J Percy Priest Wildlife Management Area
J Percy Priest Wildlife Management Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 152 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the south, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Seven Points Public Use Area, a park 0.9 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 295 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 152 m
How to reach it
- 294.7 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 23.0 mi off the Natchez Trace Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Seven Points Public Use Area: 0.9 mi
- Hermitage Lands Wildlife Management Area: 2.0 mi
- Suggs Creek Public Use Area: 2.2 mi
- Vivrett Creek Public Use Area: 2.2 mi
- Anderson Road Public Use Area: 2.3 mi
- Todd Knob: 5.3 mi
- Bald Knob: 6.7 mi
- Fort Hill: 7.9 mi
- Posey Hill: 8.5 mi
- Fosters Hill: 8.7 mi
- Clover Bottom Mansion: 4.1 mi
- Veterans Memorial Wall: 8.3 mi
- Sewart Air Force Base: 10.0 mi
- Louise & Rebecca Dudley Park: 10.1 mi
- Slave Cemetery: 10.4 mi
- Cooter's: 8.3 mi
- Lane Motor Museum: 8.4 mi
- Tennessee Central Railway Museum: 9.5 mi
- Rock Castle: 9.6 mi
- Museum of Contemporary Art Nashville (MOCAN): 9.6 mi
- Helicopter Distature Statue: 8.2 mi
- Jesus Statue: 9.4 mi
- Wedgehill Market -Mixtape: Memories: 10.3 mi
- RONE: 10.4 mi
- Bending Normal: 10.5 mi
- Nashville Shores Water Park: 1.6 mi
- Visitor Center: 2.2 mi
- The Hermitage: 5.4 mi
- Wave Country: 6.6 mi
- Madame Tussauds Nashville: 7.6 mi
- Toll Booth Preserve: 4.5 mi
- Lytle Bend Park: 5.2 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 6.0 mi
- Shelby Bottoms: 7.6 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 1: 7.6 mi
- Woodbine Community Garden: 9.1 mi
- Cane Ridge Community Garden: 10.1 mi
- Sunken Garden: 12.9 mi
- Dixon L Merritt Native Plant Garden: 15.0 mi
- Cheekwood: 16.6 mi
- Anderson Bluff: 10.9 mi
- McCord Bluff: 18.4 mi
- Buzzard Bluff: 18.6 mi
- Rocky Cliff: 18.8 mi
- Indian Ladder Bluff: 19.7 mi
- Seven Points Picnic Area: 1.4 mi
- Hendersonville Greenway Trail Head: 12.8 mi
- East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 13.4 mi
- Creekside Crossing: 14.0 mi
- Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 15.0 mi
- Swimming Area: 5.8 mi
- Stahlman Waterfront: 13.5 mi
- Spring Creek: 19.1 mi
- Big Spring: 23.9 mi
- Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 7.8 mi
- West Meade Waterfall: 18.6 mi
- Maney Spring: 22.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.0 miles of J Percy Priest Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sumner Knob | S 187° | 370 m | 18.1 mi |
| Buteomont | SSW 202° | 368.8 m | 17.2 mi |
| Jenkins Hill | SSW 199° | 367 m | 16.3 mi |
| Polk Hill | SSW 194° | 366 m | 16.1 mi |
| Morton Knob | SSW 197° | 365 m | 15.9 mi |
| Pleasant Hill Knob | SSW 208° | 361 m | 16.4 mi |
| Pilot Knob | E 96° | 357 m | 16.4 mi |
| McMahan Knob | SSW 210° | 355 m | 16.7 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: Mar–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 42 | 50 | 60 | 68 | 77 | 80 | 79 | 73 | 61 | 50 | 42 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nashville Berry FLD, 6 mi away.
- Streamside Salamander19 obs
- Eastern Fence Lizard18 obs
- Common Loon16 obs
- White-tailed Deer14 obs
- Fowler's Toad14 obs
- Horned Grebe13 obs
- Pied-billed Grebe13 obs
- Great Blue Heron13 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/356898501
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