Cherokee Wildlife Management Area
Cherokee Wildlife Management Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 581 m. Rich Knob stands 1,295 m to the east, 3.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Oak Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Mount Rogers Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 581 m
How to reach it
- 16.2 mi off the Mount Rogers Scenic Byway
- 24.1 mi off the Mission Crossing
- 29.4 mi off the Trail of the Lonesome Pine / Daniel Boone Heritage Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Big Oak Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Little Oak Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Grandfather Knob: 1.5 mi
- Flint Rock: 3.0 mi
- Rich Knob: 3.2 mi
- Cherokee Purchase Unit: 3.2 mi
- Kettlefoot Wildlife Management Area: 3.2 mi
- Observation Park: 4.1 mi
- Kettlefoot Wildlife Management Area: 5.8 mi
- Holston View Park: 7.2 mi
- gross/morrel homestead: 5.6 mi
- Nick Grindstaff monument: 5.8 mi
- Memorial Tower: 8.0 mi
- Veterans War Memorial: 9.6 mi
- Cobra: 9.6 mi
- Bee Cliff: 12.6 mi
- Backbone Rock: 13.6 mi
- Cardens Bluff: 13.9 mi
- Moody Cliff: 17.6 mi
- Betty Range Cliff: 18.0 mi
- Blue Hole Falls: 6.1 mi
- Abrams Falls: 16.3 mi
- Laurel Falls: 17.7 mi
- Whitetop Laurel Falls: 18.1 mi
- Dennis Cove Waterfall: 18.6 mi
- Bristol Caverns: 5.0 mi
- Bristol Thunder Valley Dragway: 11.6 mi
- Wautauga Dam: 14.2 mi
- Appalachian Caverns: 15.4 mi
- Virginia Creeper Trail Visitor Ctr: 16.0 mi
- Birthplace of Country Music Museum: 9.6 mi
- Welcome Center and Museum: 13.5 mi
- William King Museum: 13.6 mi
- Historical Society of Washington County: 13.6 mi
- Fields Penn 1860 House Museum: 13.7 mi
- Potters Truck Stop: 11.1 mi
- Trials Playground: 12.0 mi
- Shook Branch Picnic Ground: 15.6 mi
- John Douglas Wayside: 19.9 mi
- Elk Knob Picnic Area: 23.2 mi
- Jacob's Nature Park at Sinking Creek: 21.1 mi
- Hidden Valley Wildlife Management Area: 22.8 mi
- Tater Hill Lake Basin Habitat Preservation: 24.4 mi
- The Channels Natural Area Preserve: 24.6 mi
- Elk Valley Preserve: 24.9 mi
- Hampton Spring: 17.8 mi
- Boiling Spring: 18.0 mi
- Cave Spring: 18.3 mi
- Brig Spring: 19.4 mi
- Heartwood: 12.6 mi
- Newman Basket Company: 16.2 mi
- Junaluska: 23.3 mi
- Dr. Catherine Smith Garden: 12.7 mi
- Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery: 22.8 mi
- ETSU Community Garden: 23.3 mi
- Virginia Welcome Center: 12.3 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 12.6 mi
- Shook Branch Swimming Area: 15.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.2 miles of Cherokee Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rich Knob | E 101° | 1,295 m | 3.2 mi |
| Grindstone Knob | E 97° | 1,282 m | 8.7 mi |
| Holston Mountain | SSW 206° | 1,264 m | 4.6 mi |
| Holston High Knob | SSW 206° | 1,261 m | 4.6 mi |
| Forge Mountain | E 97° | 1,249 m | 15.9 mi |
| Locust Knob | E 96° | 1,223 m | 3.4 mi |
| McQueen Knob | ENE 60° | 1,177 m | 7.7 mi |
| Doe Mountain | ESE 123° | 1,163 m | 11.5 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 | 20:50 |
| 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, 11 mi away.
- striped wintergreen8 obs
- sourwood5 obs
- Brown Creeper3 obs
- Timber Rattlesnake3 obs
- Common Box Turtle3 obs
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage3 obs
- strawberry bush3 obs
- Central Ratsnake3 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/356884363
Day trips start here
- Bristol · 10 mi
- Elizabethton · 17 mi
- Johnson City · 22 mi
- Kingsport · 28 mi
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