Baxter Gardens
Marked private. Do not count on getting in.
Baxter Gardens is a garden in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 415 m. Donehew Head stands 643 m to the northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Fountain City Recreation Complex, a park 0.5 miles away. Norris Freeway passes 1.8 miles off.
How to reach it
- 1.8 mi off the Norris Freeway, National
- 23.4 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Norris Dam Overlook · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Fountain City Recreation Complex: 0.5 mi
- Halls Community Park: 1.5 mi
- Beverly Park: 1.5 mi
- Fountain City Park: 1.5 mi
- Halls Greenway Park: 1.8 mi
- Brushy Knob: 4.4 mi
- Mabrys Hill: 5.9 mi
- Mitchell Knob: 6.0 mi
- Temperance Hill: 6.1 mi
- Summit Hill: 6.2 mi
- Josie Fine Memorial: 3.0 mi
- St. Mary's Hospital: 4.5 mi
- Christian-Newsom Memorial: 4.6 mi
- Tennessee Monument: 5.6 mi
- Rule High School: 6.0 mi
- The Muse Knoxville: 4.5 mi
- The Muse Knoxville: 4.5 mi
- Winstead Mansion: 5.8 mi
- Beck Cultural Exchange Center: 5.9 mi
- Mabry-Hazen House: 5.9 mi
- Longmire Bluff: 6.4 mi
- Paint Rock Bluff: 9.5 mi
- Cherokee Bluffs: 9.5 mi
- Wright Bluff: 12.9 mi
- Kitts Point: 13.1 mi
- Knox Selfie Lab: 6.1 mi
- Ramsey House Plantation: 8.2 mi
- Aspire: 11.7 mi
- Norris Dam Visitor Center: 15.0 mi
- Maryville Greenbelt Amphitheater: 21.1 mi
- Ijams Nature Center: 7.5 mi
- Grayson Subaru Nature Preserve: 8.0 mi
- Baker Creek Preserve: 8.3 mi
- Marie Myers Park: 8.4 mi
- William Hastie Natural Area: 8.9 mi
- Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum: 5.6 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 6.1 mi
- Grow Lab: 7.2 mi
- Cresent Bend Garden: 7.5 mi
- Beall Family Rose Garden: 7.8 mi
- Alex Haley Statue: 6.0 mi
- Torchbearer Statue: 7.2 mi
- Pat Summitt Statue: 7.3 mi
- Sam Houston Statue: 21.3 mi
- Dolly Parton: 23.7 mi
- Love's Creek Spring: 4.1 mi
- Strong rock spring: 11.9 mi
- Herron Spring: 18.0 mi
- Ebb and Flow Spring: 24.6 mi
- Hardin Spring: 24.6 mi
- Boyd Hollow Falls: 10.4 mi
- Loyston: 14.5 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 19.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.0 miles of Baxter Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donehew Head | NE 49° | 643 m | 16.2 mi |
| House Mountain | ENE 66° | 629 m | 9.3 mi |
| Rhetts View | NE 56° | 500 m | 14.3 mi |
| Brushy Knob | N 356° | 471 m | 4.4 mi |
| Mitchell Knob | N 353° | 463 m | 6.0 mi |
| High Point | NW 324° | 439 m | 14.3 mi |
| Militia Hill | NW 308° | 434 m | 18.0 mi |
| Roderick Mountain | E 93° | 432 m | 16.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:40 | 19:14 | 19:48 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:18 | 20:57 |
| September equinox | 07:24 | 19:00 | 19:34 |
| December solstice | 07:43 | 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 | 37 | 41 | 49 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 77 | 76 | 71 | 59 | 48 | 40 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 5.8 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 5.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Knoxville EXP STN, 11 mi away.
- lyreleaf sage17 obs
- Cope's Gray Tree Frog15 obs
- American Robin14 obs
- DeKay's Brownsnake13 obs
- Amur honeysuckle13 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle12 obs
- American tuliptree12 obs
- Eastern Towhee11 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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