Island Home Park
Island Home Park is a park in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 252 m. Bluff Mountain stands 899 m to the southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Marble Hill, a peak 0.3 miles away. Norris Freeway passes 8.7 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Knoxville
How to reach it
- 8.7 mi off the Norris Freeway, National
- 26.7 mi off the Newfound Gap Road Byway, National
- 29.7 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Norris Dam Overlook · 22 mi
- Carlos Campbell Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Marble Hill: 0.3 mi
- Mabrys Hill: 1.3 mi
- Flint Hill: 1.4 mi
- Temperance Hill: 1.7 mi
- Summit Hill: 2.2 mi
- Mary James Park: 0.7 mi
- Maynard Glenn Fields: 0.7 mi
- Babe Ruth Park: 0.8 mi
- Governor Ned McWherter Riverside Park: 0.8 mi
- Rock City Park: 0.9 mi
- Knox Selfie Lab: 2.2 mi
- Ramsey House Plantation: 3.4 mi
- Nick's MTB Trails: 14.9 mi
- Maryville Greenbelt Amphitheater: 15.1 mi
- Aspire: 16.2 mi
- James White Fort: 1.6 mi
- Million Dollar Fire: 2.0 mi
- Miller's Building Arch: 2.0 mi
- Knoxville Historic Train: 2.1 mi
- East Tennessee Veterans Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Beck Cultural Exchange Center: 1.2 mi
- Mabry-Hazen House: 1.4 mi
- Winstead Mansion: 1.4 mi
- Women's Basketball Hall of Fame: 1.6 mi
- Blount Mansion: 1.8 mi
- Paint Rock Bluff: 4.5 mi
- Cherokee Bluffs: 5.2 mi
- Wright Bluff: 8.6 mi
- Keller Bluff: 12.9 mi
- Longmire Bluff: 13.3 mi
- Ijams Nature Center: 0.9 mi
- Grayson Subaru Nature Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Marie Myers Park: 1.5 mi
- Baker Creek Preserve: 1.5 mi
- William Hastie Natural Area: 2.0 mi
- Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum: 1.4 mi
- Grow Lab: 3.1 mi
- Adaptive and Enabling Garden: 3.3 mi
- Kitchen Garden: 3.3 mi
- Beall Family Rose Garden: 3.3 mi
- Boyd Hollow Falls: 3.7 mi
- Cane Creek Twin Falls: 22.5 mi
- Meigs Falls: 23.3 mi
- Meadow Branch Cascade: 23.4 mi
- White Oak Sinks Falls: 23.8 mi
- Alex Haley Statue: 1.4 mi
- Torchbearer Statue: 2.5 mi
- Pat Summitt Statue: 2.5 mi
- Sam Houston Statue: 15.4 mi
- Dolly Parton: 18.9 mi
- Love's Creek Spring: 4.4 mi
- Strong rock spring: 10.4 mi
- Herron Spring: 16.7 mi
- Ebb and Flow Spring: 22.3 mi
- Hardin Spring: 22.4 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 17.0 mi
- Look Rock Picnic Area: 22.7 mi
- Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area: 23.4 mi
- Tremont Picnic Area: 24.7 mi
- Loyston: 21.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.7 miles of Island Home Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluff Mountain | SE 134° | 899 m | 15.6 mi |
| Little Double | SE 137° | 851 m | 15.5 mi |
| Bearwallow Mountain | SSE 147° | 720 m | 15.7 mi |
| Pleasant View | SSE 147° | 712 m | 15.5 mi |
| House Mountain | NNE 32° | 629 m | 12.3 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | SE 128° | 624 m | 14.8 mi |
| Big Pine Mountain | SE 135° | 604 m | 14.5 mi |
| Little Pine Mountain | SE 132° | 566 m | 14.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:40 | 19:14 | 19:48 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:18 | 20:56 |
| September equinox | 07:24 | 19:00 | 19:34 |
| December solstice | 07:43 | 16:46 | 17:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 41 | 49 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 77 | 76 | 71 | 59 | 48 | 40 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 5.8 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 5.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Knoxville EXP STN, 6 mi away.
- Eastern Newt220 obs
- Northern Cardinal209 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel199 obs
- Amur honeysuckle175 obs
- common ivy157 obs
- white clover145 obs
- bloodroot142 obs
- fortune's spindle139 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/685756255
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