Anderson Road Public Use Area
Anderson Road Public Use Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 156 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the south, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Smith Springs Public Use Area, a park 1.3 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 297 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 156 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 296.9 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 21.7 mi off the Natchez Trace Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Smith Springs Public Use Area: 1.3 mi
- Smith Springs Public Use Area: 1.4 mi
- Hamilton Creek Metropolitan Park: 1.5 mi
- Nashville Shores Recreation Area: 2.3 mi
- Seven Points Public Use Area: 2.3 mi
- Bald Knob: 6.0 mi
- Todd Knob: 6.1 mi
- Fosters Hill: 8.3 mi
- Patterson Knob: 8.8 mi
- Sanford Knob: 8.8 mi
- Clover Bottom Mansion: 5.1 mi
- Veterans Memorial Wall: 6.3 mi
- Sewart Air Force Base: 8.2 mi
- Slave Cemetery: 8.8 mi
- Capt. Jeff Kuss USMC "Blue Angel" Memorial: 8.9 mi
- Lane Motor Museum: 7.9 mi
- Croft House: 8.4 mi
- Tennessee Agricultural Museum: 8.9 mi
- Tennessee Central Railway Museum: 9.3 mi
- Cooter's: 9.4 mi
- Helicopter Distature Statue: 6.0 mi
- Jesus Statue: 9.0 mi
- Wedgehill Market -Mixtape: Memories: 9.7 mi
- RONE: 10.0 mi
- #educationisnotacrime: 10.0 mi
- Visitor Center: 3.2 mi
- Nashville Shores Water Park: 3.3 mi
- Wave Country: 7.4 mi
- The Hermitage: 7.4 mi
- Shelby Bottoms Nature Center: 8.1 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 4.4 mi
- Toll Booth Preserve: 5.3 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 1: 6.2 mi
- Lytle Bend Park: 6.3 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 6.5 mi
- Cane Ridge Community Garden: 7.8 mi
- Woodbine Community Garden: 8.3 mi
- Sunken Garden: 12.5 mi
- Dixon L Merritt Native Plant Garden: 15.3 mi
- Cheekwood: 15.6 mi
- Anderson Bluff: 12.6 mi
- McCord Bluff: 18.1 mi
- Buzzard Bluff: 18.6 mi
- Wray Bluff: 18.6 mi
- Figuers Bluff: 19.4 mi
- Seven Points Picnic Area: 2.2 mi
- East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 12.1 mi
- Creekside Crossing: 12.3 mi
- Hendersonville Greenway Trail Head: 15.1 mi
- Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 15.3 mi
- Swimming Area: 4.8 mi
- Stahlman Waterfront: 15.9 mi
- Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 7.9 mi
- West Meade Waterfall: 17.6 mi
- Spring Creek: 20.0 mi
- Maney Spring: 21.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.3 miles of Anderson Road Public Use Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sumner Knob | S 185° | 370 m | 15.8 mi |
| Buteomont | SSW 203° | 368.8 m | 14.9 mi |
| Jenkins Hill | SSW 199° | 367 m | 13.9 mi |
| Polk Hill | SSW 193° | 366 m | 13.8 mi |
| Morton Knob | SSW 197° | 365 m | 13.6 mi |
| Scales Mountain | S 176° | 362 m | 18.8 mi |
| Pleasant Hill Knob | SSW 210° | 361 m | 14.1 mi |
| Pilot Knob | E 89° | 357 m | 17.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:51 | 18:25 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 19:29 | 20:07 |
| September equinox | 06:35 | 18:11 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 06:54 | 15:56 | 16:36 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 42 | 50 | 60 | 68 | 77 | 80 | 79 | 73 | 61 | 50 | 42 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nashville Berry FLD, 5 mi away.
- Common Loon22 obs
- Mallard21 obs
- Widow's-cross21 obs
- Eastern Fence Lizard18 obs
- eastern redbud17 obs
- trifoliate orange17 obs
- Great Blue Heron15 obs
- Chinese bushclover14 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/1284320877
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