Sleepy Creek Mountain
Sleepy Creek Mountain rises to 580 m in West Virginia. High Point stands 789 m to the west, 8.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Neglar Spring, a spring 1.0 miles away. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway passes 9.2 miles off.
The story
Sleepy Creek Mountain is a mountain ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians on the border between Morgan and Berkeley counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The long-distance Tuscarora Trail traverses the southern ridge and northern bench of the mountain. Together with Third Hill Mountain to the east, the two mountains form a blind valley that contains Sleepy Creek Lake and the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area. Sleepy Creek and Third Hill Mountains are distinctive for their height in the relatively level terrain of the far Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.
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Wikidata Q7539961, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 580 m
How to reach it
- 9.2 mi off the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway
- 0.6 mi off the Washington Heritage Trail, National
- 15.6 mi off the Historic National Road - Maryland, National
- 21.2 mi off the Antietam Campaign Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Devils Nose · 11 mi
- Prospect Overlook · 12 mi
- Banner's Overlook · 18 mi
- Sideling Hill Viewpoint · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- High Rock: 3.2 mi
- Shockeys Knob: 4.9 mi
- Little Mountain: 6.2 mi
- Roundtop: 6.3 mi
- Pinkerton Knob: 6.7 mi
- Community Fishing Holes: 5.9 mi
- Reynolds Store Neighborhood Park: 7.4 mi
- Rickli Memorial Soccer Complex: 7.5 mi
- Rt. 522 Ball Field Complex: 7.7 mi
- North Mountain Paintball: 8.3 mi
- Prospect Rock: 10.6 mi
- Captain John Kearney: 11.4 mi
- George Washington's Bathtub: 11.8 mi
- Berkeley Springs Baths: 11.8 mi
- Samuel Taylor Suit Cottage: 11.8 mi
- Thomas D. Ambrose Nature Center: 6.4 mi
- Museum of Berkeley Springs: 11.8 mi
- Belle Boyd House: 12.5 mi
- For the Kids by George Children's Museum: 12.5 mi
- CCC museum: 14.6 mi
- Morgan Arts Council: 11.9 mi
- Welcome Pineapple: 16.9 mi
- Stars and Stripes Apple Statue: 18.0 mi
- White House Apple Statue: 18.2 mi
- Bites of Local Life Apple Statue: 18.4 mi
- Farnham Colossi: 4.3 mi
- Almost Heaven Sign: 7.9 mi
- Almost Heaven Swing: 7.9 mi
- Captain's Quarters: 14.7 mi
- Junior Officer's Quarters: 14.7 mi
- Neglar Spring: 1.0 mi
- A natural spring at the Central Trail: 7.1 mi
- Natural Spring: 7.4 mi
- Lord Fairfax Spring: 11.8 mi
- Town Spring: 18.7 mi
- Gainsboro Tourist Park: 13.1 mi
- Virginia Welcome Center at Clear Brook: 15.4 mi
- Sideling Hill Rest Area Eastbound: 18.4 mi
- Sideling Hill Rest Area Westbound: 18.6 mi
- I-81 Southbound West Virginia Welcome Center: 20.6 mi
- Beach 2: 12.3 mi
- Beach 1: 12.3 mi
- Beach 3: 12.6 mi
- Hooks Mill Falls: 20.3 mi
- Mountain Falls: 24.6 mi
- Old Dam Waterfall: 24.9 mi
- Lovers Leap: 15.2 mi
- The Lockings: 22.4 mi
- Herman Rubenstein Memorial Garden: 16.3 mi
- Four Square Garden: 24.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.5 miles of Sleepy Creek Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Point | W 263° | 789 m | 8.1 mi |
| Spring Gap Mountain | W 270° | 679 m | 15.2 mi |
| Cacapon 2 | NW 311° | 673 m | 8.2 mi |
| Purslane Mountain | NW 314° | 568 m | 12.9 mi |
| Shockeys Knob | SSW 201° | 567 m | 4.9 mi |
| Pinkerton Knob | NNE 32° | 549 m | 6.7 mi |
| Butchers Knob | SW 234° | 540 m | 19.7 mi |
| Timber Mountain | WSW 238° | 538 m | 19.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:17 | 18:49 | 19:25 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 20:04 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 07:01 | 18:36 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 16:10 | 16:53 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 41 | 52 | 61 | 69 | 74 | 72 | 65 | 54 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cacapon ST PK #2, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1546935 — Sleepy Creek Mountain, Berkeley County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356521607
Day trips start here
- Martinsburg · 12 mi
- Hedgesville · 13 mi
- Hancock · 17 mi
- Shepherdstown · 21 mi
- Washington County · 23 mi
- Sharpsburg · 24 mi
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