Seneca Rocks
Seneca Rocks rises to 738 m in West Virginia. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the northwest, 8.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Lower Slabs, a cliff less than a tenth of a mile away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 26 miles off.
The story
Rock formation in West Virginia, U.S.
Wikidata Q7450337, linked from the OpenStreetMap record's article tag.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 738 m
How to reach it
- 26.1 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 27.4 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 29.2 mi off the Camp Allegheny Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Harper Knob: 1.3 mi
- High Knob: 1.7 mi
- Harman Knob: 3.3 mi
- Smith Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Big Mountain: 4.4 mi
- Potomac Wildlife Management Area: 2.8 mi
- Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area: 4.8 mi
- Ruddle Park: 8.0 mi
- Dolly Sods Picnic Area: 8.8 mi
- Dam Site Seven Park: 10.9 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 13.6 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 13.8 mi
- Hall Spring: 18.1 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 18.1 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 18.5 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 6.8 mi
- Small waterfall: 8.9 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 9.0 mi
- Elakala Falls: 20.1 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 20.2 mi
- Lower Slabs: 0.0 mi
- Southern Pillar: 0.3 mi
- Eagle Rock: 4.0 mi
- Raven Rocks: 15.5 mi
- Baker Rocks: 20.7 mi
- Smoke Hole: 4.7 mi
- Stringtown: 12.1 mi
- Mill Run: 15.7 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 5.2 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 12.6 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 20.6 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 8.7 mi
- Stony River Dam: 21.1 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 22.0 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 18.2 mi
- Locust Springs: 22.9 mi
- Blue Hole Day Use Area: 23.6 mi
- Sites Homestead: 0.4 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 0.5 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 13.3 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 17.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of Seneca Rocks. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | NW 323° | 1,452 m | 8.1 mi |
| Green Knob | NW 316° | 1,424 m | 6.1 mi |
| Haystack Knob | NW 321° | 1,376 m | 6.1 mi |
| Horse Rock | SW 232° | 1,374 m | 9.2 mi |
| Weiss Knob | NNW 342° | 1,359 m | 11.4 mi |
| Job Knob | WNW 285° | 1,353 m | 8.7 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | WNW 295° | 1,348 m | 9.2 mi |
| Haines Knob | W 280° | 1,299 m | 11.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:54 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:07 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
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 | 33 | 35 | 43 | 52 | 61 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 54 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Franklin 2 NE, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaOpenStreetMap element node/4959055267
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