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Pickett State Rustic Park Historic District

Pickett State Rustic Park Historic District from directly overhead

Pickett State Rustic Park Historic District is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 479 m. Wright Mountain stands 541 m to the west-southwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Pickett CCC Memorial State Park, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. Cumberland Historic Byway passes 8.7 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
479 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.55091, -84.79716

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Gobblers Knob: 3.0 mi
  • Pinnacle Mountain: 4.3 mi
  • Parker Mountain: 4.6 mi
  • Chimney Rock: 5.0 mi
  • Black House Mountain: 5.1 mi
Cliffs
Parks: 30
Attractions: 18
  • Rock Hole: 3.0 mi
  • Twin Arch North: 3.5 mi
  • Twin Arches: 3.5 mi
  • Twin Arch South: 3.5 mi
  • Tackett Homesite & Graves: 3.9 mi
Natural arches: 11
  • Buffalo Arch: 4.1 mi
  • Nancy’s Tunnel Arch: 8.4 mi
  • Etta's Arch: 8.5 mi
  • Amphitheater Arch: 8.8 mi
  • Smith’s Cemetery Arch: 8.9 mi
Museums: 6
Waterfalls: 6
  • Angel Falls: 9.0 mi
  • Big Spring Falls: 15.7 mi
  • Town Creek Falls: 18.8 mi
  • Lick Creek Falls: 19.6 mi
  • Handcock Falls: 21.3 mi
Historic sites: 3
Springs: 2
  • Historic Massengale Homestead Spring: 14.7 mi
  • Koger Spring: 18.8 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Nature reserves: 1
Picnic sites: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.5 miles of Pickett State Rustic Park Historic District. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Wright MountainWSW 251°541 m10.8 mi
Golman MountainWNW 282°536 m12.8 mi
Buzzards RoostWSW 245°535 m12.9 mi
Campbell MountainSW 234°533 m11.5 mi
Cherry Gap MountainNNW 330°530 m10.5 mi
Bald RockWNW 294°527 m11.6 mi
Slippery RockWNW 296°525 m10.4 mi
Buck MountainWSW 259°525 m11.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4419:1719:51
June solstice06:2220:2321:02
September equinox07:2819:0419:38
December solstice07:4816:4817:28

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343745546269737266564538

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pickett SP, under a mile away.

  • Hartford fern52 obs
  • bigleaf magnolia52 obs
  • mountain laurel46 obs
  • trailing arbutus41 obs
  • mapleleaf viburnum35 obs
  • partridgeberry34 obs
  • box huckleberry34 obs
  • downy rattlesnake plantain33 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 node/356883208

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