Riverfront Park
Riverfront Park is a park in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 357 m. Chimneytop stands 945 m to the southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Domtar Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Trail of the Lonesome Pine / Daniel Boone Heritage Trail passes 3.2 miles off.
How to reach it
- 3.2 mi off the Trail of the Lonesome Pine / Daniel Boone Heritage Trail
- 11.2 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail - VA
Overlooks nearby
- Purchase Ridge Overlook · 13 mi
- Lover's Leap Overlook · 14 mi
- Tunnel Floor Observation Deck · 14 mi
- Powell Mountain Overlook · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Domtar Park: 0.3 mi
- Riverwalk Park: 0.6 mi
- Cloud Park: 0.9 mi
- Dogwood Park: 1.0 mi
- Centennial Park: 1.6 mi
- Rocky Hill: 3.0 mi
- High Point: 3.1 mi
- Moore Hill: 3.9 mi
- Cherry Knobs: 4.0 mi
- Holston River Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Battle of Kingsport: 1.3 mi
- Dickson Elementary School: 4.3 mi
- Anderson Block House Monument: 5.7 mi
- Eagle Scout Dedication: 5.9 mi
- Coach Harry Fry: 6.3 mi
- Kit Bluff: 1.5 mi
- Skeleton Bluff: 3.6 mi
- Laurel Run Cliffs: 6.1 mi
- Moody Bluff: 6.5 mi
- Copper Creek Bluff: 8.2 mi
- Car Museum: 1.6 mi
- Gray Fossil Site and Museum: 12.4 mi
- Gray Fossil Site and Museum Annex: 12.4 mi
- Fannon Train Museum: 15.9 mi
- Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Interpretive Center: 16.5 mi
- Kingsport Aquatic Center: 2.9 mi
- Appalachian Caverns: 15.4 mi
- Devil's Bathtub: 18.5 mi
- Bristol Thunder Valley Dragway: 18.9 mi
- Johnson City Sign: 20.7 mi
- Rest Area and Tennessee Welcome Center: 5.1 mi
- I-81 Rest Area - Greene County West: 17.1 mi
- I-81 Rest Area - Greene County East: 19.1 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 19.2 mi
- Virginia Welcome Center: 19.6 mi
- Jacob's Nature Park at Sinking Creek: 21.8 mi
- High Knob Recreation Area: 23.6 mi
- Junaluska: 19.2 mi
- Abrams Falls: 20.3 mi
- ETSU Community Garden: 21.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.4 miles of Riverfront Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chimneytop | SW 214° | 945 m | 11.8 mi |
| Chimneytop Mountain | SW 214° | 926 m | 11.8 mi |
| Big Knob | NNE 30° | 919 m | 9.1 mi |
| Fodderstack Mountain | SW 219° | 839 m | 14.9 mi |
| Stone Mountain | SW 223° | 789 m | 16.3 mi |
| Stony Lump | SW 224° | 766 m | 17.9 mi |
| Walker Mountain | ENE 75° | 727 m | 18.0 mi |
| Holston River Mountain | SW 226° | 707 m | 4.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:13 | 20:14 | 20:53 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:39 | 16:39 | 17:19 |
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 | 40 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 73 | 77 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 47 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kingsport, 4 mi away.
- Osprey49 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant31 obs
- Canada Goose21 obs
- White-tailed Deer20 obs
- Great Blue Heron19 obs
- House Sparrow18 obs
- Cliff Swallow17 obs
- Mallard16 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 way/488332848
Day trips start here
- Kingsport · 2 mi
- Johnson City · 21 mi
- Bristol · 22 mi
- Elizabethton · 24 mi
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