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Coke Ovens Park

Coke Ovens Park from directly overhead

Coke Ovens Park is a park in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 250 m. Ross Mountain stands 715 m to the west, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Coke Oven Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Sequatchie Valley Scenic Byway passes 0.7 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates35.37966, -85.40077

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Harris Park: 0.8 mi
  • Sequatchie County Veterans Memorial Park: 1.7 mi
  • John Griswold Recreation Park: 2.6 mi
  • Community Garden: 5.7 mi
  • South Cumberland Recreation Area: 11.6 mi
Peaks
Waterfalls: 51
  • Savage Falls: 9.6 mi
  • Vortex Falls: 10.4 mi
  • Cooper Creek Falls: 10.8 mi
  • Stevenson Branch Falls: 10.9 mi
  • Mystery Falls 8: 11.2 mi
Historic sites: 28
  • Mining Ruins: 11.9 mi
  • Site #1 - Fibrothers Mine: 13.6 mi
  • Site #10 - Jeffery Home Site: 13.7 mi
  • Site #2 - Ore Car Path: 13.7 mi
  • Judge M.M. Allison: 13.7 mi
Cliffs: 21
Museums: 13
Attractions: 11
Nature reserves: 10
Artworks: 8
Picnic sites: 6
  • Newton Ford Picnic Area: 18.5 mi
  • Picnic Area: 19.7 mi
  • George's Hole: 19.7 mi
  • Foster Falls Picnic Area: 20.6 mi
  • Picnic Area: 22.6 mi
Springs: 4
  • Schwoon Spring: 12.8 mi
  • Burnt Cabin Springhouse: 17.6 mi
  • Pryor Cave Spring: 23.2 mi
  • Obar Spring: 24.6 mi
Beaches: 4
Gardens: 3
  • rain garden: 18.5 mi
  • Blue Cross Garden: 23.1 mi
  • Blue Cross Orchard Garden: 23.2 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Saddleback Platform: 3.9 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridge: 20.2 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.9 miles of Coke Ovens Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Ross MountainW 260°715 m10.9 mi
Bunker HillWSW 256°703 m6.2 mi
Lockhart HillNW 321°694 m7.0 mi
Buck KnobENE 70°693 m6.5 mi
Price MountainNW 311°689 m7.5 mi
Flat MountainNW 305°684 m4.4 mi
Jakes MountainNNW 333°670 m11.6 mi
Wolfpen MountainNNW 332°664 m7.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4618:2018:54
June solstice05:2819:2320:01
September equinox06:3018:0718:40
December solstice06:4815:5416:33

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F404452606775787872615143
Precip in5.85.46.06.04.55.35.65.14.03.95.26.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Whitwell-sequatchie VLY, 7 mi away.

  • mock strawberry9 obs
  • Joro Spider7 obs
  • Field madder6 obs
  • henbit deadnettle5 obs
  • white clover5 obs
  • multiflora rose5 obs
  • Green Anole4 obs
  • North American Wheel Bug3 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/735337071

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