40 Acres Museum
40 Acres Museum is a museum in Alabama, at a modelled elevation of 238 m. Chandler Mountain stands 452 m to the east-southeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Polk Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Lookout Mountain Parkway passes 26 miles off.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 26.3 mi off the Lookout Mountain Parkway
- 29.4 mi off the Alabama's Stagecoach Route Through Leeds
Named places within 25 miles
- Polk Park: 0.4 mi
- Woodland Scout Park: 1.5 mi
- Pop Up Park: 1.6 mi
- Palisades Park: 1.7 mi
- Oneonta Recreation Park: 2.0 mi
- Iron Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Nevins Mountain: 3.7 mi
- Cornelius Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Tater Knob: 4.7 mi
- Browns Mountain: 4.9 mi
- The Gamble School: 0.6 mi
- Blount County A County Older Than The State: 1.6 mi
- Flame of Freedom: 1.6 mi
- Blount County Veterans Memorial: 1.6 mi
- The Old Courthouse Bell: 1.6 mi
- Scirum Bluff: 7.7 mi
- Pine Bluff: 9.2 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 11.4 mi
- Cedar Cliff: 15.3 mi
- Buzzard Roost: 16.4 mi
- Angel Wings: 1.6 mi
- Welcome To Oneonta: 1.6 mi
- Saint Joseph: 13.4 mi
- Saint Francis of Assisi: 13.4 mi
- Pietà: 13.6 mi
- Blount County Memorial Museum & Historical Society: 1.6 mi
- Ashville Museum & Archives: 15.8 mi
- John W. Inzer Museum: 15.8 mi
- Mustang Museum of America: 20.9 mi
- OBA Artwalk: 1.6 mi
- Horse Pens 40: 10.4 mi
- Baileyton Good Time DragStrip: 20.6 mi
- Ave Maria Grotto: 24.0 mi
- Cornelius Falls: 7.2 mi
- Mardis Mills Falls: 7.4 mi
- Powell Falls: 7.8 mi
- Saint Clair County Rest Area (Northbound): 12.8 mi
- Saint Clair County Rest Area (Southbound): 13.6 mi
- Cullman County Rest Area: 23.2 mi
- Laylas’s Garden: 1.7 mi
- Stations Of The Holy Eucharsit Garden: 13.5 mi
- Turkey Creek Nature Preserve: 21.9 mi
- Turkey Creek Nature Preserve: 22.3 mi
- Nectar Covered Bridge: 8.5 mi
- Big Spring: 14.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.7 miles of 40 Acres Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chandler Mountain | ESE 109° | 452 m | 10.8 mi |
| Wornock Mountain | W 279° | 436 m | 12.7 mi |
| Butler Mountain | SSW 204° | 430 m | 18.9 mi |
| Aurora Mountain | NE 54° | 425 m | 20.9 mi |
| Foster Mountain | SSW 204° | 421 m | 19.4 mi |
| Cahaba Mountain | S 190° | 419 m | 15.6 mi |
| Saint Clair Mountain | S 186° | 414 m | 10.9 mi |
| Black Oak Mountain | SSW 204° | 413 m | 20.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:51 | 18:25 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:24 | 20:01 |
| September equinox | 06:35 | 18:11 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 06:48 | 16:03 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 43 | 46 | 54 | 62 | 70 | 77 | 81 | 80 | 74 | 63 | 53 | 45 |
| Precip in | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.1 | 5.6 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 5.0 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 5.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oneonta, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/1272631216
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