Chickamauga Dam Day Use Area
Chickamauga Dam Day Use Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 213 m. Round Top stands 647 m to the south-southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Chickamauga Dam Beach, a beach 0.2 miles away. Lookout Mountain Parkway passes 6.9 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 213 m
How to reach it
- 6.9 mi off the Lookout Mountain Parkway
- 17.8 mi off the Sequatchie Valley Scenic Byway, National
- 18.7 mi off the Cohutta-Chattahoochee Scenic Byway
- 28.6 mi off the Ocoee Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Sterchi Farm: 1.0 mi
- Hubert Fry Center: 1.6 mi
- Cleveland T. Grimes Soccer Complex: 1.7 mi
- Lake Hills Park: 1.7 mi
- Dupont Park: 1.7 mi
- Hamilton Memorial Gardens: 3.0 mi
- 2nd Minnesota Regiment Monument: 4.1 mi
- 4th Army Corps Monument: 5.5 mi
- Ed Johnson Memorial: 5.5 mi
- Andrew's Raiders Monument: 5.6 mi
- Cardboard Hill: 5.5 mi
- Bald Hill: 5.7 mi
- Cameron Hill: 6.2 mi
- Mailbox Hill: 6.9 mi
- Signal Mountain: 8.8 mi
- Orchard Knob Reservation: 4.8 mi
- Central of Georgia 349: 5.2 mi
- Freedom Church: 7.2 mi
- Fireball: 8.3 mi
- Balloon Ride: 8.3 mi
- Grays Bluff: 4.8 mi
- Harrison Bluff: 5.6 mi
- Cumberland Escarpment: 6.3 mi
- Wilder Point: 6.6 mi
- Williams Point: 7.1 mi
- Falling Water Falls 110: 7.3 mi
- Rainbow Falls 40: 8.4 mi
- Julia Falls 95: 8.8 mi
- Clear Branch Falls 40: 9.4 mi
- Power Line Falls 140: 9.5 mi
- Summertime: 4.1 mi
- Summertime (Art in Neighborhoods bus stop wrap): 4.2 mi
- Woodland Tiger: 5.3 mi
- Shakespeare: 5.3 mi
- The Rhino: 5.3 mi
- TVA Big Ridge Small Wild Area: 1.2 mi
- North Chickamauga Creek Wildlife Management Area - Sutton Unit: 3.7 mi
- Audubon Society Wildlife Refuge: 5.3 mi
- North Chickamauga Creek Wildlife Management Area - Williams Unit: 5.3 mi
- Enterprise South Nature Park: 6.0 mi
- rain garden: 5.1 mi
- Blue Cross Garden: 6.1 mi
- Blue Cross Orchard Garden: 6.2 mi
- Jo Lawrence Memorial Garden: 6.7 mi
- Wild Ones Pollinator Garden: 10.0 mi
- Burnt Cabin Springhouse: 8.1 mi
- Straight Spring: 10.8 mi
- Obar Spring: 11.5 mi
- Crawfish Spring: 16.1 mi
- Taylor Spring: 19.4 mi
- Picnic Grove: 2.2 mi
- Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- Picnic Area #2: 6.3 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 10.0 mi
- Picnic and Grill sites: 23.1 mi
- Chickamauga Dam Beach: 0.2 mi
- Booker T. Washington Park Beach: 2.9 mi
- Chester Frost Park Beach: 7.2 mi
- Harrison Bay Park Beach: 7.3 mi
- Georgia Visitor Information Center - I 75 South: 10.4 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 19.6 mi
- Saddleback Platform: 20.9 mi
- Natural Bridge: 10.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.0 miles of Chickamauga Dam Day Use Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round Top | SSW 210° | 647 m | 20.6 mi |
| Buck Knob | N 352° | 625 m | 18.4 mi |
| Suck Creek Mountain | WNW 297° | 624.84 m | 13.3 mi |
| Round Knob | WNW 296° | 601 m | 9.2 mi |
| Buck Knob | NW 323° | 595 m | 10.0 mi |
| Elder Mountain | W 274° | 569 m | 9.8 mi |
| Raccoon Mountain | WSW 251° | 563 m | 10.1 mi |
| The Hellican | NNW 333° | 562 m | 10.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:45 | 19:19 | 19:53 |
| June solstice | 06:28 | 20:22 | 20:59 |
| September equinox | 07:30 | 19:06 | 19:39 |
| December solstice | 07:46 | 16:54 | 17:33 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 46 | 53 | 62 | 70 | 77 | 81 | 80 | 74 | 63 | 51 | 44 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 5.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chattanooga AP, 5 mi away.
- Great Blue Heron150 obs
- White-tailed Deer67 obs
- cross vine60 obs
- Central Ratsnake51 obs
- American trumpet vine48 obs
- Amur honeysuckle47 obs
- Persian silk tree45 obs
- Black Vulture40 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/356873087
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- Chattanooga · 6 mi
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