River Bluff Small Wild Area
River Bluff Small Wild Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 310 m. The Flag Pole stands 1,075 m to the west, 8.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Norris Dam Visitor Center, a attraction 0.6 miles away. Norris Freeway passes 0.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 310 m
How to reach it
- 0.3 mi off the Norris Freeway, National
- 9.0 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Norris Dam Overlook · 1 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Observation Point: 1.1 mi
- High Point: 1.3 mi
- Reservoir Hill: 1.5 mi
- Militia Hill: 4.8 mi
- Vowell Mountain: 5.8 mi
- Norris Dam State Park: 2.0 mi
- Museum of Appalachia: 2.6 mi
- Pine Hill Community Park: 4.6 mi
- Clinton-Jaycee Park: 7.4 mi
- Clinton City Park: 8.6 mi
- Rocky Top Veterans Memorial: 3.8 mi
- Ghosts of Convict Miners: 4.4 mi
- Fort Anderson: 4.4 mi
- Fraterville Disaster: 4.4 mi
- Itinerant Miners' Cemetery: 4.4 mi
- Lenoir Museum: 0.9 mi
- Norris Museum: 1.7 mi
- Museum of Appalachia: 2.6 mi
- Coal Creek Miners Museum: 3.8 mi
- Green McAdoo Cultural Center: 8.4 mi
- River Ridge: 3.1 mi
- Longmire Bluff: 8.7 mi
- Monks Corner: 17.6 mi
- Hangover Rock: 18.1 mi
- Hewitt Bluff: 20.2 mi
- Loyston Point Recreation Area: 7.7 mi
- North Cumberland WMA-Sandquist Unit: 18.4 mi
- Royal Blue Wildlife Management Area: 18.7 mi
- House Mountain Park and State Natural Area: 19.7 mi
- Ijams Nature Center: 21.8 mi
- Baxter Gardens: 14.5 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 18.7 mi
- Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum: 19.9 mi
- Cresent Bend Garden: 20.0 mi
- Grow Lab: 20.1 mi
- Norris Dam Visitor Center: 0.6 mi
- Aspire: 8.8 mi
- Abandoned Train: 17.0 mi
- Knox Selfie Lab: 19.5 mi
- Train Cars: 20.9 mi
- Love's Creek Spring: 18.5 mi
- Herron Spring: 23.0 mi
- Massengil Spring: 23.1 mi
- Alex Haley Statue: 19.8 mi
- Torchbearer Statue: 20.3 mi
- Pat Summitt Statue: 20.4 mi
- Emory Gap Falls: 21.9 mi
- Debord Falls: 22.4 mi
- Boyd Hollow Falls: 24.7 mi
- Loyston: 8.5 mi
- Fork Mountain: 19.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.5 miles of River Bluff Small Wild Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Flag Pole | W 261° | 1,075 m | 8.0 mi |
| Cross Mountain | W 261° | 1,075 m | 8.0 mi |
| Redoak Mountain | WSW 256° | 1,027 m | 9.4 mi |
| Buffalo Mountain | WSW 253° | 1,008 m | 12.9 mi |
| Hurricane Mountain | WNW 293° | 1,007 m | 11.2 mi |
| Pilot Mountain | WSW 245° | 993 m | 11.2 mi |
| Patterson Mountain | WSW 248° | 984 m | 15.6 mi |
| Hatmaker Knob | WNW 295° | 976 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:14 | 19:48 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:20 | 20:58 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 19:01 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 07:45 | 16:46 | 17:26 |
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 | 35 | 39 | 47 | 56 | 64 | 71 | 74 | 74 | 68 | 57 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 5.1 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 5.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norris, 2 mi away.
- Little Brown Jugs80 obs
- bloodroot74 obs
- rue anemone70 obs
- southern red trillium70 obs
- yellow trout lily65 obs
- twoleaf miterwort65 obs
- Purple Phacelia60 obs
- Dutchman's breeches58 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/356847120
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