Cove Creek Recreation Area
Cove Creek Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 213 m. Alpine Mountain stands 574 m to the south, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Obey River Recreation Area, a park 2.6 miles away. Cumberland Historic Byway passes 2.4 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 213 m
How to reach it
- 2.4 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
- 14.5 mi off the Cumberland Cultural Heritage Highway
- 23.6 mi off the Cordell Hull Highway
Named places within 25 miles
- Huddleston Knob: 5.3 mi
- Regan Knob: 6.0 mi
- Skull Bluff: 6.1 mi
- Poore Knob: 7.2 mi
- Hildreth Knob: 7.7 mi
- Accordion Bluff: 7.8 mi
- Stephens Point: 10.3 mi
- Little Cliff: 13.5 mi
- Long Cliff: 14.8 mi
- Round Cliff: 14.8 mi
- Obey River Recreation Area: 2.6 mi
- Cordell Hull: 2.6 mi
- Cordell Hull: 2.9 mi
- Lillydale Recreation Area: 6.3 mi
- Willow Grove Recreation Area: 7.9 mi
- launch site for kayak: 2.9 mi
- Sunset Marina: 3.0 mi
- Star Point Marina: 3.4 mi
- good landing beach: 4.0 mi
- Eagle Cove Marina: 4.7 mi
- Overton County Museum: 13.0 mi
- Alvin C York Home: 13.9 mi
- Clay County Museum: 16.2 mi
- Old Jail: 17.5 mi
- Old Jail Museum: 17.5 mi
- Handcock Falls: 19.0 mi
- Upper Waterloo Falls: 21.9 mi
- Waterloo Falls: 22.0 mi
- Wash Morgan Falls: 23.2 mi
- Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery Visitor And Environmental Education Center: 22.8 mi
- Mud Camp Creek Wildlife Management Area: 23.1 mi
- Pickett CCC Memorial State Park: 23.4 mi
- Standing Stone State Park: 12.8 mi
- Sgt. Alvin C. York Memorial: 14.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.8 miles of Cove Creek Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Mountain | S 185° | 574 m | 12.7 mi |
| Gullet Mountain | SSW 192° | 566 m | 13.1 mi |
| Egypt Knob | SSE 167° | 554 m | 13.7 mi |
| Skinner Mountain | SE 145° | 550 m | 13.4 mi |
| King Mountain | SSE 153° | 541 m | 11.0 mi |
| Wright Mountain | ESE 104° | 541 m | 13.2 mi |
| Golman Mountain | ENE 75° | 536 m | 10.8 mi |
| Buzzards Roost | ESE 114° | 535 m | 12.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 19:25 | 20:03 |
| September equinox | 06:29 | 18:05 | 18:39 |
| December solstice | 06:50 | 15:49 | 16:29 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 40 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 76 | 74 | 69 | 58 | 47 | 40 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 5.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Byrdstown, 5 mi away.
- common pawpaw5 obs
- American beech4 obs
- Christmas fern4 obs
- Bald Eagle2 obs
- Wood Duck2 obs
- Eastern Kingbird2 obs
- Eastern Phoebe2 obs
- Eastern Fence Lizard2 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/356896965
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