Blowing Spring Park
Blowing Spring Park is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 195 m. Ross Mountain stands 715 m to the north, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Pryor Cave Spring, a spring 2.3 miles away. Sequatchie Valley Scenic Byway passes 1.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 195 m
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the Sequatchie Valley Scenic Byway, National
- 15.7 mi off the Lookout Mountain Parkway
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Rock · 16 mi
- Ropers Rock · 16 mi
- Point Park Tour Stop #4 - Western Overlook & Wauhatchie · 16 mi
- Umbrella Rock · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Jasper City Park: 3.1 mi
- Marion County Park: 6.4 mi
- Crossroads Park: 6.8 mi
- Kimball Park: 7.0 mi
- Kimball Park: 7.1 mi
- Little Cedar Mountain: 4.8 mi
- Cedar Mountain: 5.3 mi
- Aetna Mountain: 6.5 mi
- Little Cedar Mountain: 7.1 mi
- Jackson Point: 9.3 mi
- Moonshine Still: 8.9 mi
- Judge M.M. Allison: 10.1 mi
- Battle of Wauhatchie Site (New York Monument): 14.5 mi
- Urban Renewal: 15.9 mi
- Industrial Heritage: 15.9 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 4.9 mi
- Denny Cove Falls: 5.0 mi
- Mini Denny Cove Falls: 5.8 mi
- Horsehair Falls 80: 6.3 mi
- Foster Falls 60: 6.3 mi
- Corn Maze: 2.5 mi
- Danny Cove: 6.3 mi
- South Pittsburg Municipal Hospital: 10.7 mi
- The Suck: 11.5 mi
- Russell Cave National Monument: 15.7 mi
- Fullerton Bluff: 4.7 mi
- Grays Bluff: 7.5 mi
- Tennessee Wall: 11.3 mi
- Seward Point: 11.4 mi
- Tennessee Wall: 11.4 mi
- Pryor Cave Spring: 2.3 mi
- Obar Spring: 12.5 mi
- Burnt Cabin Springhouse: 13.2 mi
- Wildcat Spring: 13.3 mi
- Cave Spring: 14.4 mi
- Lodge Museum of Cast Iron: 9.7 mi
- Bridgeport Depot Museum: 13.6 mi
- Ochs Memorial Museum: 16.0 mi
- Battles of Chattanooga Museum: 16.1 mi
- Creative Discovery Museum: 16.6 mi
- Battle Creek Public Hunting Area: 8.4 mi
- North Chick Corridor: 15.9 mi
- Audubon Society Wildlife Refuge: 16.9 mi
- Cartter Patten Easement: 18.6 mi
- North Chickamauga Creek Wildlife Management Area - Williams Unit: 20.8 mi
- Resurgence I: 15.9 mi
- Nutrition Sculpture: 16.0 mi
- Resurgence II: 16.0 mi
- Ruth Holmberg Memorial: 16.1 mi
- Woodland Tiger: 16.6 mi
- Wild Ones Pollinator Garden: 15.0 mi
- Sensory Garden: 15.1 mi
- rain garden: 16.2 mi
- Blue Cross Garden: 16.3 mi
- Blue Cross Orchard Garden: 16.3 mi
- Foster Falls Picnic Area: 6.3 mi
- Picnic Area: 16.5 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 19.7 mi
- Picnic and Grill sites: 20.7 mi
- Picnic Grove: 22.1 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 6.8 mi
- Saddleback Platform: 17.2 mi
- Grundy Count Rest Area - East Bound: 17.2 mi
- Grundy Count Rest Area - West Bound: 17.4 mi
- Natural Bridge: 10.5 mi
- Sewanee Natural Bridge: 18.7 mi
- Chickamauga Dam Beach: 20.9 mi
- Booker T. Washington Park Beach: 23.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.2 miles of Blowing Spring Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ross Mountain | N 0° | 715 m | 16.0 mi |
| Bunker Hill | NNE 16° | 703 m | 17.2 mi |
| Flat Mountain | NNE 19° | 684 m | 21.7 mi |
| Stocker Hill | N 351° | 654 m | 16.0 mi |
| Round Top | SSE 151° | 647 m | 22.2 mi |
| Clouse Hill | NW 317° | 634 m | 16.6 mi |
| West Ramsey | NW 317° | 627 m | 14.6 mi |
| Suck Creek Mountain | ENE 65° | 624.84 m | 10.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:21 | 18:54 |
| June solstice | 05:29 | 19:23 | 20:01 |
| September equinox | 06:31 | 18:07 | 18:41 |
| December solstice | 06:48 | 15:56 | 16:35 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 44 | 52 | 60 | 67 | 75 | 78 | 78 | 72 | 61 | 51 | 43 |
| Precip in | 5.8 | 5.4 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 5.2 | 6.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Whitwell-sequatchie VLY, 14 mi away.
- American persimmon11 obs
- common selfheal9 obs
- Carolina buckthorn9 obs
- American burnweed8 obs
- Cave Salamander7 obs
- American beautyberry6 obs
- lyreleaf sage6 obs
- wild comfrey6 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 way/1090898890
Day trips start here
- Chattanooga · 17 mi
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