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Brown Park

Brown Park from directly overhead

Brown Park is a park in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 78 m. The nearest named place is Vance Avenue Park, a park 0.3 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 161 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates35.12995, -90.04144

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
  • Sojourner Truth Memorial Time Capsule: 0.7 mi
  • 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike Monument: 0.7 mi
  • Mary Church Terrell: 0.7 mi
  • Phi Beta Sigma Historical Marker: 0.7 mi
  • Church Park Historical Marker: 0.7 mi
Attractions
  • Gibson Guitar Factory Tour: 0.9 mi
  • Eddie Murphy Star Marker: 1.0 mi
  • Sidewalk of Stars at the Orpheum: 1.1 mi
  • Memphis Riverboats: 1.3 mi
  • Mississippi River Model Walk: 1.5 mi
Museums: 29
Beaches: 21
  • Desoto Woods FootPath: 13.1 mi
  • West Junction shore: 16.9 mi
  • West Snake Beach: 17.0 mi
  • West Potato Beach: 17.2 mi
  • West Houston shore beach: 17.2 mi
Artworks: 13
  • I Have Been to the Mountaintop: 0.9 mi
  • Upstander: 1.0 mi
  • Whirl: 1.2 mi
  • Elvis Presley: 1.5 mi
  • St. Jude Thaddeus: 1.6 mi
Gardens: 7
  • Clara Conway Memorial Gardens: 2.9 mi
  • Fisher Memorial Garden: 3.3 mi
  • Emeriti Grove: 5.9 mi
  • Meditation Garden: 5.9 mi
  • Dixon Gardens: 7.2 mi
Nature reserves: 7
Ghost towns: 1
Rest areas: 1
  • Tennessee Welcome Center: 6.5 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Memphis Propbuster's Field: 21.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0518:3919:12
June solstice05:4719:4120:18
September equinox06:4918:2518:59
December solstice07:0516:1416:53

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424654637280838276655345
Precip in4.14.55.75.95.34.04.83.43.04.04.75.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Memphis Intl AP, 6 mi away.

  • Northern Mockingbird48 obs
  • Gulf Fritillary37 obs
  • American Robin32 obs
  • Silver-spotted Skipper25 obs
  • Monarch24 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel22 obs
  • Fiery Skipper22 obs
  • Huron Skipper19 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/130774597

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