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Mud Island Park

Mud Island Park from directly overhead

Mud Island Park is a park in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 64 m. The nearest named place is Mississippi River Model Walk, a attraction 0.1 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 162 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates35.14767, -90.05820

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Attractions
  • Mississippi River Model Walk: 0.1 mi
  • Mississippi River Model Walk: 0.1 mi
  • Mississippi River Model Walk: 0.1 mi
  • Mississippi River Model Walk: 0.1 mi
  • Mississippi River Model Walk: 0.1 mi
Parks
Historic sites
  • Mud Island Historic Marker: 0.2 mi
  • The Sultana Disaster Historic Marker: 0.2 mi
  • Cobblestone Landing Historic Marker: 0.2 mi
  • Memphis Suffrage Monument: 0.2 mi
  • B. B. King: 0.2 mi
Beaches: 21
  • Desoto Woods FootPath: 14.5 mi
  • West Junction shore: 18.0 mi
  • West Snake Beach: 18.1 mi
  • West Potato Beach: 18.3 mi
  • West Houston shore beach: 18.3 mi
Artworks: 13
  • Elvis Presley: 0.2 mi
  • Whirl: 0.6 mi
  • I Have Been to the Mountaintop: 0.7 mi
  • Upstander: 0.9 mi
  • Danny Thomas and Child: 0.9 mi
Nature reserves: 7
Gardens: 7
  • Clara Conway Memorial Gardens: 3.6 mi
  • Fisher Memorial Garden: 3.8 mi
  • Emeriti Grove: 7.1 mi
  • Meditation Garden: 7.4 mi
  • Dixon Gardens: 8.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Rest areas: 1
  • Tennessee Welcome Center: 8.0 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Memphis Propbuster's Field: 22.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0518:3919:12
June solstice05:4719:4120:19
September equinox06:4918:2518:59
December solstice07:0616:1416:53

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F404452627179828175635243
Precip in4.44.45.85.85.94.04.23.13.34.44.85.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — W Memphis, 7 mi away.

  • Northern Mockingbird52 obs
  • American Robin36 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel23 obs
  • sunshine mimosa20 obs
  • plains coreopsis17 obs
  • Common Grackle14 obs
  • purple passionflower14 obs
  • Differential Grasshopper14 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/129970014

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