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Enterprise South Nature Park

Enterprise South Nature Park from directly overhead

Enterprise South Nature Park is a nature reserve in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 307 m. Buck Knob stands 625 m to the north-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Picnic Area #2, a picnic site 0.6 miles away. Lookout Mountain Parkway passes 12 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates35.09257, -85.11665

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Redoubt Soccer Association: 2.5 mi
  • The Summit of Softball Complex: 2.7 mi
  • Veteran's Park: 3.5 mi
  • Cambridge Square: 3.5 mi
  • Booker T Washington State Park: 3.6 mi
Historic sites
  • Veteran's Park Fighterjet: 3.4 mi
  • Veteran's Park Tank: 3.4 mi
  • Veteran's Park Helicopter: 3.4 mi
  • Brotherton Mill: 4.2 mi
  • Dollhouse: 4.7 mi
Peaks
Attractions: 37
  • Brainard Optimist Drag Strip: 9.4 mi
  • Orchard Knob Reservation: 9.6 mi
  • Central of Georgia 349: 10.4 mi
  • Freedom Church: 10.7 mi
  • Balloon Ride: 10.8 mi
Cliffs: 30
Waterfalls: 23
  • Falling Water Falls 110: 11.5 mi
  • Clear Branch Falls 40: 11.8 mi
  • Power Line Falls 140: 11.9 mi
  • Hogskin Branch: 12.5 mi
  • Stripmine Falls: 13.1 mi
Museums: 20
Artworks: 15
Nature reserves: 10
Gardens: 10
  • Garden of Prayer: 4.7 mi
  • Jo Lawrence Memorial Garden: 7.7 mi
  • rain garden: 10.9 mi
  • Blue Cross Garden: 11.7 mi
  • Blue Cross Orchard Garden: 11.7 mi
Springs: 5
  • Burnt Cabin Springhouse: 14.0 mi
  • Straight Spring: 15.2 mi
  • Obar Spring: 17.0 mi
  • Crawfish Spring: 18.3 mi
  • Taylor Spring: 24.1 mi
Picnic sites: 4
  • Picnic Area #2: 0.6 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 5.4 mi
  • Picnic Area: 11.2 mi
  • Picnic Pavilion: 13.6 mi
Beaches: 4
Rest areas: 1
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridge: 16.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.9 miles of Enterprise South Nature Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buck KnobNNW 335°625 m20.3 mi
Suck Creek MountainWNW 289°624.84 m18.9 mi
Round KnobWNW 287°601 m14.8 mi
Buck KnobNW 305°595 m14.5 mi
Elder MountainW 273°569 m15.8 mi
Raccoon MountainWSW 259°563 m15.8 mi
The HellicanNW 312°562 m14.3 mi
The HorseshoeNW 308°557 m16.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4519:1919:52
June solstice06:2720:2120:59
September equinox07:2919:0519:39
December solstice07:4616:5417:33

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424653627077818074635144
Precip in5.05.05.34.93.94.25.13.74.23.64.85.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chattanooga AP, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Little Brown Jugs51 obs
  • Christmas fern48 obs
  • Red Buckeye39 obs
  • striped wintergreen38 obs
  • Northern Cardinal35 obs
  • crane-fly orchid34 obs
  • Central Ratsnake34 obs
  • Pear-shaped Puffball32 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/124100073

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