Sheep Pen Bluff
Sheep Pen Bluff is a cliff in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 248 m. Look Rock stands 810 m to the south-southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Keller Bend Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Norris Freeway passes 19 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 248 m
How to reach it
- 18.7 mi off the Norris Freeway, National
- 26.8 mi off the Indian Lakes Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Norris Dam Overlook · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Keller Bend Park: 0.7 mi
- Louisville Point Park: 1.3 mi
- Admiral Farragut Park: 1.7 mi
- Carl Cowan Park: 1.9 mi
- Rogers Island Rd Park: 3.2 mi
- Mountain Hill: 1.1 mi
- Rocky Hill: 1.1 mi
- Logan Hill: 1.8 mi
- Red Hill: 6.4 mi
- Maxie Ridge: 8.4 mi
- Pistol Creek Dam and Mill Race: 7.8 mi
- Tucker Springs Historical Marker: 8.2 mi
- Lenoir Cotton Mill: 11.3 mi
- Terra: 11.5 mi
- 79th New York Infantry Momument: 11.5 mi
- Cades Cove Preservation Association & Cades Cove Museum: 8.4 mi
- McClung Museum: 11.3 mi
- Lenoir City Museum & Cotton: 11.4 mi
- Knoxville Museum of Art: 11.9 mi
- Blount Mansion: 12.2 mi
- Keller Bluff: 0.8 mi
- Wright Bluff: 4.9 mi
- Leeper Bluff: 7.9 mi
- Cherokee Bluffs: 8.5 mi
- Mizell Bluff: 10.7 mi
- Maryville Greenbelt Amphitheater: 7.9 mi
- Knox Selfie Lab: 12.4 mi
- Nick's MTB Trails: 15.6 mi
- Greenback Castle: 15.7 mi
- Caboose: 16.3 mi
- Cresent Bend Garden: 10.4 mi
- University of Tennessee Gardens: 10.5 mi
- Beall Family Rose Garden: 10.5 mi
- Kitchen Garden: 10.5 mi
- Adaptive and Enabling Garden: 10.5 mi
- Herron Spring: 6.7 mi
- Ebb and Flow Spring: 9.5 mi
- Hardin Spring: 9.6 mi
- Poplar Spring: 12.8 mi
- Love's Creek Spring: 17.4 mi
- Boyd Hollow Falls: 13.9 mi
- Abrams Falls: 18.9 mi
- Crooked Arm Cascades: 22.5 mi
- White Oak Sinks Falls: 22.8 mi
- Meadow Branch Cascade: 23.6 mi
- Baker Creek Preserve: 12.5 mi
- William Hastie Natural Area: 12.7 mi
- Marie Myers Park: 13.0 mi
- Grayson Subaru Nature Preserve: 13.9 mi
- Ijams Nature Center: 14.1 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 5.2 mi
- Look Rock Picnic Area: 15.5 mi
- Cades Cove Picnic Area: 23.0 mi
- Cades Cove Covered Picnic Shelter: 23.1 mi
- Sam Houston Statue: 7.8 mi
- Pat Summitt Statue: 11.3 mi
- Torchbearer Statue: 11.4 mi
- Alex Haley Statue: 13.1 mi
- Wheat: 18.4 mi
- Calderwood: 23.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.6 miles of Sheep Pen Bluff. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Look Rock | SSE 153° | 810.463 m | 15.7 mi |
| Ellis Butt | SE 141° | 738 m | 15.5 mi |
| Mount Nebo | ESE 119° | 600 m | 15.3 mi |
| Hurricane Mountain | SE 131° | 592 m | 17.0 mi |
| Smith Knob | ESE 117° | 538 m | 17.5 mi |
| Miller Cove Mountain | ESE 114° | 528 m | 17.6 mi |
| Little Mountain | SE 133° | 443 m | 13.8 mi |
| Clark Mountain | ENE 75° | 423 m | 17.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:15 | 19:48 |
| June solstice | 06:21 | 20:19 | 20:57 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 19:01 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 07:43 | 16:47 | 17:27 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 43 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 79 | 78 | 72 | 60 | 49 | 42 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 4.2 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Knoxville AP, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356775056
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