Park · Tennessee
University Park
University Park is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 71 m. The nearest named place is Gooch Park, a park 0.3 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 165 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 71 m
How to reach it
Coordinates35.16698, -89.98983
- 164.6 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 3.8 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 14.2 mi off the Mississippi Delta Great River Road
- 41.1 mi off the Crowley's Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Beale Street Landing · 4 mi
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Gooch Park: 0.3 mi
- Dlugach Park: 0.5 mi
- May Street Park: 0.6 mi
- Vollintine Park: 0.7 mi
- Hollywood Park: 1.0 mi
Attractions
- Giant Panda: 1.1 mi
- White Cheeked Gibbon: 1.1 mi
- African Elephant: 1.1 mi
- Sumatran Orangutan: 1.1 mi
- Baboon: 1.1 mi
Historic sites
- Korean War Memorial At Veteran's Plaza: 1.4 mi
- Memory Grove: 1.4 mi
- Margaret Polk Statue: 1.4 mi
- Memphis Belle Memorial: 1.4 mi
- World War II Memorial: 1.4 mi
Museums: 29
- Brooks Museum of Art: 1.6 mi
- Memphis Children's Museum: 3.0 mi
- Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum: 3.0 mi
- Woodruff-Fontaine House: 3.1 mi
- Mallory-Neely House: 3.1 mi
Beaches: 21
- West Junction shore: 14.5 mi
- West Snake Beach: 14.6 mi
- West Potato Beach: 14.8 mi
- West Houston shore beach: 14.8 mi
- East Houston shore beach: 15.3 mi
Artworks: 13
- Big Kids: 1.5 mi
- E. H. Crump Statue: 1.7 mi
- Spinners: 1.7 mi
- St. Jude Thaddeus: 3.2 mi
- Danny Thomas and Child: 3.2 mi
Gardens: 7
- Fisher Memorial Garden: 1.0 mi
- Clara Conway Memorial Gardens: 1.4 mi
- Emeriti Grove: 4.3 mi
- Memphis Botanic Garden: 5.8 mi
- Dixon Gardens: 5.8 mi
Nature reserves: 7
- Audubon Park: 5.8 mi
- Ducks Unlimited Park: 6.1 mi
- Lichterman Nature Center: 8.9 mi
- Ducks Unlimited National Headquarters: 10.6 mi
- Germantown Greenway: 12.5 mi
Cliffs: 3
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Four: 3.9 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Three: 11.3 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Two: 24.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1
- Hopefield: 4.9 mi
Rest areas: 1
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 8.7 mi
Picnic sites: 1
- Memphis Propbuster's Field: 18.1 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:38 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 19:41 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:25 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:13 | 16:52 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 46 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 80 | 83 | 82 | 76 | 65 | 53 | 45 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 4.5 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Memphis Intl AP, 8 mi away.
- American Robin220 obs
- prairie trillium200 obs
- mayapple198 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail192 obs
- Northern Cardinal169 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee169 obs
- Red Buckeye161 obs
- Celandine Poppy161 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 way/275008254
Day trips start here
- Memphis · 4 mi
- Bartlett · 7 mi
- West Memphis · 11 mi
- Marion · 12 mi
- Southaven · 14 mi
- Olive Branch · 17 mi
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