Greenhead Recreation Area
Greenhead Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 110 m. The Mound stands 215 m to the east-northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge, a nature reserve 2.2 miles away. Woodlands Trace passes 19 miles off. 96 named places lie within 25 miles, 25 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 110 m
How to reach it
- 19.1 mi off the Woodlands Trace, National
Overlooks nearby
- Bison Range Overlook · 25 mi
96 named places within 25 miles
- West Sandy Wildlife Management Area: 2.6 mi
- Big Sandy City Park: 5.2 mi
- Big Eagle Recreation Area: 8.2 mi
- Benton County Park: 9.0 mi
- Eiffel Tower Park: 9.1 mi
- Owens Hill: 9.3 mi
- Bomar Hill: 10.7 mi
- High Place: 10.9 mi
- Nero Hill: 11.8 mi
- Lathen Hill: 12.8 mi
- Copperas Bluff: 12.9 mi
- Douglas Bluff: 13.0 mi
- Bullard Point: 13.4 mi
- Express Bluff: 17.7 mi
- Rushing Bluff: 18.5 mi
- Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Randy Hughes Crash Site: 16.5 mi
- Confederate War Memorial: 19.9 mi
- Cannon Monument: 20.7 mi
- Confederate Monument: 23.3 mi
- Time Capsul: 23.8 mi
- Eiffel Tower: 9.1 mi
- WTPR Fish: 10.4 mi
- Caboose: 16.9 mi
- Paris Henry County Heritage Center: 10.4 mi
- Wrather West Kentucky Museum: 23.8 mi
- Gordon Browning Geneological Museum and Library: 24.1 mi
- Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge: 2.2 mi
- Beechy Creek WMA: 17.9 mi
- Murray, Kentucky: 23.3 mi
- Missionary Park Picnic Site: 24.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Greenhead Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mound | ENE 71° | 215 m | 19.0 mi |
| Collier Hill | ESE 121° | 208 m | 21.5 mi |
| Durham Hill | ESE 109° | 206 m | 19.6 mi |
| Cooley Hill | E 96° | 203 m | 17.5 mi |
| Ivy Hill | ESE 114° | 202 m | 21.4 mi |
| Pilot Knob | SSE 148° | 200 m | 17.2 mi |
| Pulley Hill | ENE 62° | 197 m | 18.4 mi |
| Redbank Hill | ENE 76° | 196 m | 13.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:36 | 20:14 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:17 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:01 | 16:02 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 38 | 42 | 50 | 59 | 68 | 76 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 41 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 5.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — BIG Sandy, 5 mi away.
- devil's walkingstick2 obs
- Barred Owl1 obs
- Plain-bellied Watersnake1 obs
- Monarch1 obs
- lion's-mane mushroom1 obs
- buttonbush1 obs
- American hophornbeam1 obs
- American Sicklepod1 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/356856353
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