River Ridge
River Ridge is a cliff in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 283 m. The Flag Pole stands 1,075 m to the west-northwest, 6.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Museum of Appalachia, a park 2.5 miles away. Norris Freeway passes 1.9 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 283 m
How to reach it
- 1.9 mi off the Norris Freeway, National
- 10.1 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Norris Dam Overlook · 3 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Museum of Appalachia: 2.5 mi
- River Bluff Small Wild Area: 3.1 mi
- Norris Dam State Park: 4.3 mi
- Pine Hill Community Park: 4.4 mi
- Clinton-Jaycee Park: 4.5 mi
- Observation Point: 3.4 mi
- Reservoir Hill: 3.8 mi
- High Point: 4.2 mi
- Militia Hill: 4.3 mi
- College Hill: 4.9 mi
- Village of Brothers: 3.5 mi
- Itinerant Miners' Cemetery: 3.5 mi
- Fraterville Disaster: 3.5 mi
- Ghosts of Convict Miners: 3.9 mi
- Fort Anderson: 3.9 mi
- Museum of Appalachia: 2.7 mi
- Norris Museum: 3.0 mi
- Lenoir Museum: 3.5 mi
- Coal Creek Miners Museum: 3.8 mi
- Green McAdoo Cultural Center: 5.3 mi
- Longmire Bluff: 8.9 mi
- Hewitt Bluff: 17.0 mi
- Bull Bluff: 17.3 mi
- Cherokee Bluffs: 19.4 mi
- Stubbs Bluff: 19.6 mi
- Loyston Point Recreation Area: 10.5 mi
- North Cumberland WMA-Sandquist Unit: 20.0 mi
- Royal Blue Wildlife Management Area: 20.1 mi
- House Mountain Park and State Natural Area: 20.3 mi
- Ijams Nature Center: 20.6 mi
- Baxter Gardens: 13.7 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 17.0 mi
- Cresent Bend Garden: 18.2 mi
- Grow Lab: 18.4 mi
- Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum: 18.7 mi
- Norris Dam Visitor Center: 3.7 mi
- Aspire: 5.8 mi
- Abandoned Train: 15.0 mi
- Knox Selfie Lab: 18.0 mi
- Train Cars: 20.8 mi
- Loyston: 11.1 mi
- Fork Mountain: 17.3 mi
- Wheat: 21.9 mi
- Love's Creek Spring: 17.8 mi
- Herron Spring: 20.0 mi
- Massengil Spring: 20.2 mi
- Alex Haley Statue: 18.5 mi
- Torchbearer Statue: 18.6 mi
- Pat Summitt Statue: 18.8 mi
- Emory Gap Falls: 20.0 mi
- Debord Falls: 20.4 mi
- Boyd Hollow Falls: 23.4 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 22.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.1 miles of River Ridge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Flag Pole | WNW 283° | 1,075 m | 6.6 mi |
| Cross Mountain | WNW 283° | 1,075 m | 6.6 mi |
| Redoak Mountain | W 274° | 1,027 m | 7.6 mi |
| Buffalo Mountain | W 265° | 1,008 m | 10.9 mi |
| Hurricane Mountain | NW 309° | 1,007 m | 11.4 mi |
| Pilot Mountain | WSW 258° | 993 m | 8.9 mi |
| Burge Mountain | W 271° | 993 m | 15.9 mi |
| Patterson Mountain | WSW 256° | 984 m | 13.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:15 | 19:48 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:20 | 20:58 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 19:01 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 07:45 | 16:46 | 17:26 |
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 | 35 | 39 | 47 | 56 | 64 | 71 | 74 | 74 | 68 | 57 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 5.1 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 5.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norris, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356829977
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