Bays Mountain Park
Bays Mountain Park is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 595 m. Chimneytop stands 945 m to the southwest, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Bays Mountain Park & Planetarium, a park 0.5 miles away. Trail of the Lonesome Pine / Daniel Boone Heritage Trail passes 6.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 595 m
How to reach it
- 6.3 mi off the Trail of the Lonesome Pine / Daniel Boone Heritage Trail
- 13.6 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail - VA
Overlooks nearby
- Purchase Ridge Overlook · 15 mi
- Lover's Leap Overlook · 15 mi
- Tunnel Floor Observation Deck · 15 mi
- Powell Mountain Overlook · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Bays Mountain Park & Planetarium: 0.5 mi
- Eastman Recreation Area: 0.5 mi
- Riverfront Park: 3.1 mi
- Domtar Park: 3.2 mi
- Allandale Mansion: 3.3 mi
- High Point: 0.9 mi
- Cherry Knobs: 1.1 mi
- Holston River Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Moore Hill: 3.7 mi
- Rocky Hill: 3.9 mi
- Battle of Kingsport: 2.8 mi
- Eagle Scout Dedication: 4.3 mi
- Dickson Elementary School: 5.7 mi
- Anderson Block House Monument: 8.7 mi
- Coach Harry Fry: 9.3 mi
- Kit Bluff: 2.8 mi
- Laurel Run Cliffs: 3.8 mi
- Skeleton Bluff: 6.7 mi
- Moody Bluff: 6.8 mi
- Dorn Bluff: 8.1 mi
- Car Museum: 4.5 mi
- Gray Fossil Site and Museum: 10.5 mi
- Gray Fossil Site and Museum Annex: 10.5 mi
- Jonesborough History Museum: 16.5 mi
- Chester Inn State Historic Site and Museum: 16.6 mi
- Kingsport Aquatic Center: 2.5 mi
- Appalachian Caverns: 16.2 mi
- Johnson City Sign: 19.4 mi
- Downtown Square Breezeway: 19.5 mi
- Bristol Thunder Valley Dragway: 19.9 mi
- Rest Area and Tennessee Welcome Center: 3.8 mi
- I-81 Rest Area - Greene County West: 14.1 mi
- I-81 Rest Area - Greene County East: 16.1 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 21.0 mi
- Virginia Welcome Center: 21.4 mi
- Junaluska: 17.8 mi
- ETSU Community Garden: 19.9 mi
- Jacob's Nature Park at Sinking Creek: 20.7 mi
- Abrams Falls: 22.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.2 miles of Bays Mountain Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chimneytop | SW 218° | 945 m | 8.8 mi |
| Chimneytop Mountain | SW 218° | 926 m | 8.8 mi |
| Big Knob | NNE 28° | 919 m | 12.2 mi |
| Fodderstack Mountain | SW 224° | 839 m | 12.0 mi |
| Stone Mountain | SW 228° | 789 m | 13.4 mi |
| Stony Lump | SW 229° | 766 m | 15.1 mi |
| Holston River Mountain | W 272° | 707 m | 1.7 mi |
| Miller Knob | NE 54° | 678 m | 15.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:13 | 20:14 | 20:53 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:39 | 16:39 | 17:19 |
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 | 40 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 73 | 77 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 47 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kingsport, 5 mi away.
- azure bluet52 obs
- Halberd-leaved violet48 obs
- striped wintergreen47 obs
- wild geranium46 obs
- American cancer-root46 obs
- Watershield46 obs
- trailing arbutus46 obs
- galax43 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356842873
Day trips start here
- Kingsport · 4 mi
- Johnson City · 20 mi
- Bristol · 24 mi
- Elizabethton · 24 mi
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