Long Hunter State Park
Long Hunter State Park is a park in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 152 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the south-southwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Seven Points Picnic Area, a picnic site 2.2 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 298 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
How to reach it
- 297.7 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 24.3 mi off the Natchez Trace Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Suggs Creek Public Use Area: 2.3 mi
- Historical Marker: Sherrod Bryant: 2.3 mi
- Smith Springs Public Use Area: 2.4 mi
- Seven Points Public Use Area: 2.6 mi
- Bryant Grove Recreation Area: 2.7 mi
- Bald Knob: 3.3 mi
- Posey Hill: 7.2 mi
- Sanford Knob: 8.4 mi
- Todd Knob: 8.6 mi
- Britton Hill: 8.7 mi
- Veterans Memorial Wall: 5.5 mi
- Sewart Air Force Base: 6.7 mi
- Slave Cemetery: 7.0 mi
- Capt. Jeff Kuss USMC "Blue Angel" Memorial: 7.4 mi
- Clover Bottom Mansion: 7.4 mi
- Sam Davis Home Visitor Center and Museum: 8.0 mi
- Lane Motor Museum: 10.8 mi
- Croft House: 11.0 mi
- Tennessee Agricultural Museum: 11.3 mi
- Cooter's: 11.7 mi
- Helicopter Distature Statue: 5.7 mi
- Jesus Statue: 11.8 mi
- Wedgehill Market -Mixtape: Memories: 12.5 mi
- RONE: 12.8 mi
- #educationisnotacrime: 12.8 mi
- Nashville Shores Water Park: 5.1 mi
- Visitor Center: 5.4 mi
- Backwoods Nightmare Haunted Woods: 7.2 mi
- The Hermitage: 8.8 mi
- Wave Country: 9.9 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 2.9 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 4.2 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 1: 4.2 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 5.8 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 6.2 mi
- Cane Ridge Community Garden: 8.4 mi
- Woodbine Community Garden: 11.1 mi
- Dixon L Merritt Native Plant Garden: 12.5 mi
- Sunken Garden: 15.3 mi
- Cheekwood: 18.3 mi
- Anderson Bluff: 14.4 mi
- Indian Ladder Bluff: 20.1 mi
- Wray Bluff: 20.9 mi
- McCord Bluff: 21.0 mi
- Figuers Bluff: 21.2 mi
- Seven Points Picnic Area: 2.2 mi
- East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 9.9 mi
- Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 12.5 mi
- Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 13.0 mi
- Creekside Crossing: 14.7 mi
- Swimming Area: 2.3 mi
- Stahlman Waterfront: 15.5 mi
- Spring Creek: 17.4 mi
- Big Spring: 23.1 mi
- Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 10.6 mi
- Maney Spring: 19.2 mi
- West Meade Waterfall: 20.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.9 miles of Long Hunter State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sumner Knob | SSW 195° | 370 m | 15.7 mi |
| Buteomont | SSW 213° | 368.8 m | 15.6 mi |
| Jenkins Hill | SSW 210° | 367 m | 14.5 mi |
| Polk Hill | SSW 205° | 366 m | 14.1 mi |
| Morton Knob | SSW 208° | 365 m | 14.0 mi |
| Grandfather Knob | ESE 116° | 363 m | 17.6 mi |
| Scales Mountain | S 184° | 362 m | 18.2 mi |
| Pleasant Hill Knob | SW 220° | 361 m | 15.2 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, 7 mi away.
- Tennessee purple coneflower248 obs
- rose vervain174 obs
- Cedar Gladecress170 obs
- Nashville breadroot153 obs
- cleft phlox107 obs
- fragrant sumac103 obs
- Gattinger's Prairie Clover99 obs
- Widow's-cross95 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/915530088
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