Three Top Mountain
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Three Top Mountain rises to 1,530 m in North Carolina. Snake Mountain stands 1,697 m to the southwest, 9.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Three Top Mountain Middle Peak, a peak 1.8 miles away. New River Valley Byway passes 6.1 miles off.
is also known as "Huckleberry Rock"
The story
Three Top Mountain (variant names: Three Tops) is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country, located west of the town of West Jefferson. Its elevation reaches 5,020 feet (1,530 m) at its highest peak, unofficially named "Big Rock." Three Top also has ten other sub-peaks of varying height. The mountain generates feeder streams to the North Fork New River.
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Wikidata Q7797871, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,530 m
How to reach it
- 6.1 mi off the New River Valley Byway
- 12.6 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 12.8 mi off the US 421 Scenic Byway
- 16.1 mi off the Mission Crossing
Overlooks nearby
- Mount Jefferson View · 13 mi
- Grandview Overlook · 14 mi
- Lewis Fork Overlook · 14 mi
- Jumpinoff Rock Overlook · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Three Top Mountain Middle Peak: 1.8 mi
- Bluff Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Three Top Mountain East Peak: 2.6 mi
- Big Knob: 3.4 mi
- The Peak: 3.6 mi
- Paddy Mountain Park: 4.7 mi
- Bowie Seagrave Memorial Park: 5.2 mi
- Back Street Park: 5.3 mi
- Ashe County Park: 6.3 mi
- Walter & Annie Cook Memorial Park: 8.1 mi
- Bluff Mountain Falls: 2.7 mi
- Sharpes Falls: 2.9 mi
- Nana Falls: 10.1 mi
- Gentry Creek Falls: 12.0 mi
- Betsy's Rock Falls: 13.7 mi
- Listening Rock: 14.0 mi
- Spring House: 14.2 mi
- Jesse Brown Cabin: 14.2 mi
- Cool Springs Baptist Church: 14.2 mi
- Big Pinnacle: 14.8 mi
- Doc Watson Statue: 15.3 mi
- Time and Honor: 15.3 mi
- The Magic Mailbox: 15.3 mi
- Hellbenders: 15.3 mi
- Tetness, the Polar Bear: 15.3 mi
- Mountain Farm Life Museum: 6.2 mi
- Museum of Ashe County History: 6.3 mi
- Welcome Center and Museum: 12.6 mi
- Children's Playhouse: 15.1 mi
- Hickory Ridge Living History Museum: 15.7 mi
- Johnson County Veterans Memorial Wall: 13.0 mi
- Historic Dam Site: 15.3 mi
- Watauga County Veterans Memorial: 15.3 mi
- Earth Day 2011: 15.5 mi
- Another Way (ShortCut): 17.7 mi
- Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery: 3.9 mi
- Watauga Extension Educational Garden: 15.3 mi
- Appalachian Roots Garden: 15.3 mi
- Fred Webb Jr. Outdoor Geology Laboratory and Rock Garden: 15.5 mi
- Sustainable Development Civic Garden Project: 15.5 mi
- Mount Jefferson Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Elk Knob Picnic Area: 8.5 mi
- Cascades Picnic Area: 14.2 mi
- Trials Playground: 14.5 mi
- Potters Truck Stop: 17.0 mi
- White Pine Cliffs: 16.5 mi
- Hayes Bluff: 17.0 mi
- Backbone Rock: 17.4 mi
- Alligator Back: 22.2 mi
- Wildcat Rock: 22.7 mi
- Boiling Spring: 13.0 mi
- Cave Spring: 13.7 mi
- Brig Spring: 15.0 mi
- Bear Wallow Spring: 24.7 mi
- Elk Shoals: 9.3 mi
- Watauga County US 221 Rest Area: 20.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.4 miles of Three Top Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snake Mountain | SW 227° | 1,697 m | 9.4 mi |
| The Peak | WSW 246° | 1,573 m | 3.6 mi |
| Bluff Mountain | SSE 164° | 1,542 m | 2.4 mi |
| Pond Mountain | NNW 340° | 1,511 m | 11.1 mi |
| Old Field Bald | SSW 210° | 1,506 m | 6.0 mi |
| Bald Mountain | SSE 161° | 1,502 m | 4.2 mi |
| Pine Orchard Knob | SSW 208° | 1,490 m | 7.4 mi |
| Harmon Knob | SW 216° | 1,466 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:04 | 19:38 |
| June solstice | 06:09 | 20:10 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:15 | 18:51 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:35 | 17:15 |
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 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 50 | 58 | 66 | 70 | 68 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jefferson 2 E, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1022943 — Three Top Mountain, Ashe County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357809442
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