Paint Rock Wildlife Management Area
Paint Rock Wildlife Management Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 226 m. American Knob stands 984 m to the north-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Paint Rock Bluff, a cliff 1.2 miles away. Sequatchie Valley Scenic Byway passes 30 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 226 m
How to reach it
- 29.7 mi off the Sequatchie Valley Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Long Island Wildlife Management Area: 2.7 mi
- Riley Creek Recreational Area: 3.8 mi
- Southwest Point Park: 5.7 mi
- Kingston Waterfront Park: 6.2 mi
- Gertrude Porter Memorial Park: 6.5 mi
- High Point: 5.5 mi
- Gage Hill: 5.8 mi
- River Knobs: 6.9 mi
- Little Mountain: 10.2 mi
- Pine Top: 10.7 mi
- Paint Rock Bluff: 1.2 mi
- Marble Bluff: 2.5 mi
- Marney Bluff: 5.2 mi
- Wester Bluff: 5.3 mi
- Stowe Bluff: 6.5 mi
- Huffine Spring: 1.5 mi
- Rose Spring: 4.6 mi
- Ambrose Spring: 5.7 mi
- Poplar Spring: 6.6 mi
- Delozier Spring: 10.4 mi
- Fort Southwest Point: 5.6 mi
- Fort Southwest Point: 5.6 mi
- Lake Shore: 8.9 mi
- K-731: 10.4 mi
- K-27: 10.4 mi
- Carmichael Inn Museum: 8.5 mi
- K-25 History Center: 10.6 mi
- Lenoir City Museum & Cotton: 11.7 mi
- Jane Manley Museum: 11.8 mi
- Oliver Springs Historical Society Museum & Archives: 18.9 mi
- Ozone Falls: 19.8 mi
- Ray Falls: 20.6 mi
- Upper Piney Falls 80: 22.2 mi
- Lower Piney Falls 40: 22.4 mi
- Debord Falls: 24.0 mi
- Roane County Park Picnic Shed 5: 8.2 mi
- Riverfront Park Shed: 10.5 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 18.3 mi
- Roadside Table: 21.0 mi
- Spring City Railfan Spot: 22.7 mi
- Wheat: 11.5 mi
- Cute: 20.9 mi
- Fork Mountain: 23.3 mi
- Montgomery: 23.6 mi
- Caboose: 8.4 mi
- The Lost Sea: 17.9 mi
- Greenback Castle: 21.1 mi
- Piney Falls State Natural Area: 22.1 mi
- Black Mountain Area: 23.1 mi
- Keyes-Harrison Wildlife Management Area: 24.9 mi
- Cheeyo Park: 13.8 mi
- Sam: 20.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.8 miles of Paint Rock Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Knob | NNE 14° | 984 m | 21.6 mi |
| Big Brushy Mountain | N 10° | 979 m | 20.0 mi |
| Flagpole Knob | N 10° | 977 m | 20.0 mi |
| Chimney Top Mountain | N 357° | 948 m | 21.6 mi |
| Indian Knob | N 1° | 931 m | 21.5 mi |
| Kelley Mountain | N 0° | 856 m | 20.9 mi |
| Luper Mountain | WNW 303° | 833 m | 20.8 mi |
| Thorny Mountain | WNW 297° | 811 m | 21.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:42 | 19:16 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:23 | 20:20 | 20:58 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:03 | 19:36 |
| December solstice | 07:45 | 16:49 | 17:29 |
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 | 37 | 41 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 75 | 78 | 77 | 72 | 60 | 48 | 40 |
| Precip in | 5.5 | 6.0 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 4.5 | 6.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kingston, 5 mi away.
- Hartford fern3 obs
- Common Box Turtle2 obs
- American tuliptree2 obs
- downy rattlesnake plantain2 obs
- Small's ragwort2 obs
- rattlesnakeweed2 obs
- striped wintergreen2 obs
- rue anemone2 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/356825776
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