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Harrison Bay State Park

Harrison Bay State Park from directly overhead

Harrison Bay State Park is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 212 m. Buck Knob stands 693 m to the north-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Harrison Bay Park Beach, a beach 0.5 miles away. Lookout Mountain Parkway passes 15 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
212 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates35.17229, -85.12107

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Chester Frost Park: 1.3 mi
  • Hamilton County Park: 1.4 mi
  • Chester Frost Park: 1.5 mi
  • Camp Columbus: 2.2 mi
  • Dog Park: 2.3 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
  • Hamilton Memorial Gardens: 7.6 mi
  • Veteran's Park Fighterjet: 8.1 mi
  • Veteran's Park Tank: 8.1 mi
  • Veteran's Park Helicopter: 8.1 mi
  • Site #4 - Incline Control House: 8.5 mi
Attractions: 37
  • Orchard Knob Reservation: 12.6 mi
  • Central of Georgia 349: 13.0 mi
  • Brainard Optimist Drag Strip: 14.3 mi
  • Freedom Church: 14.6 mi
  • Fireball: 15.2 mi
Cliffs: 29
Waterfalls: 28
  • Clear Branch Falls 40: 7.8 mi
  • Power Line Falls 140: 7.9 mi
  • Hogskin Branch: 8.2 mi
  • Stripmine Falls: 8.8 mi
  • Falling Water Falls 110: 9.2 mi
Museums: 21
Artworks: 14
Nature reserves: 12
Gardens: 10
  • Garden of Prayer: 9.3 mi
  • rain garden: 11.0 mi
  • Jo Lawrence Memorial Garden: 12.5 mi
  • BSUMC Giving Garden: 13.8 mi
  • Blue Cross Garden: 13.8 mi
Beaches: 4
Picnic sites: 4
  • Picnic Area #2: 5.1 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 8.8 mi
  • Picnic Area: 13.2 mi
  • Picnic Pavilion: 17.6 mi
Springs: 4
  • Burnt Cabin Springhouse: 13.9 mi
  • Straight Spring: 18.5 mi
  • Obar Spring: 19.1 mi
  • Crawfish Spring: 23.0 mi
Rest areas: 2
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridge: 17.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.8 miles of Harrison Bay State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buck KnobNNW 330°693 m19.2 mi
Buck KnobNNW 328°625 m15.4 mi
Suck Creek MountainW 272°624.84 m17.6 mi
Round KnobW 265°601 m14.0 mi
Buck KnobWNW 283°595 m12.0 mi
Elder MountainWSW 254°569 m16.2 mi
Raccoon MountainWSW 241°563 m17.5 mi
The HellicanWNW 291°562 m11.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4519:1919:52
June solstice06:2720:2120:59
September equinox07:2919:0519:39
December solstice07:4616:5417:33

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F384149596673777669594941
Precip in6.35.05.85.84.85.34.94.65.03.75.06.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Soddy Daisy-mowbray MTN, 10 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer106 obs
  • Great Blue Heron76 obs
  • American sweetgum49 obs
  • Mallard48 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel39 obs
  • Red-headed Woodpecker38 obs
  • eastern redcedar37 obs
  • Fowler's Toad32 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/356809219

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