Blue Creek Recreation Area
Blue Creek Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 124 m. The Mound stands 215 m to the south-southeast, 9.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Barkley Wildlife Management Area, a park 2.2 miles away. Woodlands Trace passes 2.9 miles off. 94 named places lie within 25 miles, 22 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 124 m
How to reach it
- 2.9 mi off the Woodlands Trace, National
- 19.4 mi off the US 68 Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Bison Range Overlook · 10 mi
94 named places within 25 miles
- Barkley Wildlife Management Area: 2.2 mi
- Dryers Creek Recreational Area: 2.6 mi
- Day Use Area: 2.8 mi
- Bear Creek Waterfowl Management Unit: 3.1 mi
- Saline Creek Public Use Area: 5.7 mi
- Robinson Hill: 2.3 mi
- Hickman Creek Hill: 4.7 mi
- Vinegar Hill: 5.9 mi
- Pulley Hill: 7.1 mi
- Round Top: 7.7 mi
- Pine Bluff: 11.3 mi
- Bullard Point: 12.2 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 14.0 mi
- Douglas Bluff: 18.2 mi
- Express Bluff: 18.5 mi
- Cannon Monument: 2.8 mi
- Confederate War Memorial: 2.8 mi
- Bear Spring Iron Furnace: 7.2 mi
- Great Western Iron Furnace: 10.0 mi
- Confederate Monument: 23.3 mi
- Bison Range Picnic Area: 10.4 mi
- Cedar Pond Picnic Area: 12.8 mi
- Colson Overlook Picnic Area: 17.9 mi
- Jenny Ridge Picnic Area at Land Between The Lakes: 21.3 mi
- Great West Iron Furnace: 10.0 mi
- Homeplace 1850s Working Farm at Land Between The Lakes: 10.8 mi
- Hilltop Chimney: 22.0 mi
- Model Spring aka Great Western Spring: 10.0 mi
- Garnett Spring: 18.8 mi
- Beechy Creek WMA: 15.2 mi
- Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge: 19.6 mi
- Wickham Hall Pratt Museum: 24.1 mi
- Don F. Pratt Memorial Museum: 24.1 mi
- SRU Memorial Garden: 24.2 mi
- SRU Garden: 24.3 mi
- Golden Pond: 20.0 mi
- Murray, Kentucky: 24.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Blue Creek Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mound | SSE 163° | 215 m | 9.8 mi |
| Durham Hill | S 171° | 206 m | 22.3 mi |
| Cooley Hill | S 173° | 203 m | 17.4 mi |
| Ivy Hill | S 170° | 202 m | 24.7 mi |
| Pulley Hill | S 171° | 197 m | 7.1 mi |
| Redbank Hill | S 188° | 196 m | 12.3 mi |
| High Place | SSW 196° | 194 m | 22.8 mi |
| Nero Hill | SW 217° | 191 m | 10.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:29 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:35 | 20:14 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:16 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:00 | 16:00 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 41 | 49 | 59 | 67 | 75 | 78 | 78 | 71 | 59 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 6.0 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dover 1 W, 3 mi away.
- box elder8 obs
- Virginia creeper8 obs
- American sweetgum7 obs
- Monarch6 obs
- Japanese stiltgrass5 obs
- Northern Cricket Frog4 obs
- DeKay's Brownsnake4 obs
- black locust4 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/356889480
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