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Mount Rogers
- Easiest route
- 6.5 km+490 m · about 2.5 h · T2
- Prominence
- 747 m2,449 ft
- Tonight
- 37°FFair · Wind 8–12 mph SE
Mount Rogers is a 1,825 m (5,988 ft) mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, United States.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,825 m · 5,988 ft
- Range
- Blue Ridge Mountains
- Region
- Virginia, United States
- Protected area
- Jefferson National Forest
- Spanish name
- Monte Rogers
- Coordinates
- 36.6601° N, 81.5450° W
How to get to the top of Mount Rogers
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 3.7 km SSE of Mount Rogers
- Distance
- 6.5 kmone way
- Climb
- +490 m−30 m (1,608 ft up)
- Time up
- about 2.5 h
- Difficulty
- T2Mountain trail, sure footing needed
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Rogers 3D map
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Mount Rogers terrain and contours
50 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Mount Rogers weather
Tonight · Fair · 37°F (3°C) · Wind 8–12 mph SE
Mount Rogers forecast for the summit, about 1,641 m.
- Tonight37°–8–12 mph SE
- Sat38°52°–2–9 mph SE
- Sun38°50°–5–9 mph SE
- Mon43°56°–3 mph SW
- Tue44°58°–3 mph SE
- Wed43°54°–5–9 mph SE
- Thu44°56°–6 mph SW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 24, 00:00 UTC.
Camping & parking near Mount Rogers
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Rogers, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
1.8 km ENE
Nearest parking
3.4 km NNE
How steep is the route to Mount Rogers?
The easiest mapped route, 6.5 km from 1,285 m to 1,825 m. Steepest stretch: 15°.
- 0–15°6.5 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 80 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3.5 km, measured from the Mount Rogers summit.
Summit list 3
- 1Pine Mountain1,684 m 2.2 km E
- 2Wilburn Ridge1,689 m 2.6 km ESE
- 3Balsam Mountain1,403 m 3.3 km WSW
Where Mount Rogers sits
- Region
- Virginia13United States932North America1,313
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Watauga Lake↑55 km SW
Pilot MountainPeak · 738 m↑102 km ESE
Lake James365 m↑106 km SSW
Lake Tahoma↑115 km SSW
Mount MitchellPeak · 2,037 m↑119 km SSW
More in the Blue Ridge Mountains 6
Mount Rogers downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
79 m low This 3D map reads 1,746 m at the summit; the official height is 1,825 m.
Why: a 10 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 1 m model misses by 84 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,825 m | — |
| USGS 3DEP lidar | 1,741 m | -84 m |
| USGS 3DEP 10 m (used on this page) | 1,746 m | -79 m |
| Copernicus GLO-30 | 1,747 m | -78 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,744 m | -81 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024 (scene 2024-09-22)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Protected area
- USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
- Accuracy comparison
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Accuracy comparison
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia