Phillips Branch Falls
Phillips Branch Falls is a waterfall in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 507 m. Pilot Knob stands 1,466 m to the north, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Woodcock Knob, a peak 0.2 miles away. Pisgah Loop Scenic Byway passes 3.8 miles off.
What the record says
- Height
- 13 m
How to reach it
- 3.8 mi off the Pisgah Loop Scenic Byway
- 6.8 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 8.4 mi off the Little Parkway
- 11.5 mi off the Upper Yadkin Way
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Woodcock Knob: 0.2 mi
- Yellow Buck Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Jackson Knob: 1.8 mi
- Little Chestnut Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Chestnut Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Harper Creek Falls: 1.1 mi
- Destiny Falls: 2.0 mi
- Thorps Creek Falls: 2.1 mi
- South Harper Creek Falls: 2.3 mi
- Upper South Harper Creek Falls: 2.4 mi
- Daniel Boone Wildlife Management Area: 1.3 mi
- Hard & Flossie Clark Family Park: 6.3 mi
- Point Park: 8.5 mi
- Crossnore Town Park: 9.3 mi
- Norris Clifton Park: 10.0 mi
- The Gardener: 12.5 mi
- Jessie: 12.6 mi
- Fonta Flora Covered Bridge: 12.9 mi
- Four Trumpets: 13.2 mi
- Amaryllis Architecturalis: 13.4 mi
- House Of Mugs (Collettsville Cup House): 3.5 mi
- Stack Rock: 8.8 mi
- Linn Cove Viaduct: 8.9 mi
- Linville Caverns: 9.9 mi
- Daffodil Flats: 12.0 mi
- Wilson Creek Visitor Center: 0.9 mi
- Wilson Center for Nature Discovery: 9.1 mi
- Avery County Musuem: 11.9 mi
- Blowing Rock Art & History Museum: 12.3 mi
- Blowing Rock 1888 Museum: 12.5 mi
- Mortimer memorial: 1.3 mi
- Avery County Veterans Memorial: 11.9 mi
- Law Enforcement Memorial: 11.9 mi
- Old Blowing Rock Sewage Pump Station: 12.2 mi
- Historic Town Limit: 15.8 mi
- Raven Cliff: 3.0 mi
- Little Lost Cove Cliffs: 4.6 mi
- Big Lost Cove Cliffs: 5.5 mi
- Rattlesnake Cliffs: 6.6 mi
- Scheer Bluffs: 9.2 mi
- Lost Cove Wilderness Study Area: 4.5 mi
- Peak Mountain Conservation Area: 12.1 mi
- Foscoe Wetland Conservation Area: 12.3 mi
- Annie Cannon Gardens: 12.4 mi
- Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina: 15.9 mi
- Woods Walk: 9.1 mi
- Forrest Gump Picnic Area: 9.2 mi
- Linville Falls Picnic Area: 9.3 mi
- Cliffside Picnic Area: 9.3 mi
- Julian Price Memorial Park Picnic Area: 12.1 mi
- Beall Street Community Gardens: 13.0 mi
- Elizabeth Young Community Garden: 17.0 mi
- Mitchell Giving Gardens: 17.1 mi
- Daniel Boone Native Gardens: 17.6 mi
- Sustainable Development Civic Garden Project: 17.7 mi
- Bear Wallow Spring: 9.9 mi
- Shanty Springs: 10.2 mi
- Water Tree (Blackgum Springs): 11.5 mi
- Gully Pipe: 11.9 mi
- Swimming beach: 16.2 mi
- Boat beach: 16.2 mi
- Riverside Park Beach Access: 16.9 mi
- Brown Mountain View: 4.3 mi
- Watauga County US 221 Rest Area: 12.9 mi
- Mortimer: 1.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Phillips Branch Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot Knob | N 355° | 1,466 m | 9.2 mi |
| Grandmother Mountain | NNW 329° | 1,408 m | 7.7 mi |
| Beacon Heights | NNW 338° | 1,327 m | 8.5 mi |
| Little Bald | NW 325° | 1,307 m | 7.3 mi |
| Ball Ground Mountain | W 271° | 1,294 m | 7.3 mi |
| Gingercake Mountain | WSW 253° | 1,262 m | 7.0 mi |
| Cranberry Knob | W 279° | 1,258 m | 6.4 mi |
| Camp Creek Mountain | WNW 283° | 1,254 m | 7.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:32 | 19:05 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 06:12 | 20:10 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:52 | 19:26 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:38 | 17:17 |
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 | 29 | 31 | 38 | 47 | 55 | 61 | 65 | 64 | 59 | 49 | 40 | 34 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 3.9 | 5.4 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 5.8 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 4.2 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Grandfather MTN, 10 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–May — fullest in Apr, leanest in Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 455 | 433 | 485 | 494 | 446 | 354 | 308 | 312 | 343 | 304 | 349 | 399 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Johns River AT Arneys Store, NC, 10 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/536202095
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