Rock Springs Park
Rock Springs Park is a park in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 240 m. Big Brushy Mountain stands 979 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Lenoir City Museum & Cotton, a museum 0.4 miles away. Norris Freeway passes 27 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Lenoir City
How to reach it
- 26.9 mi off the Norris Freeway, National
- 29.5 mi off the Cherohala Skyway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Lenior City Area Recreation Complex: 0.5 mi
- East Lakeshore Trail: Canal Branch Trailhead: 1.8 mi
- Lenoir City Park: 1.9 mi
- Poplar Springs Recreation Area: 3.1 mi
- Yarberry Peninsular Recreation Area: 3.3 mi
- Pine Top: 1.8 mi
- Little Mountain: 2.5 mi
- High Point: 6.5 mi
- Chapel HIll: 6.8 mi
- Alexander Knob: 7.7 mi
- Lenoir Cotton Mill: 0.4 mi
- Morganton: 10.8 mi
- K-731: 11.8 mi
- K-29: 11.8 mi
- K-27: 11.9 mi
- Mizell Bluff: 2.5 mi
- Blair Bluff: 5.2 mi
- Leeper Bluff: 5.4 mi
- Stubbs Bluff: 8.3 mi
- Marble Bluff: 10.3 mi
- Lenoir City Museum & Cotton: 0.4 mi
- Carmichael Inn Museum: 5.5 mi
- Greenback Heritage Museum: 10.8 mi
- K-25 History Center: 11.7 mi
- The Oak Ridge History Museum: 15.0 mi
- Hardin Spring: 1.9 mi
- Ebb and Flow Spring: 2.0 mi
- Poplar Spring: 3.3 mi
- Herron Spring: 8.5 mi
- Poplar Spring: 9.9 mi
- Cheeyo Park: 9.3 mi
- Cresent Bend Garden: 20.8 mi
- University of Tennessee Gardens: 21.1 mi
- Beall Family Rose Garden: 21.1 mi
- Kitchen Garden: 21.1 mi
- Caboose: 5.4 mi
- Greenback Castle: 13.4 mi
- Maryville Greenbelt Amphitheater: 16.9 mi
- The Lost Sea: 20.2 mi
- Aspire: 21.9 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 7.4 mi
- Riverfront Park Shed: 18.6 mi
- Roane County Park Picnic Shed 5: 18.9 mi
- Look Rock Picnic Area: 21.3 mi
- Sam Houston Statue: 16.6 mi
- Pat Summitt Statue: 21.8 mi
- Torchbearer Statue: 21.9 mi
- Alex Haley Statue: 23.6 mi
- Baker Creek Preserve: 23.5 mi
- William Hastie Natural Area: 23.8 mi
- Marie Myers Park: 24.0 mi
- Grayson Subaru Nature Preserve: 24.9 mi
- Wheat: 11.4 mi
- Fork Mountain: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.4 miles of Rock Springs Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Brushy Mountain | NNW 338° | 979 m | 21.0 mi |
| Flagpole Knob | NNW 337° | 977 m | 21.0 mi |
| Jackson Mountain | NNW 339° | 768 m | 20.6 mi |
| Little Brushy Mountain | NNW 337° | 715 m | 20.4 mi |
| Big Mountain | NNW 342° | 712 m | 21.1 mi |
| Cooke Knob | NW 314° | 505 m | 21.3 mi |
| Big Butte | N 354° | 499 m | 19.4 mi |
| Shingle Mountain | SE 140° | 488 m | 21.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:42 | 19:15 | 19:49 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 20:19 | 20:57 |
| September equinox | 07:26 | 19:02 | 19:36 |
| December solstice | 07:44 | 16:48 | 17:28 |
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 | 38 | 42 | 50 | 59 | 67 | 75 | 79 | 78 | 72 | 60 | 49 | 42 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 5.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lenoir City, under a mile away.
- Blue-fronted Dancer11 obs
- eastern redcedar10 obs
- Little Brown Jugs10 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle9 obs
- purple passionflower9 obs
- swamp rose mallow9 obs
- strawberry bush9 obs
- Great Blue Heron8 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/1151332690
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