Kettlefoot Wildlife Management Area
Kettlefoot Wildlife Management Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 728 m. Leander Mountain stands 1,321 m to the east-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Pine Mountain, a peak 0.4 miles away. Mount Rogers Scenic Byway passes 10 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 728 m
How to reach it
- 10.3 mi off the Mount Rogers Scenic Byway
- 24.0 mi off the Mission Crossing
- 28.1 mi off the New River Valley Byway
- 29.1 mi off the US 421 Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Pine Mountain: 0.4 mi
- Little Pine Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Locust Pole Knob: 1.2 mi
- McQueen Knob: 1.8 mi
- Little Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Kettlefoot Wildlife Management Area: 3.1 mi
- Observation Park: 5.0 mi
- Cherokee Wildlife Management Area: 5.8 mi
- Cherokee Purchase Unit: 6.9 mi
- Backbone Rock Recreation Area: 7.9 mi
- Another Way (ShortCut): 6.8 mi
- Nick Grindstaff monument: 7.9 mi
- Johnson County Veterans Memorial Wall: 9.7 mi
- Veteran's of all Service Branches: 10.0 mi
- Wheel of Freedom: 10.1 mi
- Blue Hole Falls: 11.1 mi
- Whitetop Laurel Falls: 12.3 mi
- Gentry Creek Falls: 13.6 mi
- Straight Branch Falls: 14.3 mi
- Abrams Falls: 18.7 mi
- Backbone Rock: 7.8 mi
- Bee Cliff: 17.8 mi
- Morrison Cliff: 17.9 mi
- Cardens Bluff: 18.8 mi
- Christy Cliffs: 21.3 mi
- Bristol Caverns: 9.5 mi
- Virginia Creeper Trail Visitor Ctr: 10.2 mi
- Where Trails Cross: 10.4 mi
- Bristol Thunder Valley Dragway: 16.9 mi
- Wautauga Dam: 19.0 mi
- Historical Society of Washington County: 10.3 mi
- Fields Penn 1860 House Museum: 10.3 mi
- Welcome Center and Museum: 10.4 mi
- William King Museum: 10.4 mi
- Birthplace of Country Music Museum: 13.1 mi
- Hidden Valley Wildlife Management Area: 20.6 mi
- Clinch Mountain WMA: 20.8 mi
- The Channels Natural Area Preserve: 21.4 mi
- Clinch Mountain WMA: 22.6 mi
- Clinch Mountain WMA: 23.2 mi
- Trials Playground: 9.8 mi
- Potters Truck Stop: 10.8 mi
- John Douglas Wayside: 18.5 mi
- Shook Branch Picnic Ground: 20.3 mi
- Elk Knob Picnic Area: 21.3 mi
- Heartwood: 9.8 mi
- Newman Basket Company: 10.3 mi
- Wooly: 24.3 mi
- Courthouse Common Soldier, 1914: 24.5 mi
- Boiling Spring: 12.6 mi
- Cave Spring: 12.8 mi
- Brig Spring: 13.7 mi
- Hampton Spring: 22.9 mi
- Dr. Catherine Smith Garden: 9.9 mi
- Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery: 19.5 mi
- Virginia Welcome Center: 16.2 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 16.6 mi
- Shook Branch Swimming Area: 20.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.3 miles of Kettlefoot Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leander Mountain | ESE 122° | 1,321 m | 15.1 mi |
| Bald Knob | ESE 105° | 1,318 m | 13.1 mi |
| Winnie Knob | E 94° | 1,311 m | 13.7 mi |
| Rich Knob | SSW 207° | 1,295 m | 4.1 mi |
| Grindstone Knob | SE 138° | 1,282 m | 5.5 mi |
| Cut Laurel Knob | E 97° | 1,270 m | 14.0 mi |
| Holston Mountain | SW 225° | 1,264 m | 10.0 mi |
| Holston High Knob | SW 224° | 1,261 m | 10.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:32 | 19:06 | 19:40 |
| June solstice | 06:11 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:52 | 19:26 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:36 | 17:16 |
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 | 35 | 38 | 45 | 54 | 63 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 67 | 56 | 45 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Abingdon 3S, 8 mi away.
- poke milkweed8 obs
- American cancer-root6 obs
- wild geranium5 obs
- American chestnut5 obs
- Pipevine Swallowtail5 obs
- common selfheal5 obs
- Cucumber Root5 obs
- pale jewelweed4 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/356814383
Day trips start here
- Bristol · 13 mi
- Elizabethton · 22 mi
- Johnson City · 28 mi
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