Nashville Shores Recreation Area
Nashville Shores Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 176 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the south, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Visitor Center, a attraction 1.3 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 295 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 176 m
How to reach it
- 295.2 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 20.6 mi off the Natchez Trace Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Hamilton Creek Metropolitan Park: 1.7 mi
- Ben West Sports Complex: 2.1 mi
- Anderson Road Public Use Area: 2.3 mi
- Hermitage Lands Wildlife Management Area: 2.3 mi
- Una Recreation Park: 2.4 mi
- Todd Knob: 3.8 mi
- Fosters Hill: 6.4 mi
- Confederate Hill: 7.6 mi
- Bald Knob: 8.1 mi
- Saint Cloud Hill: 8.3 mi
- Clover Bottom Mansion: 2.9 mi
- Louise & Rebecca Dudley Park: 7.8 mi
- Fort Negley: 8.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial Wall: 8.4 mi
- Fort Nashborough: 8.6 mi
- Lane Motor Museum: 6.1 mi
- Cooter's: 7.1 mi
- Croft House: 7.3 mi
- Tennessee Central Railway Museum: 7.3 mi
- Museum of Contemporary Art Nashville (MOCAN): 7.8 mi
- Jesus Statue: 7.1 mi
- Helicopter Distature Statue: 7.9 mi
- Wedgehill Market -Mixtape: Memories: 7.9 mi
- RONE: 8.1 mi
- #educationisnotacrime: 8.1 mi
- Visitor Center: 1.3 mi
- Nashville Shores Water Park: 2.0 mi
- Wave Country: 5.1 mi
- The Hermitage: 5.8 mi
- Shelby Bottoms Nature Center: 6.0 mi
- Toll Booth Preserve: 3.0 mi
- Lytle Bend Park: 4.0 mi
- Shelby Bottoms: 5.8 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 6.7 mi
- Glen Leven Farm: 8.2 mi
- Woodbine Community Garden: 6.7 mi
- Cane Ridge Community Garden: 9.1 mi
- Sunken Garden: 10.6 mi
- Cheekwood: 14.2 mi
- Prime Health Rck Garden: 16.5 mi
- Anderson Bluff: 10.5 mi
- McCord Bluff: 16.2 mi
- Buzzard Bluff: 16.5 mi
- Wray Bluff: 18.0 mi
- Rocky Cliff: 18.5 mi
- Seven Points Picnic Area: 3.4 mi
- Creekside Crossing: 11.7 mi
- Hendersonville Greenway Trail Head: 13.6 mi
- East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 14.4 mi
- Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 17.1 mi
- Swimming Area: 7.0 mi
- Stahlman Waterfront: 15.2 mi
- Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 5.7 mi
- West Meade Waterfall: 16.2 mi
- Spring Creek: 21.5 mi
- Maney Spring: 23.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.6 miles of Nashville Shores Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sumner Knob | S 179° | 370 m | 17.4 mi |
| Buteomont | SSW 195° | 368.8 m | 15.9 mi |
| Jenkins Hill | S 191° | 367 m | 15.1 mi |
| Polk Hill | S 186° | 366 m | 15.1 mi |
| Morton Knob | S 189° | 365 m | 14.8 mi |
| Pleasant Hill Knob | SSW 201° | 361 m | 14.9 mi |
| Pilot Knob | E 94° | 357 m | 18.7 mi |
| McMahan Knob | SSW 203° | 355 m | 15.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:51 | 18:25 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 19:29 | 20:08 |
| 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, 3 mi away.
- Mallard33 obs
- Great Blue Heron19 obs
- American Coot14 obs
- Common Loon13 obs
- Common Box Turtle12 obs
- White-tailed Deer10 obs
- Virginia creeper10 obs
- Monarch9 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/356879122
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