Scott Mountain
Scott Mountain rises to 738 m in Virginia. Bald Knob stands 1,232 m to the west, 4.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Piney Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 5.6 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Amherst County, Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49071988, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 738 m
How to reach it
- 5.6 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 25.7 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
- 27.0 mi off the Highlands Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Yankee Horse Ridge Overlook · 6 mi
- Boston Knob Overlook · 7 mi
- Irish Creek Valley Overlook · 8 mi
- White's Gap Overlook · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Piney Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Little Mount Pleasant: 1.1 mi
- Page Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Mount Pleasant: 1.9 mi
- Doefoot Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Tye River Memorial Park: 8.0 mi
- Laurel Park: 11.1 mi
- Penny Park: 11.7 mi
- Glen Maury Park: 12.3 mi
- Ben Salem Wayside: 14.0 mi
- Otto Cline Powell monument: 12.4 mi
- Colonel Claudius Crozet: 16.6 mi
- Johnathan Daniels: 16.7 mi
- VMI World War II Memorial: 16.7 mi
- Jackson's Classroom: 16.7 mi
- Monacan Ancestral Museum: 10.9 mi
- Saint Paul's Mission School: 11.0 mi
- Amherst County Historical Museum: 11.0 mi
- Sweet Briar Museum: 12.4 mi
- Train Station and Caboose: 12.4 mi
- Knight Statue: 11.6 mi
- Peristyle: 11.6 mi
- George Washington: 16.7 mi
- The Cannonball: 16.8 mi
- George C. Marshall: 16.8 mi
- Yankee Horse Ridge: 5.9 mi
- Crabtree Falls: 8.9 mi
- Virginia Distillery Co. Distillery Tour & Tasting: 15.5 mi
- Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson: 17.1 mi
- Packet Boat Marshall: 20.2 mi
- Hog Camp Gap Spring: 3.6 mi
- Wiggins Spring: 4.0 mi
- Cow Camp Spring: 4.2 mi
- Lovingston Springs: 5.3 mi
- Rock Spring: 6.6 mi
- HumanKind and Hill City Master Gardener Davis Instructional Garden: 19.8 mi
- Randolph College Organic Garden: 20.2 mi
- Daniel's Hill Garden: 21.0 mi
- Daniel's Hill Center Garden: 21.3 mi
- Robert D Morrison Garden: 21.6 mi
- Mt. Pleasant Roadless Area: 2.7 mi
- Carry Nature Sanctuary: 12.6 mi
- Fortune's Cove Preserve: 13.9 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain / Rockfish / Shields Gap: 14.7 mi
- Brushy Hills Preserve: 19.5 mi
- Panther Falls: 8.4 mi
- White Rock Falls: 12.7 mi
- St. Mary's Falls: 13.8 mi
- Upper Shamokin Falls: 18.1 mi
- Lace Falls: 23.7 mi
- Humpback Rocks Picnic Area: 18.9 mi
- Nelson County Wayside: 19.3 mi
- Cascade Falls Picnic Area: 23.3 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 12.4 mi
- Lovers Leap: 16.6 mi
- Lake Monocan Beach: 18.9 mi
- Chris Lantos Waterfront: 23.5 mi
- Fairfield Safety Rest Area: 13.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.9 miles of Scott Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | W 278° | 1,232 m | 4.7 mi |
| Maintop Mountain | N 7° | 1,232 m | 6.9 mi |
| Pompey Peak | NW 315° | 1,229 m | 2.2 mi |
| The Priest | NE 34° | 1,227 m | 7.4 mi |
| Elk Pond Mountain | NNW 346° | 1,226 m | 5.8 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | WNW 291° | 1,223 m | 1.9 mi |
| Cole Mountain | WNW 291° | 1,197 m | 3.9 mi |
| Little Priest | NE 36° | 1,133 m | 6.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:03 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:15 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:21 | 17:02 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 32 | 39 | 50 | 58 | 68 | 72 | 69 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 34 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Montebello Fish Cultural STN, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356574604
Day trips start here
- Lynchburg · 22 mi
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