Sugar Mountain
Sugar Mountain rises to 1,585 m in North Carolina. Calloway Peak stands 1,804 m to the east-southeast, 3.8 miles off. The nearest named place is J. Douglass Williams Park, a park 1.0 miles away. Mission Crossing passes 2.4 miles off.
The story
Sugar Mountain is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country and wholly in the Pisgah National Forest. Its elevation reaches 5,236 feet (1,596 m) and is split along the Eastern Continental Divide, generating feeder streams for the Linville, Elk, and North Toe rivers. On its north slope resides the Village of Sugar Mountain.
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Wikidata Q7634879, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,585 m
How to reach it
- 2.4 mi off the Mission Crossing
- 3.0 mi off the Little Parkway
- 3.7 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 9.6 mi off the Pisgah Loop Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Patio View of MacRae Peak · 3 mi
- Watauga View · 4 mi
- Calloway Peak · 4 mi
- Grandmother View · 4 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Flattop Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Bald Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Hemlock Hill: 2.2 mi
- Peak Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Brier Knob: 3.0 mi
- Otter Falls: 4.1 mi
- Tanawha Falls: 4.7 mi
- Andrews Creek Falls: 5.1 mi
- Green Mountain Falls: 5.5 mi
- Little Wilson Creek Falls: 5.7 mi
- J. Douglass Williams Park: 1.0 mi
- Tufts Memorial Park: 1.7 mi
- Norris Clifton Park: 2.3 mi
- Swank Park: 2.6 mi
- Tate-Evans Park: 2.6 mi
- The Gardener: 11.0 mi
- Jessie: 11.0 mi
- The Rock: 12.3 mi
- Yosef the Mountain Man: 12.4 mi
- Daniel Boone and his Hunting Dogs: 12.4 mi
- Wilderness Run Alpine Coaster: 1.8 mi
- Stack Rock: 3.9 mi
- Linn Cove Viaduct: 4.1 mi
- Greater Foscoe Mining Company: 6.2 mi
- Mountain Magic Resort: 11.0 mi
- Flattop Cliffs: 1.0 mi
- Linville Bluffs: 3.1 mi
- Scheer Bluffs: 3.3 mi
- High Point Cliff: 4.6 mi
- Rattlesnake Cliffs: 5.8 mi
- Law Enforcement Memorial: 3.8 mi
- Avery County Veterans Memorial: 3.8 mi
- Buck Ridge Lookout Tower: 10.4 mi
- Old Blowing Rock Sewage Pump Station: 10.8 mi
- Mortimer memorial: 11.7 mi
- Wilson Center for Nature Discovery: 3.3 mi
- Avery County Musuem: 3.8 mi
- Beech Mountain History Museum: 4.4 mi
- Moses Cone Manor: 10.3 mi
- Blowing Rock Art & History Museum: 11.0 mi
- Cliffside Picnic Area: 3.1 mi
- Woods Walk: 3.2 mi
- Forrest Gump Picnic Area: 3.2 mi
- Julian Price Memorial Park Picnic Area: 8.3 mi
- Linville Falls Picnic Area: 10.8 mi
- Sustainable Development Civic Garden Project: 12.3 mi
- Watauga Extension Educational Garden: 12.4 mi
- Fred Webb Jr. Outdoor Geology Laboratory and Rock Garden: 12.5 mi
- Appalachian Roots Garden: 12.8 mi
- Daniel Boone Native Gardens: 12.8 mi
- Peak Mountain Conservation Area: 3.2 mi
- Elk Valley Preserve: 3.8 mi
- Foscoe Wetland Conservation Area: 4.8 mi
- Lost Cove Wilderness Study Area: 7.8 mi
- Annie Cannon Gardens: 10.9 mi
- Shanty Springs: 3.4 mi
- Bear Wallow Spring: 4.6 mi
- Hampton Spring: 19.9 mi
- Water Tree (Blackgum Springs): 20.0 mi
- Gully Pipe: 20.3 mi
- Watauga County US 221 Rest Area: 9.8 mi
- Brown Mountain View: 12.7 mi
- Riverside Park Beach Access: 18.0 mi
- Shook Branch Swimming Area: 18.7 mi
- Mortimer: 11.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.3 miles of Sugar Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calloway Peak | ESE 104° | 1,804 m | 3.8 mi |
| Hump Mountain | W 278° | 1,688 m | 7.7 mi |
| Beech Mountain | N 356° | 1,663 m | 4.2 mi |
| Pinnacles of the Beech | N 355° | 1,652 m | 4.1 mi |
| Hanging Rock | NE 55° | 1,582 m | 3.5 mi |
| Flattop Mountain | SE 130° | 1,502 m | 1.0 mi |
| Rocky Knob | NNE 17° | 1,502 m | 5.6 mi |
| Elk Park 9 | W 279° | 1,474 m | 6.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:32 | 19:06 | 19:40 |
| June solstice | 06:11 | 20:10 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:52 | 19:26 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:37 | 17:17 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 34 | 40 | 50 | 58 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 61 | 51 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 4.6 | 3.7 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 5.7 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Banner ELK, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357809367
Day trips start here
- Elizabethton · 25 mi
- Johnson City · 30 mi
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