Lotterdale Cove Recreation Area
Lotterdale Cove Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 256 m. Salt Spring Mountain stands 953 m to the southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Lotterdale Knob, a peak 1.3 miles away. Cherohala Skyway passes 21 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 256 m
How to reach it
- 21.2 mi off the Cherohala Skyway, National
- 22.8 mi off the Indian Lakes Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Stratton Ridge · 26 mi
- Whig Cove · 27 mi
- Haw Knob · 28 mi
- Sunset Overlook · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Lotterdale Knob: 1.3 mi
- Chapel HIll: 1.7 mi
- Big Hill: 1.9 mi
- High Top: 2.0 mi
- Red Knobs: 2.9 mi
- Clear Creek Recreation Area: 1.9 mi
- Foothills Pointe Park: 2.1 mi
- Morganton Recreation Area: 2.8 mi
- Poplar Springs Recreation Area: 5.4 mi
- Tellico Blockhouse State Historic Site: 5.6 mi
- Blair Bluff: 5.5 mi
- Mizell Bluff: 6.2 mi
- Leeper Bluff: 6.9 mi
- Crowder Bluff: 10.7 mi
- Marble Bluff: 13.1 mi
- Morganton: 2.4 mi
- McGhee: 4.8 mi
- Fort Loudoun: 5.9 mi
- Lenoir Cotton Mill: 8.0 mi
- Chota Monument: 10.3 mi
- Greenback Heritage Museum: 3.9 mi
- Sequoyah Birthplace Museum: 6.8 mi
- Carmichael Inn Museum: 7.1 mi
- Lenoir City Museum & Cotton: 8.0 mi
- Cades Cove Preservation Association & Cades Cove Museum: 16.7 mi
- Poplar Spring: 5.3 mi
- Hardin Spring: 9.2 mi
- Ebb and Flow Spring: 9.2 mi
- Herron Spring: 15.2 mi
- Huffine Spring: 16.4 mi
- Abrams Falls: 20.7 mi
- Lower Falls: 21.5 mi
- Wildcat Falls: 21.8 mi
- Aiken Branch Falls: 23.2 mi
- Bear Creek Falls: 23.8 mi
- Greenback Castle: 5.7 mi
- Caboose: 7.2 mi
- The Lost Sea: 14.6 mi
- Maryville Greenbelt Amphitheater: 16.0 mi
- Tree of Shame: 23.1 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 13.2 mi
- Look Rock Picnic Area: 16.9 mi
- Roane County Park Picnic Shed 5: 23.6 mi
- Riverfront Park Shed: 24.9 mi
- Cheeyo Park: 2.9 mi
- Cresent Bend Garden: 24.9 mi
- University of Tennessee Gardens: 25.0 mi
- Calderwood: 18.7 mi
- Wheat: 19.5 mi
- Sam Houston Statue: 15.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.0 miles of Lotterdale Cove Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Spring Mountain | SE 144° | 953 m | 18.0 mi |
| Look Rock | E 100° | 810.463 m | 16.9 mi |
| Tallasee Mountain | SE 136° | 650 m | 19.0 mi |
| Harlan Mountain | S 179° | 565 m | 16.3 mi |
| Peaked Top | S 179° | 565 m | 16.3 mi |
| Pine Mountain | ESE 107° | 562 m | 18.5 mi |
| Tyler Mountain | SSE 167° | 560 m | 17.9 mi |
| Cane Creek Mountain | S 171° | 560 m | 18.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:15 | 19:49 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 20:19 | 20:57 |
| September equinox | 07:26 | 19:02 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 07:44 | 16:48 | 17:28 |
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 | 38 | 42 | 50 | 59 | 67 | 75 | 79 | 78 | 72 | 60 | 49 | 42 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 5.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lenoir City, 8 mi away.
- Virginia creeper7 obs
- eastern poison ivy6 obs
- Red Cornsnake6 obs
- striped wintergreen6 obs
- Common Box Turtle5 obs
- American cancer-root5 obs
- White-tailed Deer4 obs
- Eastern Carpenter Bee4 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/356872834
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