Tech Native Plant Garden
Tech Native Plant Garden is a garden in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 341 m. Hampton Mountain stands 616 m to the east, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is North Patio, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Cumberland Historic Byway passes 18 miles off.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 18.0 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Ward Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Pilot Knob: 3.2 mi
- Buck Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Algood Mountain: 4.5 mi
- Green Mountain: 4.7 mi
- North Patio: 0.0 mi
- South Patio: 0.1 mi
- TTU Fine Arts Outdoor Patio: 0.1 mi
- President's Yard: 0.1 mi
- Lab Science Commons Yard: 0.2 mi
- City Lake Falls: 4.4 mi
- Cummins Falls: 6.2 mi
- Charlotte Falls: 7.9 mi
- Savannah Falls: 8.0 mi
- Waterloo Falls: 9.0 mi
- Harris Bluff: 9.4 mi
- Dave Bluff: 9.4 mi
- Hardscrabble Bluff: 9.5 mi
- Pendleton Bluff: 9.6 mi
- Rocky Bar: 15.3 mi
- Cookeville Childrens Museum: 0.7 mi
- Depot Museum: 0.9 mi
- Cookeville History Museum: 0.9 mi
- Soard Properties Museum: 1.2 mi
- Baxter Visitor Center and Museum: 7.8 mi
- TTU Eagle Statue: 0.2 mi
- Standing Stone State Park: 17.5 mi
- Canoe the Caney - Satellite Location: 18.1 mi
- Sunset Rock: 18.4 mi
- CRMC Basin Garden: 0.5 mi
- The Pink Elephant: 2.0 mi
- Tennessee Visitor Center: 17.2 mi
- Pinhook: 21.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.7 miles of Tech Native Plant Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampton Mountain | E 89° | 616 m | 14.6 mi |
| Tyler Mountain | E 84° | 597 m | 14.9 mi |
| Blaylock Mountain | E 83° | 593 m | 9.0 mi |
| Verble Knobs | ESE 103° | 587 m | 16.6 mi |
| Copeland Mountain | E 83° | 585 m | 14.7 mi |
| Harris Mountain | ENE 65° | 582 m | 14.0 mi |
| Gunter Mountain | E 88° | 580 m | 16.8 mi |
| Negro Mountain | E 82° | 577 m | 18.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:20 | 18:54 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:25 | 20:03 |
| September equinox | 06:31 | 18:07 | 18:41 |
| December solstice | 06:50 | 15:52 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
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 | 57 | 65 | 73 | 77 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 6.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cookeville, 5 mi away.
- Northern Zigzag Salamander26 obs
- Eastern Carpenter Bee23 obs
- Northern Cardinal22 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle22 obs
- Common Snapping Turtle20 obs
- purple passionflower20 obs
- Cope's Gray Tree Frog20 obs
- DeKay's Brownsnake19 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/471968118
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