Dryers Creek Recreational Area
Dryers Creek Recreational Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 110 m. The Mound stands 215 m to the south, 7.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Barkley Wildlife Management Area, a park 1.0 miles away. Woodlands Trace passes 4.8 miles off. 112 named places lie within 25 miles, 22 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 110 m
How to reach it
- 4.8 mi off the Woodlands Trace, National
- 21.5 mi off the US 68 Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Bison Range Overlook · 13 mi
112 named places within 25 miles
- Barkley Wildlife Management Area: 1.0 mi
- Day Use Area: 1.0 mi
- Blue Creek Recreation Area: 2.6 mi
- Commissary Hollow Access Point: 4.6 mi
- Bear Creek Waterfowl Management Unit: 5.7 mi
- Robinson Hill: 2.3 mi
- Vinegar Hill: 3.3 mi
- Pulley Hill: 5.3 mi
- Hickman Creek Hill: 5.5 mi
- The Mound: 7.7 mi
- Cannon Monument: 1.2 mi
- Confederate War Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Bear Spring Iron Furnace: 4.7 mi
- Great Western Iron Furnace: 12.6 mi
- Gander Memorial: 22.8 mi
- Bullard Point: 11.1 mi
- Pine Bluff: 13.8 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 16.6 mi
- Express Bluff: 16.7 mi
- Douglas Bluff: 16.9 mi
- Great West Iron Furnace: 12.6 mi
- Homeplace 1850s Working Farm at Land Between The Lakes: 13.3 mi
- Excape Games: 23.9 mi
- Hilltop Chimney: 24.5 mi
- Bison Range Picnic Area: 12.9 mi
- Cedar Pond Picnic Area: 15.3 mi
- Colson Overlook Picnic Area: 20.4 mi
- Jenny Ridge Picnic Area at Land Between The Lakes: 23.8 mi
- Model Spring aka Great Western Spring: 12.6 mi
- Garnett Spring: 19.8 mi
- Beechy Creek WMA: 17.4 mi
- Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge: 20.0 mi
- Wickham Hall Pratt Museum: 22.9 mi
- Don F. Pratt Memorial Museum: 22.9 mi
- SRU Memorial Garden: 23.0 mi
- SRU Garden: 23.0 mi
- Golden Pond: 22.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Dryers Creek Recreational Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mound | S 173° | 215 m | 7.7 mi |
| Durham Hill | S 176° | 206 m | 20.3 mi |
| Cooley Hill | S 179° | 203 m | 15.6 mi |
| Ivy Hill | S 174° | 202 m | 22.7 mi |
| Pulley Hill | S 189° | 197 m | 5.3 mi |
| Redbank Hill | SSW 199° | 196 m | 11.1 mi |
| High Place | SSW 202° | 194 m | 21.9 mi |
| Nero Hill | SW 232° | 191 m | 10.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:29 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:35 | 20:14 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:16 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:00 | 16:00 | 16:40 |
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 | 37 | 41 | 49 | 59 | 67 | 75 | 78 | 78 | 71 | 59 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 6.0 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dover 1 W, 2 mi away.
- Northern Zigzag Salamander17 obs
- Bald Eagle12 obs
- White-tailed Deer6 obs
- Butterweed6 obs
- Dot-lined White6 obs
- Pond Slider5 obs
- Groundhog5 obs
- eastern redcedar5 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/356889486
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