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Hurricane Bridge Recreation Area

Hurricane Bridge Recreation Area from directly overhead

Hurricane Bridge Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 245 m. Short Mountain stands 635 m to the southwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Floating Mill Park, a park 1.0 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates36.03453, -85.75275

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
Waterfalls: 13
  • Center Hill-Fancher Falls: 7.3 mi
  • Burgess Falls: 8.6 mi
  • Middle Falls: 8.6 mi
  • Little Falls: 8.8 mi
  • Falling Water Cascades: 8.8 mi
Cliffs: 9
Museums: 8
  • Baxter Visitor Center and Museum: 10.3 mi
  • Soard Properties Museum: 16.0 mi
  • Depot Museum: 16.3 mi
  • Cookeville Childrens Museum: 16.4 mi
  • Cookeville History Museum: 16.5 mi
Attractions: 2
  • Canoe the Caney - Satellite Location: 6.1 mi
  • Sunset Rock: 21.9 mi
Gardens: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Tennessee Visitor Center: 8.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Historic sites: 1
  • The Pink Elephant: 15.3 mi
Artworks: 1
  • TTU Eagle Statue: 17.1 mi
Springs: 1
  • Spring Shelter: 21.9 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.7 miles of Hurricane Bridge Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Short MountainSW 227°635 m17.0 mi
Burnett MountainE 81°561 m20.5 mi
Mason MountainSW 225°533 m16.0 mi
Jones MountainENE 62°524 m22.0 mi
Little Short MountainSW 217°522 m15.9 mi
High KnobSE 125°505 m14.4 mi
Gum Spring MountainSE 125°505 m14.4 mi
Milksick MountainSE 125°497 m21.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4818:2118:55
June solstice05:2719:2620:04
September equinox06:3218:0818:42
December solstice06:5115:5316:33

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F384149596876797872615042
Precip in4.95.15.34.84.85.25.43.94.03.54.05.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lancaster Edgar Evins Marina, 5 mi away.

  • Dutchman's breeches24 obs
  • eastern shooting star23 obs
  • wild comfrey16 obs
  • Christmas fern14 obs
  • cut-leaved toothwort13 obs
  • smallflower baby blue eyes13 obs
  • mayapple12 obs
  • crowpoison12 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 way/582712868

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