Kettlefoot Wildlife Management Area
Kettlefoot Wildlife Management Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 947 m. The Bald stands 1,420 m to the southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Locust Knob, a peak 0.9 miles away. Mount Rogers Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 947 m
How to reach it
- 13.2 mi off the Mount Rogers Scenic Byway
- 22.7 mi off the Mission Crossing
- 28.4 mi off the US 421 Scenic Byway
- 29.1 mi off the New River Valley Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Storyteller Rock · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Locust Knob: 0.9 mi
- Delaney Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Rich Knob: 1.2 mi
- Cross Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Pine Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Kettlefoot Wildlife Management Area: 3.1 mi
- Cherokee Wildlife Management Area: 3.2 mi
- Observation Park: 4.8 mi
- Cherokee Purchase Unit: 5.5 mi
- Doe Mountain Recreation Area: 8.8 mi
- Nick Grindstaff monument: 5.3 mi
- gross/morrel homestead: 8.5 mi
- Old Doe Lookout Tower: 8.9 mi
- Another Way (ShortCut): 9.6 mi
- Johnson County Veterans Memorial Wall: 10.2 mi
- Blue Hole Falls: 8.1 mi
- Whitetop Laurel Falls: 15.0 mi
- Gentry Creek Falls: 15.7 mi
- Straight Branch Falls: 17.0 mi
- Abrams Falls: 18.4 mi
- Backbone Rock: 10.5 mi
- Bee Cliff: 14.7 mi
- Cardens Bluff: 15.7 mi
- Moody Cliff: 20.4 mi
- Morrison Cliff: 20.6 mi
- Welcome Center and Museum: 10.7 mi
- Birthplace of Country Music Museum: 12.1 mi
- Historical Society of Washington County: 12.7 mi
- William King Museum: 12.7 mi
- Fields Penn 1860 House Museum: 12.7 mi
- Bristol Caverns: 7.8 mi
- Virginia Creeper Trail Visitor Ctr: 13.1 mi
- Where Trails Cross: 13.3 mi
- Bristol Thunder Valley Dragway: 14.9 mi
- Wautauga Dam: 16.0 mi
- Tater Hill Lake Basin Habitat Preservation: 22.5 mi
- Hidden Valley Wildlife Management Area: 22.6 mi
- Clinch Mountain WMA: 23.8 mi
- The Channels Natural Area Preserve: 23.8 mi
- Jacob's Nature Park at Sinking Creek: 23.9 mi
- Potters Truck Stop: 9.3 mi
- Trials Playground: 9.4 mi
- Shook Branch Picnic Ground: 17.3 mi
- John Douglas Wayside: 20.1 mi
- Elk Knob Picnic Area: 20.9 mi
- Boiling Spring: 14.7 mi
- Cave Spring: 15.1 mi
- Brig Spring: 16.2 mi
- Hampton Spring: 19.8 mi
- Heartwood: 11.9 mi
- Newman Basket Company: 13.2 mi
- Dr. Catherine Smith Garden: 12.0 mi
- Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery: 20.0 mi
- Virginia Welcome Center: 15.1 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 15.4 mi
- Shook Branch Swimming Area: 17.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.6 miles of Kettlefoot Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bald | SE 140° | 1,420 m | 15.3 mi |
| Bald Knob | E 93° | 1,318 m | 14.5 mi |
| Winnie Knob | E 85° | 1,311 m | 15.6 mi |
| Rich Knob | S 182° | 1,295 m | 1.2 mi |
| Grindstone Knob | ESE 106° | 1,282 m | 5.7 mi |
| Holston Mountain | SW 228° | 1,264 m | 7.0 mi |
| Holston High Knob | SW 228° | 1,261 m | 7.0 mi |
| Forge Mountain | E 101° | 1,249 m | 12.8 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 | 07:17 | 18:52 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:37 | 17:17 |
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, 10 mi away.
- American chestnut17 obs
- Flame Azalea7 obs
- cinnamon fern7 obs
- mayapple6 obs
- red trillium6 obs
- alternate-leaved dogwood5 obs
- white clintonia5 obs
- Eastern Newt4 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/356888209
Day trips start here
- Bristol · 12 mi
- Elizabethton · 19 mi
- Johnson City · 25 mi
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