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Tanner Trading Fort

Tanner Trading Fort from directly overhead

Tanner Trading Fort is an attraction in Kentucky, at a modelled elevation of 188 m. Sugar Loaf Mountain stands 355 m to the east, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Ohio River Scenic Byway passes 20 miles off. 81 named places lie within 25 miles, 14 of them named summits.

On Blue Licks State Park, accessible via the Heritage Trail or via Rt. 68

How to reach it

Coordinates38.42047, -83.99317

81 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 29
  • Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park: 0.5 mi
  • Blue Licks Battlefield State Park: 0.6 mi
  • East Union Park: 7.6 mi
  • James Roff Memorial Centennial Park: 10.5 mi
  • Flemingsburg City Park: 13.9 mi
Museums: 14
  • Pioneer Museum: 0.8 mi
  • Kentucky Doll and Toy Museum: 7.7 mi
  • Cynthiana Harrison County Museum: 16.5 mi
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Slavery to Freedom Museum: 16.7 mi
  • Albert Sidney Johnston House: 16.8 mi
Historic sites: 14
Peaks: 14
  • Tunnel Hill: 4.5 mi
  • Locust Graveyard Hill: 16.6 mi
  • Fox Mountain: 17.8 mi
  • Tunnel Hill: 19.9 mi
  • White Oak Hill: 20.2 mi
Picnic sites: 3
Artworks: 3
  • The Maiden City: 16.6 mi
  • Eiffel Tower: 20.2 mi
  • Augusta, Kentucky: 24.4 mi
Nature reserves: 2
  • Simon Kenton Wildlife Management Area: 19.5 mi
  • Griffith Woods Wildlife Management Area: 20.4 mi
Attractions: 1
  • County Quad Point: 15.8 mi
Gardens: 1
  • Ripley Community Garden: 23.9 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Tanner Trading Fort. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sugar Loaf MountainE 80°355 m21.1 mi
Tanbark HillENE 75°355 m24.4 mi
White Oak HillSE 145°327 m20.2 mi
Five Forks HillSSW 192°307 m20.4 mi
Tunnel HillSSE 155°300 m19.9 mi
Tunnel HillESE 117°281 m4.5 mi
Liberty RidgeNW 305°280 m23.4 mi
Fox MountainE 92°276 m17.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4019:1319:48
June solstice06:1320:2421:04
September equinox07:2419:0019:35
December solstice07:5016:3817:19

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323543546472767468574537
Precip in3.73.54.74.74.84.85.83.53.43.53.24.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Flemingsburg 2 N, 14 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/682397389

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