South Mountain
South Mountain rises to 995 m in North Carolina. Big Butt stands 1,807 m to the east-southeast, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Cold Knob, a peak 1.3 miles away. Interstate 26 Scenic Highway passes 4.8 miles off.
The story
mountain in Madison County, North Carolina, United States
Wikidata Q31641241, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 995 m
How to reach it
- 4.8 mi off the Interstate 26 Scenic Highway
- 7.8 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 11.3 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 16.4 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Cold Knob: 1.3 mi
- Moody Knob: 1.3 mi
- Razor Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Mill Knob: 2.1 mi
- Campground Knob: 2.1 mi
- Mars Hill Recreation Park: 6.8 mi
- Upper Laurel Community Center Park: 8.2 mi
- North Buncombe District Park: 9.2 mi
- Burnsville Town Square: 9.9 mi
- Ray–Cort Recreation Park: 10.2 mi
- Walker Falls: 6.9 mi
- Falling Water Branch Falls: 7.6 mi
- Douglas Falls: 8.2 mi
- Glassmine Falls: 8.8 mi
- Cascades Falls: 8.8 mi
- Otway Burns: 9.9 mi
- Yancey County Veterans Memorial: 10.0 mi
- Yancey County Confederate Soldiers Monument: 10.0 mi
- Tennis Court: 11.0 mi
- Spring House: 11.0 mi
- Mountain Gardens: 12.4 mi
- Terrace garden: 12.4 mi
- Camp Celo Gardens: 14.1 mi
- Griffing Rose Garden: 15.1 mi
- Dr. John Wilson Community Garden: 16.4 mi
- Friends: 9.9 mi
- Stream: 9.9 mi
- Black Mountain Range: 9.9 mi
- Petal & Leaves: 9.9 mi
- Rock Bridge: 9.9 mi
- Rural Heritage Museum: 6.2 mi
- McElroy House: 9.9 mi
- The Lloyd Bailey Annex: 9.9 mi
- Mt Mitchell Museum: 10.6 mi
- Dry Ridge Historical Museum: 12.0 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 13.4 mi
- Baxter Cliff: 19.9 mi
- Whiterock Cliff: 20.2 mi
- Blackstack Cliffs: 20.5 mi
- Blackstack Cliffs: 20.5 mi
- Navitat Canopy Adventures: 2.1 mi
- Little Snowball Lookout Tower: 4.6 mi
- French Broad Rafting: 16.0 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 16.5 mi
- Buck Creek Trout Farm: 17.1 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 8.0 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 11.5 mi
- Rocky Knob: 12.5 mi
- Marshall Nature Sanctuary: 13.1 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 15.0 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 12.6 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 13.1 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 18.1 mi
- Cold Spring: 21.9 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 10.6 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 13.2 mi
- Lost Cove: 16.9 mi
- Riverside Park Beach Access: 21.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.4 miles of South Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Butt | ESE 119° | 1,807 m | 5.9 mi |
| Flat Spring Knob | ESE 114° | 1,728 m | 5.9 mi |
| Little Butt | SE 124° | 1,708 m | 6.4 mi |
| Ogle Ridge | E 93° | 1,664 m | 4.5 mi |
| Coxcomb Mountain | E 101° | 1,655 m | 3.7 mi |
| Licklog Mountain | E 82° | 1,570 m | 4.4 mi |
| High Knob | ESE 102° | 1,568 m | 6.1 mi |
| Blue Knob | ENE 77° | 1,497 m | 5.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:15 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:55 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:41 | 17:20 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 27 | 32 | 41 | 50 | 56 | 60 | 59 | 54 | 45 | 36 | 30 |
| Precip in | 7.5 | 5.6 | 7.2 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 6.9 | 7.7 | 8.8 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 6.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Mitchell, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1022712 — South Mountain, Madison County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357809299
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