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Hermitage Lands Wildlife Management Area

Hermitage Lands Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Hermitage Lands Wildlife Management Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 171 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the south, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Nashville Shores Water Park, a attraction 0.4 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 293 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
171 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.16230, -86.60817

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
Historic sites: 44
Museums: 40
Attractions: 20
Artworks: 19
Nature reserves: 17
Cliffs: 9
Gardens: 7
  • Woodbine Community Garden: 8.2 mi
  • Cane Ridge Community Garden: 11.3 mi
  • Sunken Garden: 11.6 mi
  • Cheekwood: 15.7 mi
  • Dixon L Merritt Native Plant Garden: 16.7 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Seven Points Picnic Area: 3.4 mi
  • Hendersonville Greenway Trail Head: 11.4 mi
  • Creekside Crossing: 13.8 mi
  • East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 15.3 mi
  • Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 16.7 mi
Beaches: 2
Ghost towns: 2
Lighthouses: 1
  • Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 6.2 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • West Meade Waterfall: 17.6 mi
Springs: 1
  • Maney Spring: 24.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.0 miles of Hermitage Lands Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sumner KnobS 182°370 m19.5 mi
ButeomontSSW 197°368.8 m18.2 mi
Jenkins HillSSW 193°367 m17.3 mi
Polk HillS 189°366 m17.3 mi
Morton KnobS 191°365 m17.0 mi
Pleasant Hill KnobSSW 202°361 m17.2 mi
Pilot KnobE 101°357 m18.0 mi
McMahan KnobSSW 203°355 m17.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2518:58
June solstice05:3019:2920:08
September equinox06:3518:1118:45
December solstice06:5415:5616:36

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394250606877807973615042
Precip in4.14.44.44.75.14.34.43.73.93.33.84.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nashville Berry FLD, 5 mi away.

  • Mallard28 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly26 obs
  • White-tailed Deer18 obs
  • Gulf Fritillary17 obs
  • Northern Mockingbird16 obs
  • Wild Turkey15 obs
  • Northern Cardinal15 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel15 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 node/356879311

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