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Buena Vista Park

Buena Vista Park from directly overhead

Buena Vista Park is a park in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 123 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the south-southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Ted Rhodes Fields, a park 0.4 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 291 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates36.19201, -86.80743

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Ted Rhodes Fields: 0.4 mi
  • MetroCenter Levee Greenway: 0.5 mi
  • Metro Water Services 3rd Ave Park: 0.9 mi
  • Elizabeth Park: 0.9 mi
  • Elizabeth Park: 1.0 mi
Historic sites: 35
  • World War II Memorial: 1.7 mi
  • Centennial Memorial: 1.8 mi
  • Statehood Memorial (McNairy Spring): 1.9 mi
  • Alvin York: 2.2 mi
  • Andrew Jackson: 2.2 mi
Artworks: 20
Attractions: 18
Nature reserves: 15
Cliffs: 9
Gardens: 6
Picnic sites: 5
  • Creekside Crossing: 10.9 mi
  • Seven Points Picnic Area: 14.2 mi
  • Hendersonville Greenway Trail Head: 15.3 mi
  • Balthrop Park: 19.0 mi
  • East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 24.8 mi
Beaches: 2
Lighthouses: 1
  • Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 5.2 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • West Meade Waterfall: 9.0 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.7 miles of Buena Vista Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sumner KnobSSE 154°370 m23.9 mi
ButeomontSSE 163°368.8 m20.4 mi
Jenkins HillSSE 159°367 m20.3 mi
Polk HillSSE 156°366 m21.0 mi
Morton KnobSSE 157°365 m20.3 mi
Pleasant Hill KnobSSE 165°361 m18.7 mi
McMahan KnobSSE 167°355 m18.5 mi
Daddy KnobSSE 163°353 m21.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5218:2518:59
June solstice05:3119:3020:09
September equinox06:3618:1218:46
December solstice06:5515:5716:37

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F384250606875797872604941
Precip in4.74.65.44.85.34.34.33.74.23.83.84.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Shelby Bottoms Nature, 5 mi away.

  • Gulf Fritillary35 obs
  • Northern Mockingbird31 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee24 obs
  • Great Blue Heron23 obs
  • Amur honeysuckle23 obs
  • Common Green June Beetle20 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle19 obs
  • American Robin18 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/318565110

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