Pitt Spring
Pitt Spring is a spring in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 537 m. Hazeltop stands 1,149 m to the east-southeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Catherine Furnace, a historic site 1.3 miles away. Skyline Drive passes 12 miles off.
How to reach it
- 12.0 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
Overlooks nearby
- Blackrock Overlook · 12 mi
- Tanners Ridge Overlook · 12 mi
- Naked Creek Overlook · 12 mi
- Hazeltop Ridge Overlook · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Big Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Roark Hill: 2.5 mi
- Bird Knob: 2.8 mi
- Short Horse Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Lincoln Hill: 3.7 mi
- New Market Community Park: 5.5 mi
- New Market Pocket Park: 5.8 mi
- Rebel Park: 6.1 mi
- Stonewall Memorial Park: 10.6 mi
- Carillon Park: 11.9 mi
- Catherine Furnace: 1.3 mi
- Abraham Lincoln's Father: 5.9 mi
- 54th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment: 7.0 mi
- Fallen Solider Tribute: 7.8 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 10.6 mi
- Town of Shenandoah Museum & Welcome Center: 5.8 mi
- Museum of American Calvary: 6.0 mi
- New Market Battlefield Military Museum & Wharton Advance Trail: 6.2 mi
- New Market Battlefield Military Museum: 6.3 mi
- Plains District Memorial Museum: 8.1 mi
- Lewis Spring Falls: 11.7 mi
- Naked Creek Falls: 11.8 mi
- Big Creek Falls: 12.2 mi
- Upper Big Creek Falls: 12.3 mi
- Dark Hollow Falls: 13.1 mi
- Bear Lithia Spring: 9.1 mi
- Hiden Spring: 11.1 mi
- Elkton Spring: 11.4 mi
- Rockingham springs: 11.5 mi
- Lewis Spring: 12.0 mi
- Happy Moon, 10,000 Smiles: 8.3 mi
- Statue of Liberty: 10.4 mi
- Cootie Bug: 10.4 mi
- Love: 11.8 mi
- Flames: 13.6 mi
- Picnic Area: 11.7 mi
- Picnic Area: 11.8 mi
- Big Meadows Picnic Grounds: 12.1 mi
- Picnic Grounds: 13.0 mi
- Pavilian: 13.8 mi
- Cooter's Luray: 8.2 mi
- Shenandoah Caverns: 10.5 mi
- Luray Caverns: 11.7 mi
- Luray Caverns: 11.7 mi
- The Garden Maze: 11.8 mi
- Yellow Cliffs: 5.0 mi
- Huckleberry Cliff: 12.0 mi
- Franklin Cliffs: 13.0 mi
- Halfmile Cliff: 16.0 mi
- Mitchell Bluff: 20.9 mi
- Heishman Garden: 13.6 mi
- ISAT Patio: 14.3 mi
- Edith J. Carrier Arboretum: 14.5 mi
- W.O. Riley Park Garden: 23.2 mi
- Old grape garden: 23.4 mi
- PATC Entry Run Tract: 16.2 mi
- Mole Hill Acres: 17.7 mi
- Water Street Nature Reserve: 22.7 mi
- Patricia Ann Byrom Forest Preserve Park: 23.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.7 miles of Pitt Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazeltop | ESE 118° | 1,149 m | 12.7 mi |
| Blackrock | ESE 102° | 1,116 m | 11.9 mi |
| Lairds Knob | SSW 206° | 1,000 m | 8.9 mi |
| Grubbs Knob | SSW 207° | 975 m | 7.2 mi |
| Morgan Knob | SSW 197° | 936 m | 4.1 mi |
| Third Mountain | SSW 197° | 932 m | 4.1 mi |
| Kaylor Knob | SSW 203° | 889 m | 9.2 mi |
| Chapman Mountain | ESE 111° | 870 m | 10.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:51 | 20:03 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:38 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:16 | 16:58 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 27 | 30 | 35 | 47 | 55 | 62 | 67 | 65 | 61 | 50 | 40 | 32 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — BIG Meadows, 12 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Jun — fullest in Mar, leanest in Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 47.0 | 51.7 | 61.3 | 43.7 | 42.4 | 38.1 | 23.9 | 22.3 | 32.5 | 22.1 | 28.0 | 38.3 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Linville Creek AT Broadway, VA, 8 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Northern Dusky Salamander6 obs
- Red-spotted Admiral5 obs
- American Toad5 obs
- northern green-and-gold5 obs
- rough horsetail4 obs
- purple-stem cliffbrake4 obs
- Black-and-yellow Lichen Moth4 obs
- Eastern Newt3 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/6473232504
Day trips start here
- Shenandoah National Park · 12 mi
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