Rock Creek Scenic Area
Rock Creek Scenic Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 458 m. Big Frog Mountain stands 1,276 m to the south-southeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Rock Creek Falls, a waterfall 0.3 miles away. Ocoee Scenic Byway passes 1.4 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 458 m
How to reach it
- 1.4 mi off the Ocoee Scenic Byway
- 15.0 mi off the Cohutta-Chattahoochee Scenic Byway
- 23.7 mi off the Cherohala Skyway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Gazebo Overlook · 2 mi
- Scenic Overlook · 2 mi
- Sugerloaf Viewpoint · 2 mi
- Parksville Lake Viewpoint · 2 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Chestnut Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Hooper Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Little Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Little Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Prince Knob: 3.2 mi
- Clemmer Campsite: 1.2 mi
- Chilhowee Recreation Area: 1.3 mi
- Mac Point Recreation Area: 1.6 mi
- Parksville Lake Recreation Area: 1.8 mi
- Frank Hammon Memorial Park: 4.2 mi
- CSA Soldiers Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Nancy Ward Tomb: 5.2 mi
- Fort Marr Blockhouse: 7.5 mi
- Conasauga Native Americal Wall: 11.3 mi
- Fred Stone: 13.0 mi
- Historic L&N Caboose: 13.6 mi
- Historic Firetruck: 13.6 mi
- Georgia-Tennessee Border: 16.3 mi
- Rolling Thunder River Company: 16.7 mi
- Prayer Mountain: 19.5 mi
- Rock Creek Falls: 0.3 mi
- Benton Falls: 0.4 mi
- Lowry Falls: 6.9 mi
- Big Lost Falls: 7.9 mi
- Jacks River Falls 80: 11.3 mi
- Henegar Bluff: 11.3 mi
- Panther Bluff: 16.0 mi
- White Cliff: 17.1 mi
- Sivils Bluff: 18.1 mi
- Eads Bluff: 20.7 mi
- L&N Depot Museum: 13.6 mi
- Museum Center at 5ive Points: 15.8 mi
- Swift Museum: 18.2 mi
- McMinn County Living Heritage Museum: 21.1 mi
- Charles Hall Museum: 23.2 mi
- Big Bend Recreation Area: 8.6 mi
- Towee Creek Picnic area: 9.2 mi
- Lake Conasauga Picnic and Swim Site: 19.3 mi
- Cherokee Lake Picnic Area: 24.8 mi
- Parksville Beach: 3.0 mi
- Shady Beach: 5.0 mi
- Shady Beach: 5.0 mi
- McMinn County Rest Area Northbound: 20.9 mi
- McMinn County Rest Area Southbound: 21.0 mi
- BSUMC Giving Garden: 16.0 mi
- Potatopatch Spring: 20.3 mi
- Cohutta Wildlife Management Area: 22.8 mi
- Face: 22.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.2 miles of Rock Creek Scenic Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Frog Mountain | SSE 158° | 1,276 m | 10.0 mi |
| Chimneytop | SSE 153° | 1,137 m | 9.2 mi |
| Hemp Top | SSE 159° | 1,089 m | 12.0 mi |
| Little Frog Mountain | ESE 106° | 1,017 m | 10.3 mi |
| Sassafras Knob | ESE 106° | 1,016 m | 10.3 mi |
| Smith Mountain | E 97° | 946 m | 11.4 mi |
| Bean Mountain;Oswald Dome | NNE 28° | 921 m | 4.5 mi |
| Licklog Top | SE 145° | 901 m | 10.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:43 | 19:17 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:25 | 20:19 | 20:57 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:03 | 19:37 |
| December solstice | 07:44 | 16:52 | 17:31 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 44 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 78 | 78 | 72 | 60 | 49 | 42 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 4.9 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cleveland Fltr PLT, 13 mi away.
- Eastern Newt39 obs
- mountain laurel33 obs
- Carolina sweetshrub28 obs
- partridgeberry24 obs
- American sweetgum22 obs
- galax22 obs
- striped wintergreen20 obs
- great rhododendron18 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/356894952
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