Radnor Lake Natural Area and Wildlife Refuge
Radnor Lake Natural Area and Wildlife Refuge is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 236 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Creekside Park, a park 1.7 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 300 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 236 m
How to reach it
- 299.7 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 9.9 mi off the Natchez Trace Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Creekside Park: 1.7 mi
- Otter Creek Park: 1.8 mi
- Maryland Way Park: 1.9 mi
- Shy's Hill, Battle of Nashville: 2.0 mi
- Shy's Hill, Battle of Nashville: 2.0 mi
- Holt Knob: 4.6 mi
- Patterson Knob: 4.8 mi
- Ninemile Hill: 5.8 mi
- Meridian Hill: 5.9 mi
- Saint Cloud Hill: 6.1 mi
- Fort Negley: 6.1 mi
- Louise & Rebecca Dudley Park: 6.2 mi
- James Robertson - Founder Of Nashville: 6.2 mi
- The Jungle and Juanita Historical Marker: 7.0 mi
- Timothy Demonbreun: 7.2 mi
- Tennessee Agricultural Museum: 3.1 mi
- Croft House: 3.7 mi
- Cheekwood Mansion: 4.7 mi
- Belle Meade Plantation: 4.7 mi
- The Upper Room: 6.1 mi
- Wedgehill Market -Mixtape: Memories: 5.3 mi
- Dragon: 5.3 mi
- Life Can Be Sweet: 5.5 mi
- The Edgehill Polar Bear Statues: 5.8 mi
- #educationisnotacrime: 5.8 mi
- Belmont Mansion: 5.2 mi
- Boiling Spring Academy (historical): 6.5 mi
- Arcade Street: 7.3 mi
- Printers Alley: 7.3 mi
- Compass: 7.6 mi
- Glen Leven Farm: 3.4 mi
- Brookmeade Park at Kelley's Point Battlefield: 7.5 mi
- Shelby Bottoms: 10.0 mi
- Toll Booth Preserve: 11.0 mi
- Lytle Bend Park: 11.7 mi
- Wray Bluff: 7.2 mi
- Figuers Bluff: 9.9 mi
- McCord Bluff: 10.4 mi
- Buzzard Bluff: 11.5 mi
- Lovers Leap: 14.9 mi
- Cheekwood: 4.6 mi
- Woodbine Community Garden: 5.2 mi
- Sunken Garden: 6.4 mi
- Prime Health Rck Garden: 7.4 mi
- Cane Ridge Community Garden: 10.1 mi
- Creekside Crossing: 1.7 mi
- Seven Points Picnic Area: 14.0 mi
- East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 20.4 mi
- Hendersonville Greenway Trail Head: 21.9 mi
- West Meade Waterfall: 6.7 mi
- Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 8.5 mi
- Swimming Area: 15.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.6 miles of Radnor Lake Natural Area and Wildlife Refuge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sumner Knob | SE 141° | 370 m | 15.9 mi |
| Buteomont | SSE 151° | 368.8 m | 11.8 mi |
| Jenkins Hill | SE 145° | 367 m | 12.0 mi |
| Polk Hill | SE 141° | 366 m | 13.0 mi |
| Morton Knob | SE 142° | 365 m | 12.2 mi |
| Scales Mountain | SE 140° | 362 m | 20.0 mi |
| Pleasant Hill Knob | SSE 154° | 361 m | 10.0 mi |
| McMahan Knob | SSE 157° | 355 m | 9.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:25 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:31 | 19:30 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:12 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 15:57 | 16:37 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
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 | 48 | 57 | 66 | 75 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 59 | 47 | 40 |
| Precip in | 4.6 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 4.9 | 5.7 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Brentwood, 5 mi away.
- Great Blue Heron421 obs
- White-tailed Deer312 obs
- Pond Slider311 obs
- Wood Duck241 obs
- Wild Turkey229 obs
- dwarf larkspur171 obs
- Common Snapping Turtle153 obs
- Common Watersnake137 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/356879507
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