Toqua Recreation Area
Toqua Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 248 m. Big Fodderstack stands 1,321 m to the southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is McGee Carson Peninsula State Historic Park, a park 1.3 miles away. Cherohala Skyway passes 13 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 248 m
How to reach it
- 13.0 mi off the Cherohala Skyway, National
- 16.2 mi off the Indian Lakes Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Stratton Ridge · 18 mi
- Whig Cove · 19 mi
- Haw Knob · 20 mi
- Sunset Overlook · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- McGee Carson Peninsula State Historic Park: 1.3 mi
- Sequoyah Birthplace Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Fort Loudon State Historic Park: 2.1 mi
- Tellico Blockhouse State Historic Site: 2.5 mi
- Notchy Creek Recreation Area: 2.8 mi
- Butler Mountain: 4.4 mi
- Birchfield Mountain: 5.6 mi
- Lynn Carden Mountain: 5.7 mi
- Turkeypen Mountain: 5.8 mi
- Buzzard Roost: 6.3 mi
- Wildcat Falls: 14.4 mi
- Lower Falls: 14.6 mi
- Falls Branch Falls: 16.2 mi
- Baby Falls: 16.5 mi
- Bald River Falls: 16.6 mi
- Crowder Bluff: 4.5 mi
- Turkeypen Bluff: 8.3 mi
- Bolden Knight Bluff: 9.4 mi
- Morton Bluff: 10.6 mi
- Morton Bluff: 10.6 mi
- Fort Loudoun: 2.3 mi
- McGhee: 3.4 mi
- Chota Monument: 3.5 mi
- Tanasi Monument: 3.9 mi
- Morganton: 5.8 mi
- Sequoyah Birthplace Museum: 1.6 mi
- Greenback Heritage Museum: 6.8 mi
- Carmichael Inn Museum: 14.6 mi
- Charles Hall Museum: 14.9 mi
- Lenoir City Museum & Cotton: 16.1 mi
- Greenback Castle: 4.3 mi
- The Lost Sea: 13.5 mi
- Caboose: 14.8 mi
- Tree of Shame: 16.8 mi
- Maryville Greenbelt Amphitheater: 18.1 mi
- Poplar Spring: 13.5 mi
- Hardin Spring: 17.1 mi
- Ebb and Flow Spring: 17.1 mi
- Herron Spring: 22.5 mi
- Huffine Spring: 22.9 mi
- Look Rock Picnic Area: 15.0 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 20.2 mi
- Cades Cove Covered Picnic Shelter: 23.8 mi
- Cades Cove Picnic Area: 23.9 mi
- Cheeyo Park: 8.6 mi
- Calderwood: 12.4 mi
- Sam Houston Statue: 17.8 mi
- Cherohala Skyway restroom/trail head: 21.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.6 miles of Toqua Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Fodderstack | SE 138° | 1,321 m | 14.1 mi |
| Little Fodderstack | SE 128° | 1,137 m | 12.7 mi |
| Flats Mountain | SSE 157° | 1,013 m | 13.6 mi |
| Salt Spring Mountain | SE 131° | 953 m | 10.5 mi |
| Stiffknee Top | SE 125° | 732 m | 12.4 mi |
| Haw Knob Number One | ESE 121° | 721 m | 12.2 mi |
| Revenue Hill | ESE 105° | 693.701 m | 14.6 mi |
| Tallasee Mountain | ESE 118° | 650 m | 12.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:15 | 19:49 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 20:18 | 20:56 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 19:02 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 07:43 | 16:49 | 17:28 |
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 | 39 | 43 | 51 | 59 | 68 | 75 | 78 | 77 | 71 | 59 | 48 | 42 |
| Precip in | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 4.8 | 5.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tellico Plains, 15 mi away.
- bloodroot10 obs
- fan clubmoss10 obs
- striped wintergreen6 obs
- wild comfrey6 obs
- mayapple5 obs
- yellow wakerobin5 obs
- ebony spleenwort5 obs
- Osage-orange4 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/356848591
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