Walnut Top
Walnut Top rises to 572 m in Virginia. Humpback Mountain stands 1,099 m to the west-northwest, 9.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Boaz Mountains, a peak 1.4 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 10.0 miles off.
The story
mountain in Virginia, United States of America
Wikidata Q49087481, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 572 m
How to reach it
- 10.0 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 11.4 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
- 16.1 mi off the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Glass Hollow Overlook · 10 mi
- Greenstone Overlook · 11 mi
- Catoctin Overlook · 11 mi
- Shenandoah Valley Overlook · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Boaz Mountains: 1.4 mi
- Turk Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Archer Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Heard Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Massies Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Cove Creek Park: 2.3 mi
- Walnut Creek Park: 8.4 mi
- Simpson Park: 9.4 mi
- Playground: 11.7 mi
- Claudius Crozet Park: 12.1 mi
- 3 Owl Statue: 13.4 mi
- Mountain Man: 13.8 mi
- Bear Statue: 13.9 mi
- The Sagacious Heads: 15.4 mi
- George Welsh: 15.6 mi
- Mirador: 9.8 mi
- VDOT Workers' Memorial: 10.8 mi
- Beaver Creek Watershed Project: 13.2 mi
- W181 Birthplace of Meriwether Lewis: 13.7 mi
- Locust Hill: 14.1 mi
- Murray Elementary Vegetable Garden: 13.3 mi
- Jane Heyward Garden: 14.5 mi
- Student Garden: 15.7 mi
- Keunen Garden: 16.5 mi
- Courtnay's Garden: 16.5 mi
- Waltons Mountain Museum: 7.4 mi
- Rockfish Valley Foundation Natural History Center: 8.6 mi
- Virginia Distillery Museum: 10.2 mi
- Waynesboro Heritage Museum: 14.5 mi
- Plumb House Museum: 14.8 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain / Rockfish / Shields Gap: 10.0 mi
- Fortune's Cove Preserve: 11.0 mi
- Mint Springs Valley Park: 13.1 mi
- Heyward Community Forest: 13.8 mi
- Van Clief Natural Area: 14.9 mi
- Laurel Springs Gap: 10.9 mi
- Dripping Rock: 11.1 mi
- Hickory Spring: 12.4 mi
- Coiner Spring: 15.1 mi
- Tinkling Spring: 18.6 mi
- Lake Monocan Beach: 7.1 mi
- Lake Monticello Beach 5: 22.4 mi
- Lake Monticello Beach 4: 22.7 mi
- Lake Monticello Beach 3: 23.3 mi
- Main Beach (Beach 1): 23.4 mi
- Virginia Distillery Co. Distillery Tour & Tasting: 10.2 mi
- James Monroe's Highland: 16.6 mi
- Free Speech Wall: 17.1 mi
- Crabtree Falls: 18.7 mi
- Apple Cannon: 20.2 mi
- Upper Shamokin Falls: 10.8 mi
- White Rock Falls: 17.1 mi
- St. Mary's Falls: 20.1 mi
- Jones Run Falls: 23.3 mi
- Lower Doyles River Falls: 24.0 mi
- Nelson County Wayside: 5.3 mi
- Humpback Rocks Picnic Area: 10.7 mi
- Dundo Picnic Grounds and Group Campground: 23.6 mi
- Canada: 16.0 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 17.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.5 miles of Walnut Top. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humpback Mountain | WNW 294° | 1,099 m | 9.4 mi |
| Humpback Rocks | WNW 298° | 949 m | 9.9 mi |
| Crawford Knob | WNW 284° | 918 m | 8.8 mi |
| Dobie Mountain | NW 305° | 820 m | 10.1 mi |
| Horseshoe Mountain | WSW 248° | 741 m | 9.4 mi |
| Heard Mountain | N 2° | 726 m | 2.5 mi |
| Castle Rock | NNE 11° | 722 m | 4.0 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | SSW 209° | 677 m | 8.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:02 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:19 | 17:00 |
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 | 34 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 5.5 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Waynesboro WTP, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1493754 — Walnut Top, Albemarle County, Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356582167
Day trips start here
- Charlottesville · 17 mi
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