Sunset Mountain
Sunset Mountain rises to 941 m in North Carolina. Wolfden Knob stands 1,493 m to the northeast, 7.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Patton Mountain, a peak 0.3 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 2.2 miles off.
The story
Mountain in North Carolina, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31642085, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 941 m
How to reach it
- 2.2 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 6.4 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 9.9 mi off the Drovers Road
- 11.9 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Lake Louise Falls: 5.2 mi
- Reems Creek Falls: 6.2 mi
- Cascades Falls: 11.1 mi
- Douglas Falls: 11.3 mi
- Walker Falls: 13.8 mi
- Patton Mountain: 0.3 mi
- Pleasant Knob: 1.0 mi
- Beaucatcher Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Cisco Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Rich Knob: 1.2 mi
- Sunset Park: 0.9 mi
- Albermarle Park: 1.0 mi
- Grove Park: 1.0 mi
- Weaver Park: 1.2 mi
- Martin Luther King Jr Park: 1.7 mi
- Overlook Castle: 0.6 mi
- Jeter C. Pritchard Historical Marker: 1.6 mi
- Giving Tree Memorial: 1.7 mi
- 1st U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery Marker: 1.8 mi
- Thomas Wolfe Memorial: 1.8 mi
- Griffing Rose Garden: 0.9 mi
- Elder & Sage Community Garden: 2.1 mi
- Burton Street Community Peace Garden: 3.9 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 5.0 mi
- Italian Garden: 5.6 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 1.9 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 1.9 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 2.0 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 2.0 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 2.1 mi
- Flat Iron Statue: 2.1 mi
- Deco Gecko: 2.1 mi
- Passage: 2.2 mi
- Wake: 2.5 mi
- rooster: 2.9 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 2.0 mi
- Ironland: 2.1 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 5.2 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 5.4 mi
- Little Snowball Lookout Tower: 11.3 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 1.7 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 4.2 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 9.5 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 10.9 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 11.6 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 8.9 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 13.7 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 19.6 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 21.0 mi
- The Pinnacles: 21.1 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 12.9 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 15.8 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 16.1 mi
- Crystal Spring: 21.3 mi
- Lenox Spring: 21.8 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 16.0 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 18.2 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 18.9 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 22.5 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 13.3 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 13.3 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 10.8 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 15.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.3 miles of Sunset Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolfden Knob | NE 52° | 1,493 m | 7.1 mi |
| Rocky Knob | NE 53° | 1,433 m | 6.0 mi |
| Richland Mountain | NE 47° | 1,429 m | 6.4 mi |
| Richland Knob | NE 47° | 1,429 m | 6.4 mi |
| Courthouse Knob | NE 41° | 1,322 m | 6.5 mi |
| High Swan | NE 56° | 1,300 m | 5.4 mi |
| Rice Knob | NE 44° | 1,219 m | 3.5 mi |
| Rock Knob | ENE 70° | 1,199 m | 6.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:16 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:42 | 17:21 |
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 | 38 | 42 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 75 | 74 | 68 | 58 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Asheville, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357809377
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- Asheville · 3 mi
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