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Frederick Douglass Park

Frederick Douglass Park from directly overhead

Frederick Douglass Park is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 129 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the south-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is McFerrin Park, a park 0.4 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 292 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
129 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.17918, -86.76219

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • McFerrin Park: 0.4 mi
  • East Park: 0.4 mi
  • East Park: 0.5 mi
  • Cleveland Park: 0.6 mi
  • Cleveland Park: 0.7 mi
Museums: 38
Historic sites: 36
  • Jacques Timothe Boucher De Montbrun: 1.2 mi
  • Nashville Desegregation Plaque: 1.2 mi
  • James Robertson and John Donelson: 1.3 mi
  • Outstanding Nashvillian Monument: 1.3 mi
  • Witness Walls Memorial: 1.3 mi
Artworks: 20
Attractions: 18
  • Printers Alley: 1.4 mi
  • Arcade Street: 1.4 mi
  • Compass: 1.5 mi
  • Bell Carillon: 1.5 mi
  • Shelby Bottoms Nature Center: 2.3 mi
Nature reserves: 17
Cliffs: 9
Gardens: 6
Picnic sites: 5
  • Creekside Crossing: 10.2 mi
  • Seven Points Picnic Area: 11.5 mi
  • Hendersonville Greenway Trail Head: 14.0 mi
  • Balthrop Park: 21.4 mi
  • East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 22.2 mi
Beaches: 2
Lighthouses: 1
  • Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 2.6 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • West Meade Waterfall: 10.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.5 miles of Frederick Douglass Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sumner KnobSSE 159°370 m22.1 mi
ButeomontS 170°368.8 m18.9 mi
Jenkins HillSSE 165°367 m18.7 mi
Polk HillSSE 162°366 m19.3 mi
Morton KnobSSE 163°365 m18.6 mi
Pleasant Hill KnobS 173°361 m17.3 mi
McMahan KnobS 174°355 m17.3 mi
Daddy KnobS 170°353 m19.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5218:2518:59
June solstice05:3119:3020:08
September equinox06:3618:1218:46
December solstice06:5515:5716:37

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F384250606875797872604941
Precip in4.74.65.44.85.34.34.33.74.23.83.84.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Shelby Bottoms Nature, 2 mi away.

  • House Sparrow122 obs
  • Northern Mockingbird96 obs
  • Gulf Fritillary80 obs
  • American Robin67 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee67 obs
  • Pipevine Swallowtail62 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel59 obs
  • Amur honeysuckle56 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/267098487

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