Castle Spring
Castle Spring is a spring in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 464 m. Elliott Knob stands 1,358 m to the west-southwest, 8.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Trinity Point, a cliff 2.3 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 22 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 464 m
How to reach it
- 22.2 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 22.2 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
Overlooks nearby
- Shenandoah Valley Overlook · 22 mi
- Bald Mountain Overlook · 22 mi
- Rockfish Valley Overlook · 22 mi
- Fork Mountain Overlook · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Crawford Knob: 4.2 mi
- Little North Mountain: 4.5 mi
- Coalpit Knob: 5.8 mi
- Buck Hill: 6.0 mi
- Huckleberry Hill: 6.1 mi
- Gypsy Hill Park and Golf Course: 7.3 mi
- Montgomery Hall Park: 7.6 mi
- Reservoir Hill Park: 7.8 mi
- Booker Taliaferro Washington Community Center: 8.0 mi
- Newtown Historic District: 8.0 mi
- Cannon: 7.4 mi
- Statler Brothers: 8.3 mi
- Augusta County: 8.3 mi
- Confederate Breastworks Interpretive Site: 12.1 mi
- Fort Edward Johnson (1862): 12.1 mi
- Red Oak Spring: 4.9 mi
- Buffalo Spring: 6.3 mi
- Cold Spring: 9.0 mi
- Chestnut Flat Spring: 9.8 mi
- Cockran Spring: 11.1 mi
- Jumbo Antique Fire Engine Museum: 8.0 mi
- Augusta County Historical Society: 8.3 mi
- Historic Staunton Foundation: 8.3 mi
- Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum: 8.4 mi
- American Frontier Culture Museum: 10.3 mi
- Staunton: 8.2 mi
- Chodo IX: 8.3 mi
- Watering Can: 8.5 mi
- Flower Pots: 8.5 mi
- Duke Dog Statue: 22.4 mi
- Gypsy Hill Express Train: 7.5 mi
- Endless View Farms: 18.0 mi
- Apple Cannon: 18.1 mi
- Eagle’s Sugar Camp: 20.7 mi
- Fear Forest: 22.4 mi
- Mevluda Tahirovic Memorial Garden: 8.3 mi
- Anne Lee Bennett Memorial Garden: 8.5 mi
- Greenhouse Area: 14.9 mi
- Edith J. Carrier Arboretum: 22.5 mi
- ISAT Patio: 22.7 mi
- North River Picnic Area: 7.4 mi
- Mountain House Day Use Area: 10.9 mi
- Stonewall Ruritan Club Picnic Ground: 18.2 mi
- Humpback Rocks Picnic Area: 24.0 mi
- Betsy Bell and Mary Gray Wilderness Parks: 9.5 mi
- Mole Hill Acres: 20.1 mi
- Hayfields State Park: 20.3 mi
- Coursey Springs State Fish Hatchery: 21.5 mi
- Trinity Point: 2.3 mi
- Byrd Point: 20.7 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 23.9 mi
- St. Mary's Falls: 21.0 mi
- White Rock Falls: 23.5 mi
- Upper Shamokin Falls: 24.5 mi
- Mount Sidney Safety Rest Area North: 12.8 mi
- Mount Sidney Safety Rest Area South: 12.8 mi
- Chris Lantos Waterfront: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.9 miles of Castle Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elliott Knob | WSW 239° | 1,358 m | 8.0 mi |
| Hogback | WSW 238° | 1,355 m | 8.5 mi |
| Reddish Knob | N 350° | 1,338 m | 16.6 mi |
| Freezland Flat | NW 318° | 1,325 m | 11.6 mi |
| Little Bald Knob | NNW 342° | 1,320 m | 12.1 mi |
| Hardscrabble Knob | NW 324° | 1,305 m | 12.1 mi |
| Tearjacket Knob | NNW 326° | 1,289 m | 12.4 mi |
| Big Bald Knob | NNW 327° | 1,260 m | 10.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:05 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 16:19 | 17:01 |
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 | 54 | 62 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Staunton WTP, 6 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–May — fullest in Mar, leanest in Jul.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 33.1 | 36.4 | 53.1 | 47.5 | 38.5 | 24.8 | 7.7 | 8.9 | 13.8 | 13.1 | 25.4 | 29.1 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge North River Near Stokesville, VA, 8 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- White-tailed Deer4 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird3 obs
- Pileated Woodpecker3 obs
- Eastern Chipmunk3 obs
- Red-headed Woodpecker2 obs
- Red-bellied Woodpecker2 obs
- Eastern Cottontail2 obs
- American Goldfinch2 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/12309615876
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