Clear Creek Recreation Area
Clear Creek Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 257 m. Salt Spring Mountain stands 953 m to the southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Cheeyo Park, a garden 1.0 miles away. Cherohala Skyway passes 21 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 257 m
How to reach it
- 21.4 mi off the Cherohala Skyway, National
- 24.0 mi off the Indian Lakes Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Stratton Ridge · 27 mi
- Whig Cove · 28 mi
- Haw Knob · 28 mi
- Sunset Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- High Top: 1.6 mi
- Terry Knob: 2.5 mi
- Chapel HIll: 2.8 mi
- Big Hill: 3.0 mi
- Lotterdale Knob: 3.1 mi
- Lotterdale Cove Recreation Area: 1.9 mi
- Foothills Pointe Park: 3.0 mi
- Morganton Recreation Area: 3.7 mi
- Poplar Springs Recreation Area: 5.5 mi
- Legion Park: 5.8 mi
- Blair Bluff: 4.6 mi
- Mizell Bluff: 6.8 mi
- Leeper Bluff: 8.2 mi
- Crowder Bluff: 10.4 mi
- Marble Bluff: 11.6 mi
- Morganton: 3.2 mi
- McGhee: 5.5 mi
- Fort Loudoun: 6.5 mi
- Lenoir Cotton Mill: 8.3 mi
- Chota Monument: 11.3 mi
- Poplar Spring: 5.4 mi
- Hardin Spring: 9.7 mi
- Ebb and Flow Spring: 9.8 mi
- Huffine Spring: 14.9 mi
- Poplar Spring: 16.2 mi
- Greenback Heritage Museum: 5.7 mi
- Carmichael Inn Museum: 6.0 mi
- Sequoyah Birthplace Museum: 7.1 mi
- Lenoir City Museum & Cotton: 8.2 mi
- Cades Cove Preservation Association & Cades Cove Museum: 18.6 mi
- Abrams Falls: 22.4 mi
- Lower Falls: 22.6 mi
- Wildcat Falls: 22.8 mi
- Aiken Branch Falls: 24.4 mi
- Baby Falls: 24.4 mi
- Caboose: 6.2 mi
- Greenback Castle: 7.0 mi
- The Lost Sea: 13.0 mi
- Maryville Greenbelt Amphitheater: 17.9 mi
- Tree of Shame: 24.3 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 14.3 mi
- Look Rock Picnic Area: 18.7 mi
- Roane County Park Picnic Shed 5: 22.3 mi
- Riverfront Park Shed: 23.9 mi
- Wheat: 19.2 mi
- Calderwood: 19.9 mi
- Cheeyo Park: 1.0 mi
- Sam Houston Statue: 17.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.9 miles of Clear Creek Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Spring Mountain | SE 139° | 953 m | 18.9 mi |
| Look Rock | E 98° | 810.463 m | 18.7 mi |
| Harlan Mountain | S 173° | 565 m | 16.1 mi |
| Peaked Top | S 173° | 565 m | 16.1 mi |
| Tyler Mountain | SSE 161° | 560 m | 18.0 mi |
| Cane Creek Mountain | SSE 165° | 560 m | 18.7 mi |
| Blue Mountain | SE 146° | 521 m | 17.3 mi |
| Maroney Top | SE 130° | 515 m | 18.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:42 | 19:15 | 19:49 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 20:19 | 20:57 |
| September equinox | 07:26 | 19:02 | 19:36 |
| December solstice | 07:44 | 16:49 | 17:28 |
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 | 38 | 42 | 50 | 59 | 67 | 75 | 79 | 78 | 72 | 60 | 49 | 42 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 5.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lenoir City, 8 mi away.
- Virginia creeper8 obs
- White-tailed Deer6 obs
- eastern poison ivy6 obs
- Red Cornsnake6 obs
- American pokeweed5 obs
- purple passionflower4 obs
- eastern black walnut4 obs
- henbit deadnettle4 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/356850214
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