Salt Lick Creek Recreation Area
Salt Lick Creek Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 166 m. Jones Mountain stands 524 m to the east-southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Bakers Knob, a peak 2.8 miles away. Cordell Hull Highway passes 22 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 166 m
How to reach it
- 22.4 mi off the Cordell Hull Highway
- 22.4 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Granville Veteran's Park: 3.6 mi
- Sunset Pavilion: 4.6 mi
- Sunset Pavilion: 4.6 mi
- Defeated Creek Recreation Area: 5.6 mi
- Granville Recreation Area / Indian Creek Campground: 5.8 mi
- Bakers Knob: 2.8 mi
- Bell Hill: 5.3 mi
- Buzzard Bluff Knob: 6.9 mi
- Ray Bluff Knob: 7.0 mi
- Schelley Knob: 7.4 mi
- Dripping Rock Bluff: 9.8 mi
- Petty Bluff: 10.7 mi
- Mutton Bluff: 10.8 mi
- Alex Bluff: 10.9 mi
- Upton Bluff: 13.1 mi
- Charlotte Falls: 14.1 mi
- Cummins Falls: 14.2 mi
- Savannah Falls: 14.4 mi
- Wash Morgan Falls: 15.5 mi
- Waterloo Falls: 19.0 mi
- Granville Museum: 3.6 mi
- Smith County Heritage Museum: 9.3 mi
- The Eads Museum: 9.9 mi
- Baxter Visitor Center and Museum: 14.9 mi
- Soard Properties Museum: 19.9 mi
- Tech Native Plant Garden: 19.7 mi
- CRMC Basin Garden: 19.8 mi
- Spring Shelter: 7.6 mi
- Tennessee Visitor Center: 12.6 mi
- Canoe the Caney - Satellite Location: 15.0 mi
- TTU Eagle Statue: 19.8 mi
- The Pink Elephant: 20.1 mi
- Big Spring: 21.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Salt Lick Creek Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jones Mountain | ESE 113° | 524 m | 24.3 mi |
| Goodpasture Mountain | ENE 67° | 453 m | 21.9 mi |
| Buck Mountain | ESE 120° | 452 m | 23.9 mi |
| Wilson Mountain | ENE 71° | 446 m | 23.5 mi |
| Algood Mountain | ESE 113° | 444 m | 23.0 mi |
| Buck Mountain | ESE 106° | 432 m | 22.1 mi |
| Pilot Knob | SE 129° | 408 m | 20.9 mi |
| Green Mountain | ESE 107° | 379 m | 20.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:48 | 18:21 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:27 | 19:27 | 20:05 |
| September equinox | 06:32 | 18:08 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 06:52 | 15:53 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 40 | 48 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 77 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 47 | 39 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 5.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gainesboro, 9 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer4 obs
- Great Blue Heron3 obs
- chinkapin oak3 obs
- tree-of-heaven3 obs
- brown-eyed Susan3 obs
- Killdeer2 obs
- Green Heron2 obs
- Mallard2 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/356880542
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