General Burnside Island State Park
General Burnside Island State Park is a park in Kentucky, at a recorded elevation of 254 m. Big Knob stands 433 m to the north-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Bunker Hill, a peak 0.1 miles away. Cumberland Cultural Heritage Highway passes 1.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 254 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the Cumberland Cultural Heritage Highway
- 27.8 mi off the Wilderness Road Heritage Highway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Bunker Hill: 0.1 mi
- Possum Knob: 1.8 mi
- Seed Tick Knob: 3.0 mi
- Turkey Pen Point: 3.2 mi
- Dugger Hill: 3.6 mi
- Cole Community Park: 0.8 mi
- Firebrook Community Park: 4.7 mi
- Ferguson Park: 5.6 mi
- Public Boat Launch with Parking: 6.0 mi
- Alpine Recreation Area: 6.4 mi
- Hens Nest Cliff: 10.9 mi
- Silvermine Cliff: 11.2 mi
- Tabletop Cliff: 11.3 mi
- Wildcat Cliff: 11.4 mi
- Balls Cliff: 11.5 mi
- Meadow Creek Falls: 10.0 mi
- Bear Creek Falls: 13.7 mi
- Pole Bridge Branch Falls: 13.7 mi
- Dutch Branch Falls: 14.3 mi
- Yahoo Falls: 14.9 mi
- Chimney Arch: 10.2 mi
- Natural Arch: 10.4 mi
- Nathan McClure Arch: 13.7 mi
- Nathan McClure Arch 2: 14.0 mi
- Yahoo Arch: 15.5 mi
- Downtown Somerset Welcome: 7.9 mi
- Tank: 8.1 mi
- Freedom Church Swinging Bridge: 12.3 mi
- Beast Mode: 12.5 mi
- The Ritner Swinging Bridge: 13.0 mi
- First Boy Scout Troop: 0.8 mi
- Burnside: 0.9 mi
- Town Spring: 7.8 mi
- P.O.W. M.I.A. Memorial: 7.9 mi
- Confederate Mass Grave Monument: 9.2 mi
- Lake Cumberland Slaves Memorial: 5.7 mi
- Senator John Sherman Cooper: 7.9 mi
- Mill Spring: 10.1 mi
- Koger Spring: 17.5 mi
- Buck Creek Wildlife Management Area: 13.8 mi
- Ping-Sinking Valley Wildlife Management Area: 19.3 mi
- Bald Rock Picnic Area: 21.3 mi
- Stop: 23.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of General Burnside Island State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Knob | NNE 19° | 433 m | 11.8 mi |
| Sugar Hill Knob | NNE 14° | 428 m | 11.0 mi |
| Clebitt Hill | WSW 239° | 424 m | 10.7 mi |
| Meace Knob | N 9° | 414 m | 11.0 mi |
| Barn Hill | SW 236° | 411 m | 4.3 mi |
| Potato Hill | NNE 28° | 409 m | 11.1 mi |
| High Rock Hill | WSW 237° | 409 m | 11.3 mi |
| Hubble Knob | NNE 25° | 409 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:43 | 19:16 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:23 | 21:02 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:03 | 19:37 |
| December solstice | 07:49 | 16:45 | 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 | 59 | 67 | 74 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 59 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 4.3 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Somerset 2 N, 10 mi away.
- Mallard6 obs
- common pawpaw5 obs
- Wild Turkey4 obs
- American Crow4 obs
- pennywort4 obs
- American sycamore3 obs
- Allegheny Spurge3 obs
- American tuliptree3 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/491420513
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