Waterfall · West Virginia

High Falls

High Falls, seen from above at true elevation

High Falls is a waterfall in West Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 881 m. Spruce Knob stands 1,482 m to the east-southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Beech Mountain, a peak 2.9 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 6.1 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Height: 6 m

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Coordinates38.77231, -79.77760

6.1 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
7.1 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
11.8 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
14.4 mi off the Back Mountain Backway

Overlooks nearby

Overlook · 13 mi

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks

Parks34

Beaver Dam Wildlife Management Area: 5.8 mi
Beverly Historic District: 7.1 mi
Valley Bend Wetland Wildlife Management Area: 8.7 mi
Stuart Recreation Area: 10.1 mi
Cheat Wildlife Management Area: 10.4 mi

Springs8

Pat Spring: 7.4 mi
Lorraine Burke Spring: 8.3 mi
Ernest Carr Spring: 9.8 mi
Cool Spring: 13.7 mi
Spruce Mountain Spring: 14.2 mi

Museums5

Randolph County Museum: 7.1 mi
West Virginia Railroad Museum: 11.2 mi
Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 22.1 mi
Sites Homestead: 22.2 mi
NRAO Science Center: 23.7 mi

Historic sites5

Wilson Monument: 8.6 mi
Elkins Roundhouse: 11.3 mi
Donald R. Gaudineer Memorial: 11.4 mi
1971 Plane Crash Site: 15.0 mi
Camp Bartow Historic Site: 16.2 mi

Cliffs5

Raven Rocks: 17.9 mi
Southern Pillar: 22.5 mi
Seneca Rocks: 22.5 mi
Seneca Rocks: 22.5 mi
Lower Slabs: 22.6 mi

Waterfalls4

Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 14.5 mi
Small waterfall: 14.5 mi
Falls of Seneca: 15.8 mi
High Falls of Cheat: 21.4 mi

Attractions4

Seneca Caverns: 21.0 mi
Helvetia Village Historic District: 23.3 mi
Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 24.0 mi
Rexrode’s Sugar Orchard: 24.6 mi

Ghost towns3

Gertrude: 7.2 mi
Mill Run: 20.8 mi
Stringtown: 22.2 mi

Nature reserves2

Gaudineer Scenic Area: 10.8 mi
Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 24.5 mi

Picnic sites2

Bear Haven Day Use Area: 12.1 mi
Locust Springs: 14.8 mi

Artworks1

H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 11.4 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.1 miles of High Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Spruce Knob	ESE 111°	1,482 m	14.1 mi
Pharis Knob	ESE 105°	1,410 m	8.4 mi
Horse Rock	E 95°	1,374 m	15.0 mi
Crouch Knob	SW 215°	1,374 m	17.0 mi
Job Knob	ENE 64°	1,353 m	15.2 mi
Gaudineer Knob	SSW 198°	1,351 m	11.4 mi
Brierpatch Mountain	ENE 59°	1,348 m	16.1 mi
Cunningham Knob	SE 128°	1,339 m	7.9 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:24	18:56	19:31
June solstice	05:55	20:08	20:48
September equinox	07:07	18:43	19:18
December solstice	07:35	16:19	17:01

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	25	28	35	46	55	63	66	66	59	48	38	30
Precip in	4.5	4.0	4.8	5.2	6.2	5.0	5.7	4.1	4.5	3.7	3.3	4.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glady 1 N, 4 mi away.

Streamflow

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–May — fullest in Mar, leanest in Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean cfs	548	605	702	532	460	239	158	144	88.4	122	245	460

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Tygart Valley River Near Dailey, WV, 6 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/3287010496

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