Big Eagle Recreation Area
Big Eagle Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 115 m. The Mound stands 215 m to the east, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Paris Landing, a park 1.5 miles away. Woodlands Trace passes 12 miles off. 94 named places lie within 25 miles, 23 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 115 m
How to reach it
- 12.4 mi off the Woodlands Trace, National
- 24.5 mi off the US 68 Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Bison Range Overlook · 17 mi
94 named places within 25 miles
- Paris Landing: 1.5 mi
- Paris Landing: 1.9 mi
- Paris Landing: 2.0 mi
- Paris Landing: 2.0 mi
- Paris Landing: 2.2 mi
- Owens Hill: 3.3 mi
- Mulberry Hill: 7.1 mi
- Nero Hill: 7.3 mi
- Bomar Hill: 9.2 mi
- Devil's Pulpit: 10.5 mi
- Bullard Point: 11.9 mi
- Pine Bluff: 13.5 mi
- Douglas Bluff: 15.2 mi
- Copperas Bluff: 15.5 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 17.2 mi
- Confederate War Memorial: 14.3 mi
- Cannon Monument: 15.2 mi
- Great Western Iron Furnace: 17.1 mi
- Confederate Monument: 17.3 mi
- Bear Spring Iron Furnace: 20.1 mi
- Eiffel Tower: 14.1 mi
- WTPR Fish: 14.5 mi
- Great West Iron Furnace: 17.1 mi
- Homeplace 1850s Working Farm at Land Between The Lakes: 18.1 mi
- Caboose: 22.7 mi
- Bison Range Picnic Area: 17.5 mi
- Cedar Pond Picnic Area: 18.8 mi
- Colson Overlook Picnic Area: 22.1 mi
- Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge: 6.1 mi
- Beechy Creek WMA: 10.0 mi
- Paris Henry County Heritage Center: 14.4 mi
- Wrather West Kentucky Museum: 18.1 mi
- Model Spring aka Great Western Spring: 17.1 mi
- Murray, Kentucky: 17.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Big Eagle Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mound | E 96° | 215 m | 16.3 mi |
| Durham Hill | SE 131° | 206 m | 22.1 mi |
| Cooley Hill | ESE 122° | 203 m | 18.4 mi |
| Ivy Hill | SE 133° | 202 m | 24.4 mi |
| Pilot Knob | SSE 162° | 200 m | 23.8 mi |
| Pulley Hill | E 88° | 197 m | 14.5 mi |
| Redbank Hill | ESE 112° | 196 m | 12.5 mi |
| High Place | SSE 154° | 194 m | 16.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:30 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:36 | 20:14 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:17 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:01 | 16:01 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 38 | 42 | 50 | 59 | 68 | 76 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 41 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 5.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — BIG Sandy, 13 mi away.
- Fowler's Toad11 obs
- American sweetgum7 obs
- Bald Eagle5 obs
- Pond Slider5 obs
- Common Box Turtle5 obs
- Cope's Gray Tree Frog5 obs
- Bufflehead4 obs
- Red-headed Woodpecker4 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/356856156
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