Willow Grove Recreation Area
Willow Grove Recreation Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 214 m. Alpine Mountain stands 574 m to the south-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Accordion Bluff, a cliff 1.0 miles away. Cumberland Historic Byway passes 7.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 214 m
How to reach it
- 7.3 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
- 11.9 mi off the Cumberland Cultural Heritage Highway
- 15.7 mi off the Cordell Hull Highway
Named places within 25 miles
- Grogan Hill: 3.5 mi
- Chowning Knob: 3.9 mi
- Skull Bluff: 6.7 mi
- Little Knob: 6.9 mi
- Pilot Knob: 7.0 mi
- Lillydale Recreation Area: 2.8 mi
- Dale Hollow Lake State Resort Park: 5.0 mi
- Pleasant Grove Recreation Area: 6.2 mi
- Dale Hollow Dam Recreation Area: 7.0 mi
- Cove Creek Recreation Area: 7.9 mi
- Accordion Bluff: 1.0 mi
- Knob Creek Bluff: 11.4 mi
- Seven Sisters Bluff: 14.9 mi
- Wpa Bluff: 16.8 mi
- Stephens Point: 18.2 mi
- Star Point Marina: 5.5 mi
- Eagle Cove Marina: 6.5 mi
- Wisdom Marina: 8.4 mi
- Wolf River Marina: 8.6 mi
- launch site for kayak: 10.8 mi
- Wash Morgan Falls: 20.6 mi
- Upper Waterloo Falls: 20.7 mi
- Waterloo Falls: 20.8 mi
- Handcock Falls: 21.6 mi
- Savannah Falls: 23.8 mi
- Clay County Museum: 9.3 mi
- Overton County Museum: 14.1 mi
- Monroe County Historical Society Museum: 20.7 mi
- Alvin C York Home: 21.6 mi
- Mud Camp Creek Wildlife Management Area: 15.9 mi
- Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery Visitor And Environmental Education Center: 22.7 mi
- Olympus: 9.0 mi
- Standing Stone State Park: 14.1 mi
- Sgt. Alvin C. York Memorial: 21.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.4 miles of Willow Grove Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Mountain | SSE 158° | 574 m | 16.7 mi |
| Gullet Mountain | SSE 163° | 566 m | 16.3 mi |
| Egypt Knob | SSE 147° | 554 m | 19.3 mi |
| King Mountain | SE 135° | 541 m | 17.7 mi |
| Golman Mountain | E 90° | 536 m | 17.9 mi |
| Buzzards Roost | ESE 113° | 535 m | 20.4 mi |
| Pilot Knob | SSE 152° | 534 m | 12.8 mi |
| Threet Mountain | SE 146° | 533 m | 18.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:46 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 19:25 | 20:04 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:06 | 18:40 |
| December solstice | 06:51 | 15:50 | 16:30 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 40 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 76 | 74 | 69 | 58 | 47 | 40 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 5.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Byrdstown, 12 mi away.
- Mallard4 obs
- Asian Clam4 obs
- Eastern Fence Lizard3 obs
- Fowler's Toad3 obs
- Northern Map Turtle2 obs
- eastern redcedar2 obs
- American Coot1 obs
- Pacific Loon1 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/356897689
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