The Friar
The Friar rises to 1,007 m in Virginia. Maintop Mountain stands 1,232 m to the north-northwest, 4.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Friar, a peak 0.8 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 4.9 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49082399, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,007 m
How to reach it
- 4.9 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 22.5 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
- 27.7 mi off the Highlands Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Yankee Horse Ridge Overlook · 5 mi
- Boston Knob Overlook · 7 mi
- Irish Creek Valley Overlook · 9 mi
- The Priest Overlook · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Friar: 0.8 mi
- Dismal Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Page Mountain: 2.0 mi
- The Cardinal: 2.2 mi
- Doefoot Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Otto Cline Powell monument: 15.2 mi
- Colonel Claudius Crozet: 17.9 mi
- Johnathan Daniels: 18.0 mi
- VMI World War II Memorial: 18.0 mi
- Jackson's Classroom: 18.0 mi
- Tye River Memorial Park: 5.6 mi
- Laurel Park: 13.1 mi
- Penny Park: 13.7 mi
- Glen Maury Park: 14.3 mi
- Ben Salem Wayside: 15.7 mi
- Amherst County Historical Museum: 13.0 mi
- Virginia Distillery Museum: 13.3 mi
- Monacan Ancestral Museum: 13.6 mi
- Saint Paul's Mission School: 13.7 mi
- Rockfish Valley Foundation Natural History Center: 13.8 mi
- Knight Statue: 13.5 mi
- Peristyle: 13.5 mi
- George Washington: 18.0 mi
- The Cannonball: 18.1 mi
- George C. Marshall: 18.1 mi
- Lovingston Springs: 4.3 mi
- Rock Spring: 4.4 mi
- Hog Camp Gap Spring: 4.7 mi
- Wiggins Spring: 5.3 mi
- Cow Camp Spring: 6.0 mi
- Yankee Horse Ridge: 4.9 mi
- Crabtree Falls: 5.8 mi
- Virginia Distillery Co. Distillery Tour & Tasting: 13.3 mi
- Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson: 18.5 mi
- Packet Boat Marshall: 23.0 mi
- Mt. Pleasant Roadless Area: 4.8 mi
- Fortune's Cove Preserve: 11.7 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain / Rockfish / Shields Gap: 12.3 mi
- Carry Nature Sanctuary: 14.9 mi
- Brushy Hills Preserve: 20.9 mi
- HumanKind and Hill City Master Gardener Davis Instructional Garden: 22.8 mi
- Randolph College Organic Garden: 23.0 mi
- Daniel's Hill Garden: 23.8 mi
- Daniel's Hill Center Garden: 24.1 mi
- Robert D Morrison Garden: 24.4 mi
- White Rock Falls: 9.6 mi
- Panther Falls: 10.9 mi
- St. Mary's Falls: 11.0 mi
- Upper Shamokin Falls: 14.9 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 9.3 mi
- Lovers Leap: 17.4 mi
- Humpback Rocks Picnic Area: 15.7 mi
- Nelson County Wayside: 16.7 mi
- Lake Monocan Beach: 15.9 mi
- Chris Lantos Waterfront: 23.1 mi
- Fairfield Safety Rest Area: 13.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of The Friar. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maintop Mountain | NNW 349° | 1,232 m | 4.3 mi |
| Bald Knob | WSW 252° | 1,232 m | 6.7 mi |
| Pompey Peak | WSW 251° | 1,229 m | 3.5 mi |
| The Priest | NE 35° | 1,227 m | 4.2 mi |
| Elk Pond Mountain | NW 313° | 1,226 m | 4.3 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | WSW 241° | 1,223 m | 4.1 mi |
| Three Ridges | NE 47° | 1,210 m | 9.0 mi |
| Cole Mountain | WSW 257° | 1,197 m | 5.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:03 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:15 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:21 | 17:02 |
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 | 30 | 32 | 39 | 50 | 58 | 68 | 72 | 69 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 34 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Montebello Fish Cultural STN, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1487825 — The Friar, Amherst County, Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356575174
Day trips start here
- Lynchburg · 25 mi
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