Fountain City Park
Fountain City Park is a park in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 298 m. House Mountain stands 629 m to the east-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Highland Neighborhood Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Norris Freeway passes 3.1 miles off.
How to reach it
- 3.1 mi off the Norris Freeway, National
- 23.9 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Norris Dam Overlook · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Highland Neighborhood Park: 0.7 mi
- Fountain City Recreation Complex: 1.0 mi
- Adair Park: 1.3 mi
- AYSO 337 Soccer Complex: 1.3 mi
- Sterchi Hills Park: 2.0 mi
- Mabrys Hill: 4.8 mi
- Temperance Hill: 4.8 mi
- Summit Hill: 4.9 mi
- Richmond Hill: 5.1 mi
- Flint Hill: 5.2 mi
- Josie Fine Memorial: 2.7 mi
- St. Mary's Hospital: 3.1 mi
- Christian-Newsom Memorial: 3.5 mi
- Tennessee Monument: 4.3 mi
- Rule High School: 4.5 mi
- The Muse Knoxville: 3.8 mi
- The Muse Knoxville: 3.8 mi
- Winstead Mansion: 4.7 mi
- Mabry-Hazen House: 4.8 mi
- Beck Cultural Exchange Center: 4.8 mi
- Longmire Bluff: 7.5 mi
- Cherokee Bluffs: 8.0 mi
- Paint Rock Bluff: 9.1 mi
- Wright Bluff: 11.4 mi
- River Ridge: 14.0 mi
- Knox Selfie Lab: 4.8 mi
- Ramsey House Plantation: 7.8 mi
- Aspire: 11.4 mi
- Norris Dam Visitor Center: 15.6 mi
- Maryville Greenbelt Amphitheater: 19.7 mi
- Ijams Nature Center: 6.7 mi
- Grayson Subaru Nature Preserve: 7.1 mi
- Baker Creek Preserve: 7.2 mi
- Marie Myers Park: 7.4 mi
- William Hastie Natural Area: 7.9 mi
- Baxter Gardens: 1.5 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 4.6 mi
- Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum: 4.8 mi
- Grow Lab: 5.8 mi
- Cresent Bend Garden: 6.1 mi
- Alex Haley Statue: 4.9 mi
- Torchbearer Statue: 5.8 mi
- Pat Summitt Statue: 6.0 mi
- Sam Houston Statue: 19.9 mi
- Dolly Parton: 23.6 mi
- Love's Creek Spring: 4.2 mi
- Strong rock spring: 12.4 mi
- Herron Spring: 16.6 mi
- Ebb and Flow Spring: 23.1 mi
- Hardin Spring: 23.2 mi
- Boyd Hollow Falls: 9.6 mi
- Loyston: 15.8 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 17.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.3 miles of Fountain City Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| House Mountain | ENE 61° | 629 m | 10.6 mi |
| Rhetts View | NE 53° | 500 m | 15.7 mi |
| Brushy Knob | N 4° | 471 m | 5.8 mi |
| Mitchell Knob | N 0° | 463 m | 7.3 mi |
| High Point | NNW 330° | 439 m | 15.0 mi |
| Roderick Mountain | E 88° | 432 m | 16.7 mi |
| Hightop | ESE 109° | 429 m | 10.9 mi |
| Potter Knob | N 0° | 428 m | 8.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:40 | 19:14 | 19:48 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:18 | 20:57 |
| September equinox | 07:24 | 19:00 | 19:34 |
| December solstice | 07:43 | 16:46 | 17:26 |
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 | 37 | 41 | 49 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 77 | 76 | 71 | 59 | 48 | 40 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 5.8 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 5.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Knoxville EXP STN, 10 mi away.
- Red Clover50 obs
- lyreleaf sage23 obs
- Amur honeysuckle18 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel17 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail17 obs
- northern spicebush16 obs
- Cope's Gray Tree Frog16 obs
- Northern Cardinal15 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.
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