Round Top Knob
Round Top Knob rises to 974 m in Virginia. Mount Rogers stands 1,744 m to the south-southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Brushy Mountain - Mollies Knob, a peak 0.7 miles away. Mount Rogers Scenic Byway passes 5.9 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49070121, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 974 m
How to reach it
- 5.9 mi off the Mount Rogers Scenic Byway
- 16.4 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail - VA
- 25.6 mi off the Big Walker Mountain Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Big Walker Lookout · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Brushy Mountain - Mollies Knob: 0.7 mi
- Goat Knob: 3.5 mi
- Little Brushy Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Bettys Knob: 5.3 mi
- Staley Knob: 6.7 mi
- Hugh Helton Veterans Memorial Park: 8.3 mi
- Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia: 14.8 mi
- Laurel Creek Park: 17.2 mi
- Overlook Park: 18.0 mi
- Williams Park: 19.4 mi
- Smyth County Museum: 5.8 mi
- Museum Of The Middle Appalachians: 8.1 mi
- Historic Crab Orchard Museum: 19.0 mi
- Fields Penn 1860 House Museum: 21.8 mi
- Historical Society of Washington County: 22.1 mi
- Big Spring: 10.3 mi
- Brig Spring: 16.8 mi
- Cave Spring: 18.7 mi
- Boiling Spring: 19.6 mi
- Cold Spring: 20.1 mi
- Clinch Mountian: 7.2 mi
- Clinch Mountain WMA: 9.4 mi
- The Channels Natural Area Preserve: 19.5 mi
- Hidden Valley Wildlife Management Area: 24.2 mi
- Pinnacle Natural Area Perserve: 24.9 mi
- Comer’s Creek Falls: 12.3 mi
- Straight Branch Falls: 14.9 mi
- Whitetop Laurel Falls: 16.3 mi
- Gentry Creek Falls: 19.8 mi
- Big Pinnacle: 16.2 mi
- Listening Rock: 17.0 mi
- Virginia Creeper Trail Visitor Ctr: 17.4 mi
- Where Trails Cross: 17.4 mi
- Morrison Cliff: 16.6 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 18.5 mi
- Backbone Rock: 20.5 mi
- Pinnacle: 24.9 mi
- Another Way (ShortCut): 17.3 mi
- Wheel of Freedom: 17.5 mi
- Peery & St. Clair Building: 19.4 mi
- Veteran's of all Service Branches: 21.9 mi
- Wooly: 8.2 mi
- Newman Basket Company: 17.3 mi
- Heartwood: 23.5 mi
- Dr. Catherine Smith Garden: 23.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.6 miles of Round Top Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Rogers | SSE 161° | 1,744 m | 13.6 mi |
| Double Top | SSE 164° | 1,382 m | 10.4 mi |
| Flattop Mountain | NW 309° | 1,379 m | 10.1 mi |
| Hurricane Mountain | SSE 153° | 1,355 m | 11.0 mi |
| Redrock Mountain | WNW 297° | 1,345 m | 11.4 mi |
| Flat Top | SSE 157° | 1,341 m | 10.9 mi |
| Grave Mountain | S 170° | 1,331 m | 10.8 mi |
| Brushy Mountain | NW 312° | 1,323 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:04 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 06:08 | 20:11 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:15 | 18:51 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:34 | 17:14 |
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 | 34 | 37 | 44 | 53 | 62 | 70 | 73 | 72 | 67 | 55 | 44 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Saltville 1N, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356583818
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