Rich Mountain
Rich Mountain rises to 1,048 m in North Carolina. Bearwallow Mountain stands 1,281 m to the northeast, 5.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Rattlesnake Knob, a peak 0.6 miles away. Drovers Road passes 7.0 miles off.
The story
mountain in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States of America
Wikidata Q31637845, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1048 m
How to reach it
- 7.0 mi off the Drovers Road
- 7.8 mi off the Historic Flat Rock Scenic Byway
- 5.5 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
- 9.2 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Wildcat Rock Overlook · 7 mi
- Rattlesnake Knob Observation Point · 7 mi
- Tom and Glenna Rock Overlook · 8 mi
- Glassy Mountain Overlook · 10 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Rattlesnake Knob: 0.6 mi
- Hightop Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Couch Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Ward Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Huckleberry Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Fletcher Park: 3.6 mi
- Berkeley Mills Park: 4.5 mi
- Edneyville Community Park: 5.4 mi
- Patton Park: 5.5 mi
- William H. King Memorial Park: 5.6 mi
- Puncheon Camp Creek Falls: 3.6 mi
- Bead and Lace Falls: 6.1 mi
- Little Bearwallow Falls: 6.8 mi
- Oleta Falls: 7.3 mi
- Turley Falls: 7.6 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 4.6 mi
- Edneyville High School Monument: 5.5 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 6.6 mi
- Susie Skinner Clarke Hamilton: 7.1 mi
- Philip Jackson Hart house ruins: 13.6 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 8.2 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 10.9 mi
- Azalea Garden: 11.0 mi
- Spring Garden: 11.0 mi
- Rose Garden: 11.1 mi
- Historic Johnson Farm: 5.4 mi
- Mineral & Lapidary Museum: 6.5 mi
- Western North Carolina Air Museum: 7.1 mi
- Saluda Historic Depot and Museum: 12.9 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 14.4 mi
- WNC Agricultural Center: 5.5 mi
- Southern X793: 6.2 mi
- Historical Downtown: 6.5 mi
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: 6.8 mi
- Elijah Mountain Gem Mine And Crystal Store: 6.9 mi
- Statue of Diana: 11.0 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 13.6 mi
- TebbeArt Studios: 13.7 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 13.7 mi
- JMK236 Studio: 13.8 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 6.7 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 8.3 mi
- Jump Off Rock: 8.3 mi
- The Pinnacles: 9.3 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 9.3 mi
- Bat Fork Bog Site: 6.4 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 6.5 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 7.5 mi
- Lake Lure Green Space: 13.9 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 15.1 mi
- Lenox Spring: 7.2 mi
- Crystal Spring: 7.4 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 14.5 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 22.4 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 22.6 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 11.7 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 17.8 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 18.1 mi
- Coontree Picnic Area: 20.2 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 5.3 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 5.4 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 11.8 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 17.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.0 miles of Rich Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bearwallow Mountain | NE 51° | 1,281 m | 5.8 mi |
| Little Bearwallow Mountain | NE 52° | 1,208 m | 6.4 mi |
| Blue Ridge Pastures | NE 38° | 1,152 m | 6.1 mi |
| Turkey Knob | NE 54° | 1,136 m | 5.1 mi |
| Bank Mountain | NE 46° | 1,128 m | 2.5 mi |
| Ferguson Peak | NE 37° | 1,101 m | 6.8 mi |
| Bald Top Mountain | ENE 63° | 1,086 m | 2.7 mi |
| Hightop Mountain | NNE 20° | 1,082 m | 0.8 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 | 18:55 | 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, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 993294 — Rich Mountain, Henderson County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357783493
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- Asheville · 14 mi
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