Hurricane Creek Recreation Area
Hurricane Creek Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 153 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the south-southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 301 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 153 m
How to reach it
- 301.0 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 23.4 mi off the Natchez Trace Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Four Corners Recreation Area: 0.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 2.1 mi
- Poole Knobs Recreation Area: 2.2 mi
- Poole Knobs Recreation Area: 2.3 mi
- La Vergne Bicentennial Park: 2.3 mi
- Bald Knob: 3.3 mi
- Sanford Knob: 5.0 mi
- Britton Hill: 5.4 mi
- Moor Hill: 6.0 mi
- Flag Hill: 9.0 mi
- Veterans Memorial Wall: 2.1 mi
- Sewart Air Force Base: 3.6 mi
- Slave Cemetery: 4.3 mi
- Capt. Jeff Kuss USMC "Blue Angel" Memorial: 4.3 mi
- Clover Bottom Mansion: 9.7 mi
- Sam Davis Home Visitor Center and Museum: 5.2 mi
- Tennessee Agricultural Museum: 10.6 mi
- Croft House: 10.8 mi
- Lane Motor Museum: 11.7 mi
- Cedars of Lebanon: Sadie Ford Hertitage Farm & Arts Center: 12.6 mi
- Helicopter Distature Statue: 2.5 mi
- Jesus Statue: 12.6 mi
- Wedgehill Market -Mixtape: Memories: 13.1 mi
- #educationisnotacrime: 13.5 mi
- RONE: 13.5 mi
- Visitor Center: 7.8 mi
- Nashville Shores Water Park: 7.8 mi
- Backwoods Nightmare Haunted Woods: 8.2 mi
- The Hermitage: 11.7 mi
- Wave Country: 11.9 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 0.6 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 1: 2.0 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 2.8 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 3.5 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 4.3 mi
- Cane Ridge Community Garden: 5.7 mi
- Woodbine Community Garden: 11.5 mi
- Dixon L Merritt Native Plant Garden: 13.2 mi
- Sunken Garden: 16.0 mi
- Prime Health Rck Garden: 16.4 mi
- Seven Points Picnic Area: 5.3 mi
- East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 7.7 mi
- Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 13.2 mi
- Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 13.5 mi
- Creekside Crossing: 13.5 mi
- Anderson Bluff: 17.1 mi
- Figuers Bluff: 19.1 mi
- Wray Bluff: 19.5 mi
- McCord Bluff: 21.7 mi
- Buzzard Bluff: 22.3 mi
- Swimming Area: 2.4 mi
- Stahlman Waterfront: 18.8 mi
- Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 12.0 mi
- Maney Spring: 16.6 mi
- Spring Creek: 18.8 mi
- West Meade Waterfall: 20.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.7 miles of Hurricane Creek Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sumner Knob | SSW 197° | 370 m | 12.4 mi |
| Buteomont | SW 220° | 368.8 m | 12.7 mi |
| Jenkins Hill | SW 216° | 367 m | 11.4 mi |
| Polk Hill | SSW 210° | 366 m | 10.9 mi |
| Morton Knob | SW 214° | 365 m | 10.9 mi |
| Scales Mountain | S 183° | 362 m | 14.8 mi |
| Pleasant Hill Knob | SW 228° | 361 m | 12.5 mi |
| Townsel Hill | S 180° | 359 m | 16.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:51 | 18:24 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 19:29 | 20:07 |
| September equinox | 06:35 | 18:11 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 06:54 | 15:56 | 16:36 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 40 | 48 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 47 | 39 |
| Precip in | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 5.6 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 5.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gladeville, 8 mi away.
- Cedar Gladecress21 obs
- Tennessee purple coneflower13 obs
- Streamside Salamander12 obs
- Fowler's Toad12 obs
- Common Box Turtle10 obs
- Nashville breadroot9 obs
- Eastern Fence Lizard8 obs
- lyreleaf sage8 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/356876250
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