Kingdom Come State Park
Kingdom Come State Park is a park in Kentucky, at a recorded elevation of 768 m. High Knob stands 1,288 m to the east-southeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Community Park, a park 1.4 miles away. Pine Mountain Road passes 1.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 768 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 1.0 mi off the Pine Mountain Road
- 8.2 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail - VA
- 12.7 mi off the Country Music Highway, National
- 19.0 mi off the Trail of the Lonesome Pine / Daniel Boone Heritage Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Flag Rock Overlook · 20 mi
- Powell Mountain Overlook · 21 mi
- Twin Cliffs Overlook · 21 mi
- Tunnel Floor Observation Deck · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Indian Hill: 1.8 mi
- Hurricane Gap Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Long Spur 2: 5.1 mi
- Black Mountain: 7.4 mi
- Joe Knob: 7.7 mi
- Community Park: 1.4 mi
- Miner's Memorial Park: 2.7 mi
- Coal Miners Memorial Park: 2.7 mi
- Cornettsville Park: 10.6 mi
- River Park: 12.3 mi
- Highest Point in Kentucky: 7.4 mi
- Francis Gary Powers: 12.0 mi
- Stone Face Rock: 15.6 mi
- Old Meade Homeplace: 21.1 mi
- Wise County: 22.2 mi
- Kentucky Coal Mining Museum: 2.7 mi
- Portal 31 Mine Tour: 4.0 mi
- Harry W. Meador Coal Museum: 14.3 mi
- Southwest Virginia Museum: 14.4 mi
- June Tolliver House: 14.5 mi
- E. Lucy Braun State Park State Nature Preserve: 7.1 mi
- Hensley-Pine Mountain Wildlife Management Area: 8.5 mi
- Stone Mountain Natural Area: 19.3 mi
- Cranks Creek Wildlife Management Area: 21.1 mi
- High Knob Recreation Area: 21.5 mi
- War memorial Honor Roll: 12.0 mi
- Woodbooger Statue: 20.2 mi
- Doughboy Statue: 21.4 mi
- Statue of Thomas Jefferson: 23.3 mi
- Howard Cliff: 20.6 mi
- Picnic Grounds: 23.0 mi
- Betty J. Gilliam Sculpture Garden: 23.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.1 miles of Kingdom Come State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Knob | ESE 110° | 1,288 m | 20.7 mi |
| Black Mountain | SE 139° | 1,259 m | 7.4 mi |
| The Doubles | SE 136° | 1,247 m | 8.3 mi |
| Eagle Knob | ESE 109° | 1,196 m | 21.8 mi |
| Camp Rock | ESE 111° | 1,188 m | 21.7 mi |
| Little Mountain | ESE 112° | 1,130 m | 20.8 mi |
| Potato Hill | SE 145° | 1,123 m | 9.1 mi |
| MCD 173 | SSW 210° | 1,096 m | 10.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:10 | 19:44 |
| June solstice | 06:13 | 20:17 | 20:56 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| December solstice | 07:42 | 16:39 | 17:19 |
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 | 36 | 39 | 46 | 56 | 64 | 71 | 75 | 74 | 68 | 58 | 46 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.7 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Skyline 1 SE, 6 mi away.
- striped maple12 obs
- Mallard8 obs
- Eastern Fence Lizard7 obs
- American chestnut7 obs
- Catawba Rhododendron7 obs
- Pipevine Swallowtail7 obs
- galax7 obs
- yellow star grass7 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/848540359
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