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Four Corners Recreation Area

Four Corners Recreation Area from directly overhead

Four Corners Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 156 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the south-southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Hurricane Creek Recreation Area, a park 0.9 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 301 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
156 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.05006, -86.57333

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Hurricane Creek Recreation Area: 0.9 mi
  • La Vergne Bicentennial Park: 1.9 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 2.0 mi
  • Smith Springs Public Use Area: 2.8 mi
  • Heritage Valley Park: 2.8 mi
Peaks
Historic sites: 46
Artworks: 21
  • Helicopter Distature Statue: 2.0 mi
  • Jesus Statue: 11.9 mi
  • Wedgehill Market -Mixtape: Memories: 12.3 mi
  • #educationisnotacrime: 12.7 mi
  • RONE: 12.7 mi
Attractions: 20
Gardens: 9
Cliffs: 7
Picnic sites: 6
  • Seven Points Picnic Area: 5.4 mi
  • East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 8.4 mi
  • Creekside Crossing: 12.6 mi
  • Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 14.1 mi
  • Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 14.5 mi
Beaches: 2
Lighthouses: 1
  • Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 11.4 mi
Springs: 1
  • Maney Spring: 17.1 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • West Meade Waterfall: 19.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.8 miles of Four Corners Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sumner KnobSSW 193°370 m12.1 mi
ButeomontSW 216°368.8 m12.0 mi
Jenkins HillSSW 213°367 m10.8 mi
Polk HillSSW 206°366 m10.4 mi
Morton KnobSSW 210°365 m10.4 mi
Scales MountainS 180°362 m14.7 mi
Pleasant Hill KnobSW 225°361 m11.7 mi
Townsel HillS 177°359 m16.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2418:58
June solstice05:3119:2920:07
September equinox06:3518:1118:45
December solstice06:5415:5716:36

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394250606877807973615042
Precip in4.14.44.44.75.14.34.43.73.93.33.84.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nashville Berry FLD, 7 mi away.

  • Cedar Gladecress21 obs
  • Fowler's Toad12 obs
  • Tennessee purple coneflower11 obs
  • Nashville breadroot11 obs
  • Huron Skipper11 obs
  • Eastern Fence Lizard9 obs
  • Common Box Turtle8 obs
  • Six-lined Racerunner8 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 node/356879244

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