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Whitfield Park

Whitfield Park from directly overhead

Whitfield Park is a park in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 157 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the south-southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Ellington Agricultural Center, a park 0.3 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 299 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates36.06718, -86.73917

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Ellington Agricultural Center: 0.3 mi
  • Sevenmile Park: 0.7 mi
  • Wentworth Caldwell Sr Park: 0.9 mi
  • Seven Mile Creek Greenway - Harding Mall Park: 1.3 mi
  • Crieve Hall Baseball CSX Park: 1.6 mi
Peaks
Historic sites: 43
Artworks: 20
  • Wedgehill Market -Mixtape: Memories: 4.8 mi
  • Jesus Statue: 5.2 mi
  • Life Can Be Sweet: 5.4 mi
  • #educationisnotacrime: 5.4 mi
  • RONE: 5.4 mi
Attractions: 20
Nature reserves: 17
Cliffs: 11
Gardens: 6
Picnic sites: 6
  • Creekside Crossing: 4.0 mi
  • Seven Points Picnic Area: 10.6 mi
  • East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 17.3 mi
  • Hendersonville Greenway Trail Head: 19.8 mi
  • Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 23.2 mi
Beaches: 2
Lighthouses: 1
  • Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 6.8 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • West Meade Waterfall: 9.9 mi
Springs: 1
  • Maney Spring: 24.7 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.6 miles of Whitfield Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sumner KnobSSE 153°370 m14.4 mi
ButeomontS 169°368.8 m11.1 mi
Jenkins HillSSE 162°367 m10.9 mi
Polk HillSSE 156°366 m11.6 mi
Morton KnobSSE 158°365 m10.9 mi
Scales MountainSSE 150°362 m18.4 mi
Pleasant Hill KnobS 174°361 m9.5 mi
McMahan KnobS 178°355 m9.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2518:59
June solstice05:3119:3020:08
September equinox06:3618:1218:45
December solstice06:5515:5716:37

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F404352616977818073625043
Precip in4.04.54.54.75.04.44.23.83.83.43.94.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nashville Intl AP, 4 mi away.

  • Gulf Fritillary73 obs
  • Northern Cardinal56 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee49 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel44 obs
  • Hackberry Emperor43 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle40 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee40 obs
  • Common Snapping Turtle39 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 way/593910099

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