Sharp Top
Sharp Top rises to 389 m in Virginia. Humpback Mountain stands 1,099 m to the west-southwest, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Burnt Mountain, a peak less than a tenth of a mile away. Skyline Drive passes 6.6 miles off.
The story
mountain in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States of America
Wikidata Q49072624, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 389 m
How to reach it
- 6.6 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
- 7.3 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 14.3 mi off the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Beagle Gap Overlook · 7 mi
- Rockfish Gap Overlook · 7 mi
- Afton Overlook · 7 mi
- McCormick Gap Overlook · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Burnt Mountain: 0.0 mi
- Castle Rock: 1.9 mi
- High Top: 2.1 mi
- Moses Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Long Arm Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Playground: 6.2 mi
- Claudius Crozet Park: 6.7 mi
- Cove Creek Park: 7.7 mi
- Beaver Creek Park: 8.2 mi
- Walnut Creek Park: 8.6 mi
- 3 Owl Statue: 10.3 mi
- Mountain Man: 10.7 mi
- Bear Statue: 10.7 mi
- George Welsh: 12.9 mi
- IN-trospection: 13.2 mi
- Mirador: 4.2 mi
- VDOT Workers' Memorial: 5.6 mi
- Beaver Creek Watershed Project: 8.3 mi
- W181 Birthplace of Meriwether Lewis: 9.6 mi
- Locust Hill: 9.9 mi
- Waynesboro Heritage Museum: 10.3 mi
- Rockfish Valley Foundation Natural History Center: 10.6 mi
- Plumb House Museum: 10.6 mi
- Waltons Mountain Museum: 12.9 mi
- Fralin Museum of Art: 13.7 mi
- Murray Elementary Vegetable Garden: 9.0 mi
- Jane Heyward Garden: 11.6 mi
- Student Garden: 13.0 mi
- Keunen Garden: 13.4 mi
- Courtnay's Garden: 13.4 mi
- Mint Springs Valley Park: 7.5 mi
- Heyward Community Forest: 10.9 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain / Rockfish / Shields Gap: 14.1 mi
- Fortune's Cove Preserve: 15.3 mi
- Ivy Creek Natural Area: 15.7 mi
- Laurel Springs Gap: 10.7 mi
- Dripping Rock: 10.9 mi
- Coiner Spring: 11.7 mi
- Hickory Spring: 12.7 mi
- Tinkling Spring: 15.1 mi
- Lake Monocan Beach: 8.6 mi
- Chris Greene Lake Beach: 20.9 mi
- Lake Monticello Beach 5: 22.5 mi
- Lake Monticello Beach 4: 23.0 mi
- Lake Monticello Beach 3: 23.6 mi
- Free Speech Wall: 14.8 mi
- Virginia Distillery Co. Distillery Tour & Tasting: 14.9 mi
- Apple Cannon: 15.0 mi
- Endless View Farms: 15.0 mi
- James Monroe's Highland: 15.5 mi
- Upper Shamokin Falls: 10.8 mi
- Jones Run Falls: 17.7 mi
- White Rock Falls: 17.8 mi
- Lower Doyles River Falls: 18.4 mi
- Upper Doyles River Falls: 18.5 mi
- Charlottesville Safety Rest Area West: 7.4 mi
- Mount Sidney Safety Rest Area North: 22.3 mi
- Mount Sidney Safety Rest Area South: 22.3 mi
- Nelson County Wayside: 9.9 mi
- Humpback Rocks Picnic Area: 10.2 mi
- Dundo Picnic Grounds and Group Campground: 18.0 mi
- Canada: 13.4 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 17.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.3 miles of Sharp Top. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humpback Mountain | WSW 258° | 1,099 m | 8.8 mi |
| Bucks Elbow Mountain | N 359° | 964 m | 8.9 mi |
| Humpback Rocks | W 264° | 949 m | 8.7 mi |
| Crawford Knob | WSW 248° | 918 m | 9.2 mi |
| Calf Mountain | NNW 342° | 908 m | 7.7 mi |
| Bear Den Mountain | NNW 334° | 879 m | 7.0 mi |
| Scott Mountain | NW 322° | 842 m | 7.2 mi |
| Dobie Mountain | W 271° | 820 m | 8.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:02 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 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 | 34 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 5.5 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Waynesboro WTP, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1474451 — Sharp Top, Albemarle County, Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356565949
Day trips start here
- Charlottesville · 15 mi
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