Rutain Park
Rutain Park is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 267 m. Big Fodderstack stands 1,013 m to the north-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Mayor Bob Leonard Park, a park 2.2 miles away. Norris Freeway passes 23 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 267 m
How to reach it
- 23.4 mi off the Norris Freeway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Norris Dam Overlook · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mayor Bob Leonard Park: 2.2 mi
- Melton Hill Dam Recreation Area: 2.3 mi
- Academy Park: 2.3 mi
- Hickory Creek Park: 2.4 mi
- Hardin Valley Park: 3.4 mi
- Little Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Pine Top: 3.2 mi
- Melton Hill: 4.1 mi
- High Point: 7.1 mi
- Rainy Knob: 7.2 mi
- Lenoir Cotton Mill: 4.8 mi
- K-29: 8.9 mi
- K-731: 8.9 mi
- K-25 (Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant): 8.9 mi
- K-27: 9.0 mi
- Lenoir City Museum & Cotton: 4.8 mi
- K-25 History Center: 8.7 mi
- Carmichael Inn Museum: 9.2 mi
- The Oak Ridge History Museum: 10.6 mi
- American Museum of Science and Energy: 10.6 mi
- Stubbs Bluff: 3.9 mi
- Bull Bluff: 6.2 mi
- Hewitt Bluff: 6.3 mi
- Mizell Bluff: 6.6 mi
- Leeper Bluff: 8.2 mi
- Hardin Spring: 3.8 mi
- Ebb and Flow Spring: 3.8 mi
- Herron Spring: 5.8 mi
- Poplar Spring: 7.7 mi
- Poplar Spring: 8.4 mi
- Cheeyo Park: 13.7 mi
- Cresent Bend Garden: 18.8 mi
- University of Tennessee Gardens: 19.2 mi
- Beall Family Rose Garden: 19.2 mi
- Kitchen Garden: 19.2 mi
- Caboose: 9.0 mi
- Greenback Castle: 17.4 mi
- Aspire: 17.8 mi
- Maryville Greenbelt Amphitheater: 18.1 mi
- Knox Selfie Lab: 20.7 mi
- Baker Creek Preserve: 21.9 mi
- William Hastie Natural Area: 22.3 mi
- Marie Myers Park: 22.5 mi
- Grayson Subaru Nature Preserve: 23.2 mi
- Ijams Nature Center: 23.3 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 6.0 mi
- Riverfront Park Shed: 16.9 mi
- Roane County Park Picnic Shed 5: 18.5 mi
- Look Rock Picnic Area: 23.8 mi
- Sam Houston Statue: 17.9 mi
- Pat Summitt Statue: 20.0 mi
- Torchbearer Statue: 20.0 mi
- Alex Haley Statue: 21.6 mi
- Debord Falls: 22.7 mi
- Emory Gap Falls: 22.8 mi
- Boyd Hollow Falls: 24.0 mi
- Wheat: 8.1 mi
- Fork Mountain: 20.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.3 miles of Rutain Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Fodderstack | NNW 334° | 1,013 m | 19.1 mi |
| Pilot Mountain | N 359° | 993 m | 19.9 mi |
| American Knob | NNW 339° | 984 m | 17.5 mi |
| Patterson Mountain | NNW 346° | 984 m | 19.2 mi |
| Big Brushy Mountain | NNW 332° | 979 m | 17.1 mi |
| Flagpole Knob | NNW 332° | 977 m | 17.1 mi |
| Toddy Mountain | NNW 345° | 971 m | 17.3 mi |
| Hannah Top | NNW 343° | 963 m | 19.9 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, 5 mi away.
- leatherleaf mahonia4 obs
- Northern Cardinal3 obs
- Common Box Turtle3 obs
- tree-of-heaven3 obs
- Cope's Gray Tree Frog3 obs
- Mourning Dove2 obs
- Groundhog2 obs
- Western Honey Bee2 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/356850302
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