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Renaissance Park

Renaissance Park from directly overhead

Renaissance Park is a park in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 205 m. Kings Pinnacle stands 520 m to the west, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Yorkmont Park, a park 0.9 miles away. Crowders Mountain Drive passes 21 miles off. 13 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates35.17583, -80.90798

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Yorkmont Park: 0.9 mi
  • Springfield Park: 1.0 mi
  • Pressley Road Park: 1.8 mi
  • Amay James Park: 1.8 mi
  • Reid Neighborhood Park: 2.1 mi
Artworks
  • Queen's Park sign: 1.7 mi
  • Furrow: 2.2 mi
  • Furrow: 2.2 mi
  • Furrow: 2.2 mi
  • Furrow: 2.2 mi
Attractions
  • METALmorphosis: 2.8 mi
  • Abandoned Charlotte Delivery Service Truck and Car: 3.4 mi
  • Gainseville Midland: 3.8 mi
  • F-4 Phantom II: 4.6 mi
  • Fury 325: 5.2 mi
Museums: 36
Gardens: 28
Nature reserves: 27
Peaks: 13
Beaches: 5
  • South Point Beach: 6.0 mi
  • Sailing Beach: 9.2 mi
  • Ramsay Creek Park Beach: 19.9 mi
  • SHOAL: 22.2 mi
  • SHOAL: 23.1 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Long Creek Falls: 20.5 mi
  • Little Long Creek Falls: 20.7 mi
  • High Shoals: 22.5 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • North Carolina Welcome Center: 3.7 mi
  • South Carolina Welcome Center: 6.9 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Carowinds Grove: 5.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Renaissance Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Kings PinnacleW 276°520 m23.0 mi
Crowders MountainW 281°458 m21.2 mi
Spencer MountainNW 306°375 m14.4 mi
Henry KnobW 262°344 m20.9 mi
Jackson KnobW 278°328 m15.0 mi
Reese MountainNNW 326°325 m20.9 mi
Nanny MountainWSW 237°299 m13.1 mi
Berry MountainWNW 290°281 m10.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2819:0219:36
June solstice06:1020:0420:42
September equinox07:1218:4919:22
December solstice07:2916:3717:16

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424653616977807973625145
Precip in3.53.14.03.83.44.03.74.43.73.23.33.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Charlotte Douglas AP, 4 mi away.

  • Green Anole14 obs
  • American sweetgum11 obs
  • Red-shouldered Hawk9 obs
  • American pokeweed9 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail9 obs
  • Pear-shaped Puffball9 obs
  • Common Box Turtle8 obs
  • Fowler's Toad8 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/491707640

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