Kitchen Garden
Kitchen Garden is a garden in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 253 m. Little Double stands 851 m to the southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Adaptive and Enabling Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Norris Freeway passes 9.5 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- UT School of Agriculture.
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 9.5 mi off the Norris Freeway, National
- 28.4 mi off the Newfound Gap Road Byway, National
- 28.9 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Norris Dam Overlook · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cherokee Bluff Community Gardens: 0.4 mi
- Fraternity Park: 0.4 mi
- Mountcastle Park: 0.7 mi
- Scottish Pike River Park: 0.8 mi
- Circle Park: 0.8 mi
- Summit Hill: 1.8 mi
- Barber Hill: 1.8 mi
- Flint Hill: 2.1 mi
- Temperance Hill: 2.2 mi
- Richmond Hill: 2.4 mi
- Knox Selfie Lab: 1.9 mi
- Ramsey House Plantation: 6.6 mi
- Maryville Greenbelt Amphitheater: 13.3 mi
- Aspire: 14.6 mi
- Nick's MTB Trails: 15.0 mi
- Terra: 1.0 mi
- 79th New York Infantry Momument: 1.1 mi
- Knoxville Historic Train: 1.4 mi
- East Tennessee Veterans Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Miller's Building Arch: 1.8 mi
- McClung Museum: 0.8 mi
- Knoxville Museum of Art: 1.4 mi
- Blount Mansion: 1.7 mi
- East Tennessee History Center: 1.8 mi
- Women's Basketball Hall of Fame: 2.0 mi
- Cherokee Bluffs: 2.0 mi
- Wright Bluff: 5.6 mi
- Paint Rock Bluff: 7.6 mi
- Keller Bluff: 9.8 mi
- Sheep Pen Bluff: 10.5 mi
- Adaptive and Enabling Garden: 0.0 mi
- Beall Family Rose Garden: 0.0 mi
- University of Tennessee Gardens: 0.0 mi
- Grow Lab: 0.6 mi
- Cresent Bend Garden: 0.7 mi
- Baker Creek Preserve: 2.8 mi
- Marie Myers Park: 3.4 mi
- William Hastie Natural Area: 3.5 mi
- Ijams Nature Center: 4.0 mi
- Grayson Subaru Nature Preserve: 4.1 mi
- Pat Summitt Statue: 0.8 mi
- Torchbearer Statue: 0.8 mi
- Alex Haley Statue: 2.6 mi
- Sam Houston Statue: 13.5 mi
- Veterans Statue: 21.5 mi
- Boyd Hollow Falls: 5.5 mi
- Cane Creek Twin Falls: 23.1 mi
- Abrams Falls: 23.4 mi
- Meadow Branch Cascade: 23.8 mi
- White Oak Sinks Falls: 23.9 mi
- Love's Creek Spring: 6.9 mi
- Herron Spring: 13.4 mi
- Strong rock spring: 13.6 mi
- Ebb and Flow Spring: 19.1 mi
- Hardin Spring: 19.2 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 13.8 mi
- Look Rock Picnic Area: 21.3 mi
- Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.1 miles of Kitchen Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Double | SE 127° | 851 m | 17.0 mi |
| Bearwallow Mountain | SE 136° | 720 m | 16.6 mi |
| Pleasant View | SE 136° | 712 m | 16.5 mi |
| House Mountain | NE 39° | 629 m | 15.0 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | ESE 119° | 624 m | 16.8 mi |
| Big Pine Mountain | SE 124° | 604 m | 16.1 mi |
| Mount Nebo | SSE 158° | 600 m | 16.0 mi |
| Little Pine Mountain | ESE 122° | 566 m | 16.4 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 | 20:56 |
| 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, 3 mi away.
- American Robin851 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel544 obs
- Northern Mockingbird516 obs
- Northern Cardinal312 obs
- House Sparrow219 obs
- Mourning Dove212 obs
- Canada Goose155 obs
- white clover151 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/268219226
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