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     Valley Lake is always a pleasure to visit. This lake is so wonderful. Don't leave Valley Lake without first going for a hike along the Pine Mountain Trail; as expected Benges Branch flows through this vicinity. You'll in fact wish for more hours in a day to enjoy all the fun stuff in the Cumberland Plateau Mountains. If you came to camp Jessie Lea Recreational Vehicle Park-Campground is a nice spot to do that, and a great close by hotel is Holiday Inn NORTON.  
   The yearly rainfall here at Valley Lake is about average; March is when you get the most rain here while October is mostly the driest month.
Summertime brings highs in the 80's to Valley Lake while night lows are mostly in the 60's. Daytime highs throughout the winter are in the 40's while the cold winter nights at Valley Lake are in the 20's. That right there is heaps of entertaining things already but it goes on, the Cumberland Plateau Mountains has it
 
               all. Inn at Norton is a fine place to get some rest, and a tremendous place for whitewater paddling is Powell River. And if you're still looking for more outdoors fun stuff just keep reading. There's some exciting stuff to see at Rimrock Lake Dam in the vicinity of Valley Lake; Powell River - South Fork is a delightful whitewater spot nearby.
This lake is one of the great places here in the Cumberland Plateau Mountains. This lake is so wonderful. Lakes are nice; Upper Norton Reservoir is a lake that's close to Valley Lake; while you're here why not take a look at Beaverdam Gap.
Camping at Bark Campground is always a splendid experience, and you're almost certainly addicted to lakes, Rimrock Lake is one of those nearby.

 
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Inn at Norton, Norton
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Current weather conditions at Valley Lake, Cumberland Plateau Mountains, Wise County, Virginia
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Local climate location: WISE 28 miles away


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  Coordinates:
Latitude: 36.90972
Longitude: -82.66639

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These outdoors activities are available near Valley Lake.
 Hotels Near Valley Lake:
Holiday Inn NORTON, Norton, 3 miles away
Inn at Norton, Norton, 3 miles away
Norton Days Inn, Norton, 4 miles away
Norton Super 8 Motel, Norton, 4 miles away
Best Western Of Wise, Wise, 6 miles away
 Camp Grounds Near Valley Lake:
Jessie Lea Recreational Vehicle Park-Campground, Big Stone Gap, 9 miles away
Bark Campground, Scott County, 10 miles away
Cane Patch Campground, Wise County, 11 miles away
Laurel Fork Campground, Wise County, 12 miles away
 Whitewater Near Valley Lake:
Powell River, Wise CountyCounty, 3 miles away
      Class II-IV - 3 miles long (Appalachia to Big Stone Gap)
Powell River - South Fork, Wise CountyCounty, 5 miles away
      Class V+ - 4 miles long (South Fork Gorge)
Big Stony - Devil's Fork, Scott CountyCounty, 6 miles away
      Class III+(IV) - 1.5 miles long (Straight Fork Confluence to Big Stony Takeout)
 Trails Near Valley Lake:
Pine Mountain Trail, Letcher County, 18 miles away
 Lakes Near Valley Lake:
Rimrock Lake, Wise CountyCounty, 2 miles away
Upper Norton Reservoir, Wise CountyCounty, 3 miles away

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Powell River - South Fork
I've been recording climate data in this area for 2 decades.The South Fork of the Powell River Gorge is one of the deepest chasms in all of Virginia, being 2000 vertical feet deep. It drains the highcountry southwest of the Big Cherry Basin of the High Knob massif...the greatest landform of far southwestern Virginia that sprawls across southern Wise County, northern Scott County, and into the extreme northeastern end of Lee County. This is a high precipitation area; although, 2007 has been the driest on record with 40-46'' across the upper elevations ( if you will check that is still above the annual average of many places in Virginia )....

Big Stony - Mountain Fork
I have been doing climate research on the High Knob massif, the great landform upon which many of these whitewater runs are listed for in Wise-Scott counties of Virginia, for some 20 years. This is a high precipitation area ( although 2007 has been the driest on record with 40''-46'' so far ) that tends to average 60''-70'' per year amid the mid-upper elevations ( 2500-3000+ feet ) along the Wise-Scott border. The city of Norton has been found to be the wettest town or city in Virginia over the long term, with an annual average during the 1983-2004 period of 57.54'' per year ( and that with some missing data during the winter months prior to 1999 ). Thought you would be interested in this information, since not alot of data is available on this area....

Pine Mountain Trail
18 miles away
The Bear still are in the caves on Pine Mountain. The siting of Bear near Raven, KY, down off the mountain, was just a visit from brother Bear. Leave Bear alone. www.redbirdband.com...

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