Thunder Rock Recreation Area
Thunder Rock Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 396 m. Big Frog Mountain stands 1,276 m to the south-southwest, 5.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Peavine Mountain, a peak 2.5 miles away. Ocoee Scenic Byway runs past it.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 396 m
How to reach it
- On the Ocoee Scenic Byway
- 16.6 mi off the Cohutta-Chattahoochee Scenic Byway
- 22.8 mi off the Cherohala Skyway, National
- 25.5 mi off the Waterfall Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Scenic Overlook · 8 mi
- Parksville Lake Viewpoint · 8 mi
- Sugerloaf Viewpoint · 8 mi
- Gazebo Overlook · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Peavine Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Brock Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Panther Knob: 2.9 mi
- Chestnut Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Sheep Top: 3.1 mi
- Tumbling Creek Recreation Area: 4.2 mi
- Ocoee Wildlife Management Area: 5.2 mi
- Parksville Lake Recreation Area: 5.8 mi
- Lost Creek Recreation Area: 6.1 mi
- Ducktown City Park: 6.4 mi
- Big Lost Falls: 4.9 mi
- Rock Creek Falls: 7.2 mi
- Benton Falls: 7.8 mi
- Jacks River Falls 80: 8.7 mi
- Lowry Falls: 10.5 mi
- Georgia-Tennessee Border: 8.8 mi
- Rolling Thunder River Company: 9.2 mi
- Prayer Mountain: 13.6 mi
- Arise and Shine Marker: 13.6 mi
- Fields of the Wood: 13.6 mi
- CSA Soldiers Memorial: 9.0 mi
- Fort Marr Blockhouse: 11.8 mi
- Nancy Ward Tomb: 12.7 mi
- Conasauga Native Americal Wall: 14.2 mi
- Company A: 17.3 mi
- Panther Bluff: 13.5 mi
- White Cliffs: 17.9 mi
- White Cliff: 18.2 mi
- Henegar Bluff: 18.7 mi
- Crowder Bluff: 21.2 mi
- Towee Creek Picnic area: 8.5 mi
- Big Bend Recreation Area: 8.8 mi
- Lake Conasauga Picnic and Swim Site: 17.6 mi
- Cherokee Lake Picnic Area: 18.1 mi
- Parksville Beach: 8.6 mi
- Shady Beach: 9.2 mi
- Shady Beach: 9.2 mi
- Poop Island: 19.7 mi
- L&N Depot Museum: 17.3 mi
- Swift Museum: 22.6 mi
- Museum Center at 5ive Points: 22.7 mi
- Charles Hall Museum: 22.8 mi
- Potatopatch Spring: 17.3 mi
- Cohutta Wildlife Management Area: 18.6 mi
- BSUMC Giving Garden: 23.0 mi
- Due: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.6 miles of Thunder Rock Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Frog Mountain | SSW 206° | 1,276 m | 5.7 mi |
| Chimneytop | SSW 207° | 1,137 m | 4.6 mi |
| Hemp Top | SSW 196° | 1,089 m | 7.4 mi |
| Buckeye Mountain | SSW 209° | 1,074 m | 11.6 mi |
| Signal Pole Hill | E 99° | 1,056 m | 11.4 mi |
| Pack Mountain | E 99° | 1,049 m | 11.4 mi |
| Angelico Mountain | ESE 102° | 1,027 m | 11.4 mi |
| Little Frog Mountain | ENE 70° | 1,017 m | 3.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:43 | 19:17 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:25 | 20:19 | 20:56 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:03 | 19:36 |
| December solstice | 07:43 | 16:51 | 17:31 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 44 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 78 | 78 | 72 | 60 | 49 | 42 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 4.9 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cleveland Fltr PLT, 20 mi away.
- galax18 obs
- mountain laurel16 obs
- bashful wakerobin15 obs
- northern maidenhair fern14 obs
- great rhododendron14 obs
- American sweetgum13 obs
- Christmas fern13 obs
- Carolina sweetshrub12 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/356895457
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