Carl Cowan Park
Carl Cowan Park is a park in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 249 m. Look Rock stands 810 m to the south-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Admiral Farragut Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Norris Freeway passes 18 miles off.
How to reach it
- 18.3 mi off the Norris Freeway, National
- 28.4 mi off the Indian Lakes Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Norris Dam Overlook · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Admiral Farragut Park: 0.4 mi
- Rogers Island Rd Park: 1.5 mi
- Concord Point Park: 1.7 mi
- Keller Bend Park: 2.6 mi
- Benington Farrington Recreation Area: 3.0 mi
- Rocky Hill: 1.5 mi
- Mountain Hill: 1.5 mi
- Logan Hill: 3.7 mi
- Red Hill: 7.8 mi
- Barber Hill: 9.3 mi
- Pistol Creek Dam and Mill Race: 9.7 mi
- Tucker Springs Historical Marker: 10.1 mi
- Lenoir Cotton Mill: 10.3 mi
- Rule High School: 11.6 mi
- Terra: 11.8 mi
- Cades Cove Preservation Association & Cades Cove Museum: 10.3 mi
- Lenoir City Museum & Cotton: 10.4 mi
- McClung Museum: 11.7 mi
- Knoxville Museum of Art: 12.2 mi
- East Tennessee History Center: 12.6 mi
- Keller Bluff: 1.7 mi
- Sheep Pen Bluff: 1.9 mi
- Wright Bluff: 5.6 mi
- Leeper Bluff: 7.7 mi
- Cherokee Bluffs: 9.0 mi
- Cresent Bend Garden: 10.7 mi
- University of Tennessee Gardens: 10.9 mi
- Beall Family Rose Garden: 10.9 mi
- Kitchen Garden: 10.9 mi
- Adaptive and Enabling Garden: 10.9 mi
- Herron Spring: 4.8 mi
- Ebb and Flow Spring: 8.3 mi
- Hardin Spring: 8.4 mi
- Poplar Spring: 12.1 mi
- Love's Creek Spring: 17.7 mi
- Maryville Greenbelt Amphitheater: 9.8 mi
- Knox Selfie Lab: 12.7 mi
- Caboose: 15.5 mi
- Greenback Castle: 16.4 mi
- Aspire: 16.6 mi
- Baker Creek Preserve: 13.2 mi
- William Hastie Natural Area: 13.5 mi
- Marie Myers Park: 13.7 mi
- Grayson Subaru Nature Preserve: 14.6 mi
- Ijams Nature Center: 14.7 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 3.5 mi
- Look Rock Picnic Area: 17.2 mi
- Cades Cove Picnic Area: 24.9 mi
- Cades Cove Covered Picnic Shelter: 25.0 mi
- Sam Houston Statue: 9.7 mi
- Pat Summitt Statue: 11.7 mi
- Torchbearer Statue: 11.8 mi
- Alex Haley Statue: 13.5 mi
- Boyd Hollow Falls: 14.9 mi
- Abrams Falls: 20.7 mi
- Crooked Arm Cascades: 24.4 mi
- White Oak Sinks Falls: 24.7 mi
- Wheat: 16.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.9 miles of Carl Cowan Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Look Rock | SSE 150° | 810.463 m | 17.4 mi |
| Ellis Butt | SE 140° | 738 m | 17.3 mi |
| Mount Nebo | ESE 120° | 600 m | 17.2 mi |
| Hurricane Mountain | SE 131° | 592 m | 18.9 mi |
| Little Mountain | SE 133° | 443 m | 15.7 mi |
| Clark Mountain | E 79° | 423 m | 18.7 mi |
| Case Mountain | E 80° | 422 m | 18.4 mi |
| Black Sulphur Knobs | SSE 148° | 416 m | 14.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:15 | 19:48 |
| June solstice | 06:21 | 20:19 | 20:57 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 19:01 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 07:44 | 16:47 | 17:27 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 43 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 79 | 78 | 72 | 60 | 49 | 42 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 4.2 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Knoxville AP, 7 mi away.
- American Robin27 obs
- Northern Cardinal20 obs
- Northern Mockingbird18 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel15 obs
- Virginia creeper15 obs
- House Finch15 obs
- mayapple14 obs
- Cope's Gray Tree Frog13 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/600400919
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