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Saline Creek Access Point

Saline Creek Access Point from directly overhead

Saline Creek Access Point is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 107 m. Buffalo Knob stands 217 m to the north-northeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Bumpus Mills Recreation Area, a park 0.3 miles away. Woodlands Trace passes 3.0 miles off. 109 named places lie within 25 miles, 20 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
107 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.61672, -87.88780

Overlooks nearby

109 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 46
Peaks: 20
Historic sites: 14
  • Great Western Iron Furnace: 5.1 mi
  • Cannon Monument: 9.1 mi
  • Confederate War Memorial: 9.2 mi
  • Bear Spring Iron Furnace: 12.3 mi
  • Confederate Monument: 17.2 mi
Cliffs: 8
Picnic sites: 6
Attractions: 4
Springs: 2
  • Model Spring aka Great Western Spring: 5.2 mi
  • Garnett Spring: 13.9 mi
Nature reserves: 2
Gardens: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Artworks: 1
  • Murray, Kentucky: 23.0 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Saline Creek Access Point. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buffalo KnobNNE 27°217 m23.5 mi
The MoundSSE 166°215 m16.2 mi
Cooley HillS 172°203 m23.8 mi
Pulley HillS 170°197 m13.5 mi
Redbank HillS 182°196 m18.5 mi
Nero HillSSW 199°191 m15.1 mi
Brigham HillSE 132°190 m15.7 mi
Hickman Creek HillSSW 193°189 m9.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:3019:04
June solstice05:3419:3620:14
September equinox06:4018:1618:50
December solstice07:0116:0016:40

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F374149596775787871594940
Precip in4.24.85.25.76.04.54.33.83.63.84.34.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dover 1 W, 9 mi away.

  • Common Box Turtle4 obs
  • Great Blue Heron2 obs
  • North American Racer2 obs
  • Pond Slider2 obs
  • Black Kingsnake2 obs
  • Little Brown Skink2 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail2 obs
  • Appalachian blazing star2 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/356889492

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