Park · Tennessee
Howard McVay Park
Howard McVay Park is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 103 m. The nearest named place is C. O. Franklin Park, a park 0.7 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 164 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 103 m
How to reach it
Coordinates35.08395, -89.81673
- 164.0 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 18.6 mi off the Mississippi Delta Great River Road
- 13.5 mi off the Great River Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Beale Street Landing · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- C. O. Franklin Park: 0.7 mi
- Holmes Park: 1.0 mi
- Hacks Cross Park: 1.0 mi
- Hacks Cross Road Park: 1.1 mi
- Germantown Municipal Park: 1.2 mi
Historic sites
- Statue of Liberation Through Christ: 2.8 mi
- Memphis and Charleston Railroad: 9.1 mi
- Spanish War Memorial: 9.9 mi
- L.B. McFarland Memorial Campanile: 10.8 mi
- Sophie G. Freidman Memorial: 10.8 mi
Attractions
- Elvis Car: 3.6 mi
- Memphis Pink Palace Museum: 8.6 mi
- Frisco 1351: 9.0 mi
- Caboose: 9.0 mi
- Tiger Lane: 9.6 mi
Museums: 29
- Museum of Science and History, Pink Palace: 8.6 mi
- Bartlett Museum: 9.0 mi
- Morton Museum of Collierville History: 9.1 mi
- Morton Museum of Collierville History: 9.1 mi
- Memphis Children's Museum: 9.5 mi
Beaches: 21
- West Junction shore: 4.5 mi
- West Snake Beach: 4.5 mi
- West Potato Beach: 4.8 mi
- West Houston shore beach: 4.8 mi
- East Houston shore beach: 5.2 mi
Artworks: 13
- sundial: 2.8 mi
- Crystal Shrine Grotto: 3.7 mi
- The Ring of Peace: 4.3 mi
- Ramesses the Great Statue: 7.3 mi
- E. H. Crump Statue: 10.9 mi
Gardens: 7
- Memphis Botanic Garden: 5.8 mi
- Dixon Gardens: 5.9 mi
- Emeriti Grove: 7.3 mi
- Fisher Memorial Garden: 10.9 mi
- Clara Conway Memorial Gardens: 11.0 mi
Nature reserves: 6
- Germantown Greenway: 2.6 mi
- Lichterman Nature Center: 2.7 mi
- Ducks Unlimited National Headquarters: 3.3 mi
- Robbins-Halle Nature Preserve: 5.5 mi
- Audubon Park: 5.7 mi
Cliffs: 2
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Four: 14.2 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Three: 21.3 mi
Rest areas: 1
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 11.0 mi
Picnic sites: 1
- Memphis Propbuster's Field: 12.9 mi
Ghost towns: 1
- Hopefield: 15.4 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:38 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:46 | 19:40 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:24 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:13 | 16:52 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 43 | 52 | 61 | 70 | 78 | 81 | 80 | 74 | 62 | 51 | 43 |
| Precip in | 4.3 | 4.8 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.5 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Memphis WFO, 3 mi away.
- Red-shouldered Hawk23 obs
- Common Box Turtle17 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle17 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail15 obs
- Red-spotted Admiral12 obs
- Western Honey Bee11 obs
- turkey-tail11 obs
- Canada Goose10 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 way/48979003
Day trips start here
- Olive Branch · 8 mi
- Bartlett · 9 mi
- Southaven · 13 mi
- Memphis · 14 mi
- West Memphis · 21 mi
- Marion · 23 mi
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