Ginger Bay Lake Access Area
Ginger Bay Lake Access Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 117 m. The Mound stands 215 m to the southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Pine Bluff, a cliff 1.3 miles away. Woodlands Trace passes 3.6 miles off. 96 named places lie within 25 miles, 21 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 117 m
How to reach it
- 3.6 mi off the Woodlands Trace, National
- 10.9 mi off the US 68 Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Bison Range Overlook · 4 mi
96 named places within 25 miles
- Neville Bay Lake Access: 6.8 mi
- Boswell Landing: 7.2 mi
- Boswell Landing Lake Access Area: 7.4 mi
- Ft. Henry Trail Head at Land Between The Lakes: 8.2 mi
- Linton Public Use Area: 8.3 mi
- Round Top: 4.1 mi
- Buzzard Roost: 7.1 mi
- Devil's Pulpit: 8.6 mi
- Gordon Hill: 9.3 mi
- Hickman Creek Hill: 11.7 mi
- Great Western Iron Furnace: 3.7 mi
- Confederate War Memorial: 13.7 mi
- Cannon Monument: 14.1 mi
- Confederate Monument: 14.7 mi
- Bear Spring Iron Furnace: 18.9 mi
- Bison Range Picnic Area: 3.8 mi
- Cedar Pond Picnic Area: 4.1 mi
- Colson Overlook Picnic Area: 7.7 mi
- Jenny Ridge Picnic Area at Land Between The Lakes: 11.5 mi
- Hematite Lake Picnic Area: 19.0 mi
- Pine Bluff: 1.3 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 2.8 mi
- Hillman Bluff: 17.1 mi
- Bullard Point: 20.1 mi
- Taylor Bluff: 20.6 mi
- Great West Iron Furnace: 3.7 mi
- Homeplace 1850s Working Farm at Land Between The Lakes: 4.2 mi
- Hilltop Chimney: 11.4 mi
- Center Furnace Trail: 19.1 mi
- Model Spring aka Great Western Spring: 3.7 mi
- Garnett Spring: 19.9 mi
- Beechy Creek WMA: 7.0 mi
- Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge: 20.9 mi
- Golden Pond: 11.2 mi
- Murray, Kentucky: 14.6 mi
- Wrather West Kentucky Museum: 15.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Ginger Bay Lake Access Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mound | SE 142° | 215 m | 20.3 mi |
| Pulley Hill | SE 142° | 197 m | 17.4 mi |
| Redbank Hill | SSE 157° | 196 m | 20.5 mi |
| Nero Hill | SSE 167° | 191 m | 15.2 mi |
| Brigham Hill | ESE 119° | 190 m | 22.8 mi |
| Hickman Creek Hill | SSE 148° | 189 m | 11.7 mi |
| Round Top | ESE 113° | 188 m | 4.1 mi |
| Gordon Hill | N 2° | 185 m | 9.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:30 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:36 | 20:15 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:17 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:01 | 16:00 | 16:41 |
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 | 36 | 40 | 50 | 59 | 68 | 76 | 80 | 79 | 72 | 61 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 5.9 | 5.5 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 5.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kenlake Resort, 11 mi away.
- Fowler's Toad5 obs
- purple passionflower3 obs
- Virginia Metallic Tiger Beetle3 obs
- Eastern Copperhead3 obs
- Eastern Kingbird2 obs
- Common Box Turtle2 obs
- baldcypress2 obs
- common ragweed2 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/356849135
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