Kit Bluff
Kit Bluff is a cliff in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 379 m. Chimneytop stands 945 m to the southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Brickyard Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Trail of the Lonesome Pine / Daniel Boone Heritage Trail passes 4.1 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 379 m
How to reach it
- 4.1 mi off the Trail of the Lonesome Pine / Daniel Boone Heritage Trail
- 12.6 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail - VA
Overlooks nearby
- Purchase Ridge Overlook · 15 mi
- Lover's Leap Overlook · 15 mi
- Tunnel Floor Observation Deck · 15 mi
- Powell Mountain Overlook · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Brickyard Park: 0.7 mi
- Centennial Park: 0.9 mi
- Riverview Splash Park: 1.0 mi
- Glen Bruce Park: 1.2 mi
- Domtar Park: 1.2 mi
- Moore Hill: 2.4 mi
- High Point: 3.2 mi
- Pine Hill: 3.4 mi
- Cherry Knobs: 3.9 mi
- Rocky Hill: 4.2 mi
- Battle of Kingsport: 2.5 mi
- Dickson Elementary School: 3.2 mi
- Eagle Scout Dedication: 4.5 mi
- Anderson Block House Monument: 6.0 mi
- Coach Harry Fry: 7.3 mi
- Skeleton Bluff: 4.1 mi
- Moody Bluff: 5.2 mi
- Laurel Run Cliffs: 6.4 mi
- Dorn Bluff: 6.9 mi
- Baker Bluff: 7.4 mi
- Car Museum: 2.0 mi
- Gray Fossil Site and Museum: 11.0 mi
- Gray Fossil Site and Museum Annex: 11.0 mi
- Rocky Mount State Historic Site: 15.8 mi
- Fannon Train Museum: 17.3 mi
- Kingsport Aquatic Center: 1.6 mi
- Appalachian Caverns: 14.2 mi
- Bristol Thunder Valley Dragway: 17.8 mi
- Johnson City Sign: 19.2 mi
- Downtown Square Breezeway: 19.4 mi
- Rest Area and Tennessee Welcome Center: 3.7 mi
- I-81 Rest Area - Greene County West: 16.8 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 18.4 mi
- I-81 Rest Area - Greene County East: 18.9 mi
- Virginia Welcome Center: 18.9 mi
- Jacob's Nature Park at Sinking Creek: 20.4 mi
- High Knob Recreation Area: 24.7 mi
- Junaluska: 17.8 mi
- ETSU Community Garden: 19.9 mi
- Abrams Falls: 20.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.7 miles of Kit Bluff. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chimneytop | SW 221° | 945 m | 11.6 mi |
| Chimneytop Mountain | SW 221° | 926 m | 11.5 mi |
| Big Knob | NNE 22° | 919 m | 9.7 mi |
| Fodderstack Mountain | SW 225° | 839 m | 14.7 mi |
| Stone Mountain | SW 229° | 789 m | 16.2 mi |
| Walker Mountain | ENE 71° | 727 m | 17.5 mi |
| Holston River Mountain | WSW 246° | 707 m | 4.2 mi |
| Miller Knob | NE 55° | 678 m | 12.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:13 | 20:14 | 20:53 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:39 | 16:39 | 17:19 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 40 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 73 | 77 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 47 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kingsport, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356814725
Day trips start here
- Kingsport · 1 mi
- Johnson City · 19 mi
- Bristol · 22 mi
- Elizabethton · 23 mi
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