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Suggs Creek Public Use Area

Suggs Creek Public Use Area from directly overhead

Suggs Creek Public Use Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 154 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the south-southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Vivrett Creek Public Use Area, a park 0.6 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 295 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
154 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.13256, -86.54638

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Historic sites: 42
Museums: 42
Artworks: 21
  • Helicopter Distature Statue: 7.9 mi
  • Jesus Statue: 11.6 mi
  • Wedgehill Market -Mixtape: Memories: 12.4 mi
  • RONE: 12.6 mi
  • Bending Normal: 12.6 mi
Attractions: 20
Cliffs: 12
Gardens: 10
  • Cane Ridge Community Garden: 10.4 mi
  • Woodbine Community Garden: 11.1 mi
  • Dixon L Merritt Native Plant Garden: 12.8 mi
  • Sunken Garden: 15.0 mi
  • Cheekwood: 18.6 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Seven Points Picnic Area: 1.1 mi
  • East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 11.8 mi
  • Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 12.8 mi
  • Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 13.4 mi
  • Hendersonville Greenway Trail Head: 13.6 mi
Beaches: 2
Ghost towns: 2
Lighthouses: 1
  • Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 9.9 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • West Meade Waterfall: 20.6 mi
Springs: 1
  • Maney Spring: 21.2 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.8 miles of Suggs Creek Public Use Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sumner KnobSSW 194°370 m17.9 mi
ButeomontSSW 209°368.8 m17.6 mi
Jenkins HillSSW 206°367 m16.6 mi
Polk HillSSW 202°366 m16.2 mi
Morton KnobSSW 205°365 m16.1 mi
Grandfather KnobESE 123°363 m18.7 mi
Pleasant Hill KnobSW 215°361 m17.1 mi
Pilot KnobE 95°357 m14.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2418:58
June solstice05:3019:2920:07
September equinox06:3518:1118:45
December solstice06:5415:5616:36

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394250606877807973615042
Precip in4.14.44.44.75.14.34.43.73.93.33.84.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nashville Berry FLD, 8 mi away.

  • Streamside Salamander16 obs
  • Fowler's Toad16 obs
  • Eastern Fence Lizard12 obs
  • Horned Grebe10 obs
  • Great Blue Heron9 obs
  • Cedar Gladecress9 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail6 obs
  • limestone glade milkvetch6 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/356879635

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