Big Spring
Big Spring is a spring in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 676 m. Garden Mountain stands 1,437 m to the north-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Carter Mountain, a peak 3.4 miles away. Mount Rogers Scenic Byway passes 7.3 miles off.
How to reach it
- 7.3 mi off the Mount Rogers Scenic Byway
- 15.5 mi off the Big Walker Mountain Scenic Byway
- 13.4 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail - VA
- 26.1 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail, National
Overlooks nearby
- Big Walker Lookout · 16 mi
- Pinnacle Rock Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Carter Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Three C Benchmark: 3.4 mi
- Bryants Knob: 3.4 mi
- Little Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Goat Knob: 3.6 mi
- Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia: 7.8 mi
- Burkes Garden Rural Historic District: 13.5 mi
- Dark Hollow Picnic Area: 16.1 mi
- Cavitt's Creek Park: 16.4 mi
- Hugh Helton Veterans Memorial Park: 16.8 mi
- Clinch Mountian: 13.7 mi
- Clinch Mountain WMA: 17.5 mi
- Clinch Mountain WMA: 18.3 mi
- Clinch Mountain WMA: 19.1 mi
- Clinch Mountain WMA: 19.2 mi
- Smyth County Museum: 7.4 mi
- Historic Crab Orchard Museum: 14.0 mi
- Museum Of The Middle Appalachians: 16.5 mi
- Peery & St. Clair Building: 12.8 mi
- This Way: 24.1 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 24.6 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 19.1 mi
- Raven Cliff: 24.0 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 24.4 mi
- Sharon Springs: 13.4 mi
- Cold Spring: 23.4 mi
- Comer’s Creek Falls: 15.2 mi
- Straight Branch Falls: 24.1 mi
- Wooly: 16.5 mi
- Bluefield Love Sign: 24.7 mi
- Big Pinnacle: 21.1 mi
- Listening Rock: 21.9 mi
- Big Walker Lookout: 15.6 mi
- Hix: 22.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.2 miles of Big Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden Mountain | NNE 18° | 1,437 m | 10.7 mi |
| Morris Knob | NW 315° | 1,358 m | 11.3 mi |
| Hutchinson Rock | NNE 19° | 1,348 m | 12.3 mi |
| Chestnut Knob | NNE 25° | 1,344 m | 9.5 mi |
| Knob Mountain | NW 326° | 1,270 m | 11.4 mi |
| Clinch Mountain | NNW 333° | 1,265 m | 8.0 mi |
| Ghost Knob | NNE 21° | 1,250 m | 13.5 mi |
| Glade Mountain | SE 136° | 1,245 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:30 | 19:04 | 19:38 |
| June solstice | 06:08 | 20:11 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:14 | 18:50 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:33 | 17:13 |
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 | 33 | 40 | 49 | 57 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 61 | 50 | 40 | 33 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burkes Garden, 13 mi away.
- pink lady's slipper2 obs
- Fraser Magnolia2 obs
- Larger Elm Leaf Beetle2 obs
- fringed polygala2 obs
- Saffron Shiner2 obs
- Blue Jay1 obs
- Eastern Kingbird1 obs
- White-spotted Slimy Salamander1 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/10004374443
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