48 | 38 | 30 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glady 1 N, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356524317
Day trips start here
- Buckhannon · 28 mi
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