Cherokee Purchase Unit
Cherokee Purchase Unit is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 494 m. Rich Knob stands 1,295 m to the east-southeast, 6.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Grandfather Knob, a peak 1.9 miles away. Mount Rogers Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 494 m
How to reach it
- 16.6 mi off the Mount Rogers Scenic Byway
- 27.2 mi off the Mission Crossing
- 25.2 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail - VA
- 27.0 mi off the Trail of the Lonesome Pine / Daniel Boone Heritage Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Grandfather Knob: 1.9 mi
- Little Oak Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Observation Knob: 2.4 mi
- Big Oak Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Mock Knob: 3.7 mi
- Observation Park: 2.5 mi
- Cherokee Wildlife Management Area: 3.2 mi
- Holston View Park: 4.2 mi
- Kettlefoot Wildlife Management Area: 5.5 mi
- Defriece Park: 5.6 mi
- gross/morrel homestead: 3.4 mi
- Memorial Tower: 5.0 mi
- Veterans War Memorial: 6.6 mi
- Cobra: 6.6 mi
- Nick Grindstaff monument: 9.0 mi
- Bee Cliff: 14.4 mi
- Backbone Rock: 14.6 mi
- Cardens Bluff: 15.9 mi
- Christy Cliffs: 18.1 mi
- Moody Cliff: 18.2 mi
- Blue Hole Falls: 8.4 mi
- Abrams Falls: 13.2 mi
- Whitetop Laurel Falls: 18.9 mi
- Laurel Falls: 19.8 mi
- Gentry Creek Falls: 20.5 mi
- Bristol Caverns: 2.6 mi
- Bristol Thunder Valley Dragway: 10.1 mi
- Appalachian Caverns: 14.0 mi
- Wautauga Dam: 16.2 mi
- Virginia Creeper Trail Visitor Ctr: 16.6 mi
- Birthplace of Country Music Museum: 6.7 mi
- William King Museum: 11.8 mi
- Historical Society of Washington County: 11.8 mi
- Fields Penn 1860 House Museum: 12.0 mi
- Welcome Center and Museum: 16.1 mi
- Heartwood: 10.6 mi
- Newman Basket Company: 16.8 mi
- Junaluska: 23.4 mi
- Courthouse Common Soldier, 1914: 23.9 mi
- Potters Truck Stop: 14.2 mi
- Trials Playground: 14.8 mi
- John Douglas Wayside: 17.2 mi
- Shook Branch Picnic Ground: 17.6 mi
- Boiling Spring: 19.4 mi
- Hampton Spring: 19.5 mi
- Cave Spring: 19.6 mi
- Brig Spring: 20.5 mi
- Hidden Valley Wildlife Management Area: 20.2 mi
- Jacob's Nature Park at Sinking Creek: 21.6 mi
- The Channels Natural Area Preserve: 22.5 mi
- Clinch Mountain WMA: 24.0 mi
- Virginia Welcome Center: 9.6 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 9.9 mi
- Dr. Catherine Smith Garden: 10.8 mi
- ETSU Community Garden: 23.8 mi
- Shook Branch Swimming Area: 17.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.8 miles of Cherokee Purchase Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rich Knob | ESE 122° | 1,295 m | 6.0 mi |
| Grindstone Knob | ESE 109° | 1,282 m | 11.1 mi |
| Holston Mountain | S 181° | 1,264 m | 6.7 mi |
| Holston High Knob | S 181° | 1,261 m | 6.7 mi |
| Locust Knob | ESE 119° | 1,223 m | 6.1 mi |
| McQueen Knob | E 82° | 1,177 m | 8.6 mi |
| Doe Mountain | SE 127° | 1,163 m | 14.5 mi |
| Harp Mountain | ENE 77° | 1,152 m | 10.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:33 | 19:06 | 19:40 |
| June solstice | 06:11 | 20:12 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:17 | 18:53 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:37 | 17:17 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 38 | 45 | 54 | 63 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 67 | 56 | 45 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Abingdon 3S, 10 mi away.
- American Kestrel42 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk32 obs
- Red-headed Woodpecker21 obs
- Eastern Meadowlark15 obs
- Eastern Bluebird15 obs
- Bald Eagle14 obs
- Barn Swallow9 obs
- Eastern Kingbird7 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/356888170
Day trips start here
- Bristol · 7 mi
- Elizabethton · 18 mi
- Johnson City · 23 mi
- Kingsport · 26 mi
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