Sugar Knob
Sugar Knob rises to 542 m in West Virginia. Back Fork Mountain stands 1,138 m to the southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Moon Hill, a peak 0.8 miles away. Little Kanawha Parkway passes 11 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States.
Wikidata Q31536173, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 542 m
How to reach it
- 11.0 mi off the Little Kanawha Parkway
- 15.0 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 25.2 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Moon Hill: 0.8 mi
- High Knob: 1.1 mi
- Green Hill: 2.0 mi
- Haystack Knob: 3.2 mi
- Cochran Knob: 3.3 mi
- Fort Pickens Monument: 1.6 mi
- Bulltown Historic Area: 4.7 mi
- Falls Mill Access Area: 4.9 mi
- Bulltown Recreation Area: 5.1 mi
- Burnsville Lake Wildlife Management Area: 6.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 8.0 mi
- Gilmer County: 13.7 mi
- Dollar General Trailer: 16.0 mi
- Old Hill Cemetary: 16.7 mi
- The National Exchange Bank Of Weston: 16.7 mi
- Fidler's Mill - Historic Gristmill & Building: 6.9 mi
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: 16.9 mi
- West Virginia Museum of American Glass: 16.9 mi
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (West Virginia Hospital for the Insane/Weston State Hospital): 16.9 mi
- Mountaineer Military Museum: 17.0 mi
- Courthouse Rock: 3.3 mi
- Hanging Rock: 7.5 mi
- Raven Rocks: 23.7 mi
- Burnsville Waterfall: 9.0 mi
- Tecumseh Falls: 10.5 mi
- Tenskwatawa Falls: 12.1 mi
- West Virginia Wildlife Reserve: 9.8 mi
- Stonewall Resort State Park: 10.7 mi
- Cedar Creek State Park: 21.7 mi
- Helvetia Village Historic District: 16.0 mi
- Weston Historic Walking Tour: 16.8 mi
- Maniac Mountain: 24.7 mi
- Bulltown Swimming Area: 5.0 mi
- Bee Run Swimming Area: 14.8 mi
- Bulltown: 4.9 mi
- Bulltown Picnic Area: 5.4 mi
- Buckhannon Mural: 19.0 mi
- Biology Demonstration Garden: 21.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.8 miles of Sugar Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back Fork Mountain | SE 132° | 1,138 m | 20.5 mi |
| Turkeybone Mountain | SE 126° | 1,132 m | 19.0 mi |
| Blue Rock Knob | ESE 108° | 1,113 m | 20.4 mi |
| Beech Mountain | ESE 115° | 1,083 m | 20.1 mi |
| Round Knob | ESE 120° | 1,073 m | 20.0 mi |
| High Germany Knob | E 100° | 1,065 m | 19.5 mi |
| Pisgah Knob | SE 134° | 1,018 m | 17.9 mi |
| Buffalo Bull Knob | SSE 166° | 853 m | 19.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 18:59 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 05:58 | 20:11 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:22 | 17:04 |
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 | 60 | 68 | 71 | 70 | 64 | 53 | 43 | 36 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 5.8 | 5.1 | 6.1 | 5.1 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rock Cave 2 NE, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1555735 — Sugar Knob, Braxton County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356525311
Day trips start here
- Weston · 17 mi
- Buckhannon · 19 mi
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