Turkey Cock Mountain
Turkey Cock Mountain rises to 504 m in South Carolina. Sassafras Mountain stands 1,087 m to the north, 8.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Rock Mountain, a peak 1.0 miles away. Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway passes 2.4 miles off.
The story
Mountain in South Carolina, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31659784, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 504 m
How to reach it
- 2.4 mi off the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway, National
- 13.9 mi off the Waterfall Byway
- 14.1 mi off the Forest Heritage Scenic Byway
- 14.6 mi off the Whitewater Way
Overlooks nearby
- Grant Meadow Overlook · 8 mi
- Chandler Rock Overlook · 14 mi
- Gorges Overlook · 14 mi
- Whitewater Falls Overlook · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Big Rock Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Turner Hill: 1.0 mi
- Cedar Rock Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Peach Orchard Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Odle Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Silver Ribbon Falls: 1.6 mi
- Allie's Falls: 1.8 mi
- Mizelle Falls: 1.8 mi
- Gauley Falls: 4.2 mi
- Good Golly Falls: 4.2 mi
- Dug Mountain Angler Access Area: 4.2 mi
- Pickens Recreation Center: 5.0 mi
- Jaycee Park: 5.3 mi
- Pickens Doodle Park: 6.2 mi
- Camp Cedar Creek: 6.4 mi
- Spiral Mesh: 18.7 mi
- Illuminated Chroma Wind Trees: 18.7 mi
- Paper Airplane: 18.8 mi
- Shift-Ascend: 18.8 mi
- P211.t45.2001: 18.9 mi
- Looper Memorial Marker: 11.6 mi
- Cateechee Mill: 11.9 mi
- Dedicated to Veterans World War: 12.0 mi
- Veterans memorial: 12.7 mi
- Julien D. Wyatt: 12.8 mi
- Irma Morris Museum of Fine Arts: 5.9 mi
- Pickens County Museum of Art & History: 6.1 mi
- The Real American Tea Museum: 7.8 mi
- World of Energy: 12.2 mi
- Central Railway Museum: 15.3 mi
- English Garden: 5.9 mi
- Common Gardening: 11.8 mi
- Trail Roundabout: 19.0 mi
- Janie Earle Furman Rose Garden: 19.3 mi
- Asia Garden: 19.5 mi
- Raven Cliff: 13.0 mi
- El Lieutenant: 13.0 mi
- Dunns Rock: 16.7 mi
- Castle Rock: 17.0 mi
- Cleveland Cliff: 17.4 mi
- The Twelve Mile Defense Bear: 5.9 mi
- Devil's Kitchen: 14.0 mi
- Tiny Town: 16.2 mi
- Howard's Rock: 18.7 mi
- Old Southern 1046 rail car: 19.0 mi
- Nalley Brown Nature Park: 13.7 mi
- Green Mountain Preserve: 16.8 mi
- Bracken Preserve: 20.9 mi
- Satulah Mountain Preserves: 24.3 mi
- Ralph and Louise Sargent Preserve: 24.4 mi
- South: 11.9 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 23.1 mi
- Picnic Tables Area: 23.6 mi
- Coontree Picnic Area: 23.8 mi
- Pavilion 2: 24.2 mi
- Sandstone Beach: 7.8 mi
- North Beach: 10.6 mi
- South Beach: 11.9 mi
- East Beach: 19.0 mi
- Sandbar Pool Beach: 20.3 mi
- Cool Spring: 10.8 mi
- Indian Spring: 14.4 mi
- Moody Spring: 17.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of Turkey Cock Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sassafras Mountain | N 1° | 1,087 m | 8.3 mi |
| Hickorynut Mountain | N 6° | 1,063 m | 7.3 mi |
| Pinnacle Mountain | NNE 20° | 1,041 m | 6.5 mi |
| Rock Mountain | N 3° | 1,003 m | 6.7 mi |
| Whiteoak Mountain | N 10° | 1,002 m | 8.6 mi |
| Caesars Head | N 358° | 978 m | 7.6 mi |
| Table Rock | NNE 31° | 953 m | 8.5 mi |
| Roundtop Mountain | N 358° | 929 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:10 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:18 | 20:11 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:56 | 19:30 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:45 | 17:24 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 44 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 76 | 79 | 78 | 72 | 61 | 51 | 44 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 5.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pickens, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357096227
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