Holly Flats Recreation Area
Holly Flats Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 576 m. Haw Knob stands 1,662 m to the east-northeast, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Gravelstand Top, a peak 1.6 miles away. Cherohala Skyway passes 4.4 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 576 m
How to reach it
- 4.4 mi off the Cherohala Skyway, National
- 15.1 mi off the Nantahala Byway
- 15.9 mi off the Waterfall Byway
- 17.4 mi off the Indian Lakes Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Whig Cove · 9 mi
- Sunset Overlook · 9 mi
- Haw Knob · 9 mi
- Stratton Ridge · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Gravelstand Top: 1.6 mi
- Henderson Top: 1.8 mi
- Waucheesi Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Nit Top: 2.7 mi
- Round Top: 3.0 mi
- Cherokee Wildlife Management Area: 7.3 mi
- Fall Branch Scenic Area: 7.9 mi
- Indian Boundary Recreation Area: 8.9 mi
- Santeetlah Overlook: 9.5 mi
- Double Camp Recreation Area: 10.6 mi
- Bald River Falls: 2.7 mi
- Baby Falls: 2.9 mi
- Tellico Falls: 7.5 mi
- North Shoal Creek Falls: 8.0 mi
- Falls Branch Falls: 8.1 mi
- Tellico Plains Veterans Memorial: 8.4 mi
- Joyce Kilmer Memorial: 14.7 mi
- Trees Plaque: 16.0 mi
- Site of Fort Butler: 16.1 mi
- Tanasi Monument: 18.5 mi
- All Nations Cross: 11.6 mi
- Golgotha Hill: 11.9 mi
- Garden Tomb: 12.0 mi
- Arise and Shine Marker: 12.0 mi
- Prayer Mountain: 12.0 mi
- White Cliff: 13.4 mi
- Lovers Leap: 15.1 mi
- Crowder Bluff: 16.7 mi
- Crowder Bluff: 16.9 mi
- Turkeypen Bluff: 19.2 mi
- Charles Hall Museum: 8.7 mi
- Cherokee County Historical Museum: 16.0 mi
- L&N Depot Museum: 19.6 mi
- Sequoyah Birthplace Museum: 20.5 mi
- Junaluska Museum: 21.0 mi
- Cherokee Lake Picnic Area: 15.2 mi
- Towee Creek Picnic area: 16.5 mi
- Big Bend Recreation Area: 17.3 mi
- Eagle Dancer: 21.2 mi
- Rivercane Clan Pole: 21.2 mi
- Rivercane Rendezvous: 21.2 mi
- Cherohala Skyway restroom/trail head: 10.1 mi
- Calderwood: 18.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.0 miles of Holly Flats Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haw Knob | ENE 79° | 1,662 m | 8.8 mi |
| Big Junction | E 83° | 1,638 m | 9.0 mi |
| Laurel Top | E 84° | 1,615 m | 8.8 mi |
| Little Haw Knob | ENE 76° | 1,562 m | 8.3 mi |
| Grassy Top | E 88° | 1,514 m | 8.1 mi |
| Johns Knob | ENE 69° | 1,491 m | 9.0 mi |
| Mitchell Lick | E 89° | 1,404 m | 8.8 mi |
| Hangover Top | ESE 109° | 1,387 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:15 | 19:49 |
| June solstice | 06:23 | 20:18 | 20:55 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 19:02 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 07:42 | 16:50 | 17:29 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 43 | 51 | 59 | 68 | 75 | 78 | 77 | 71 | 59 | 48 | 42 |
| Precip in | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 4.8 | 5.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tellico Plains, 9 mi away.
- Pocock's Lampshade-web Spider41 obs
- downy rattlesnake plantain8 obs
- Rainbow Trout4 obs
- galax4 obs
- Christmas fern4 obs
- great rhododendron4 obs
- white bergamot4 obs
- Shrub Yellowroot4 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/356894981
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