Buck Knob
Buck Knob rises to 595 m in Tennessee. Ross Mountain stands 715 m to the west-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is North Chick Corridor, a nature reserve 0.8 miles away. Sequatchie Valley Scenic Byway passes 8.6 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States.
Wikidata Q31664230, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 595 m
How to reach it
- 8.6 mi off the Sequatchie Valley Scenic Byway, National
- 12.5 mi off the Lookout Mountain Parkway
- 28.2 mi off the Cohutta-Chattahoochee Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Umbrella Rock · 14 mi
- Ropers Rock · 14 mi
- Point Park Tour Stop #4 - Western Overlook & Wauhatchie · 14 mi
- Point Park Tour Stop #2 - Parrott Gun Overlook · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mining Ruins: 5.2 mi
- Judge M.M. Allison: 6.2 mi
- Hamilton Memorial Gardens: 7.0 mi
- Site #1 - Fibrothers Mine: 9.1 mi
- Site #2 - Ore Car Path: 9.2 mi
- The Hellican: 1.8 mi
- The Horseshoe: 1.9 mi
- Mailbox Hill: 4.3 mi
- Round Knob: 4.5 mi
- Barker Pounds: 5.1 mi
- The Pumpkin Patch: 4.0 mi
- Andy Anderton Park: 4.8 mi
- Walden's Ridge Park: 4.9 mi
- Signal Mountain Boy Scout Park: 6.0 mi
- Briar Park: 6.1 mi
- Falling Water Falls 110: 3.0 mi
- Mystery Falls 8: 3.0 mi
- Vortex Falls: 3.9 mi
- Power Line Falls 140: 5.1 mi
- Clear Branch Falls 40: 5.2 mi
- Cumberland Escarpment: 3.7 mi
- Edwards Point: 6.1 mi
- Wilder Point: 6.7 mi
- Signal Point: 6.7 mi
- James Point: 7.0 mi
- Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center: 10.8 mi
- Houston Museum of Decorative Arts: 10.9 mi
- Creative Discovery Museum: 11.0 mi
- Siskin Museum of Religious Artifacts: 11.3 mi
- Bessie Smith Cultural Center and Chattanooga African American Museum: 11.6 mi
- North Chick Corridor: 0.8 mi
- Cartter Patten Easement: 3.4 mi
- North Chickamauga Creek Wildlife Management Area - Williams Unit: 6.1 mi
- North Chickamauga Creek Wildlife Management Area - Sutton Unit: 7.3 mi
- TVA Big Ridge Small Wild Area: 9.1 mi
- Woodland Tiger: 10.2 mi
- In Town Gallery: 10.4 mi
- Shakespeare: 10.5 mi
- The Rhino: 10.5 mi
- Ruth Holmberg Memorial: 10.9 mi
- rain garden: 6.2 mi
- Blue Cross Garden: 11.0 mi
- Blue Cross Orchard Garden: 11.1 mi
- Wild Ones Pollinator Garden: 14.1 mi
- Jo Lawrence Memorial Garden: 16.4 mi
- Burnt Cabin Springhouse: 6.1 mi
- Obar Spring: 13.7 mi
- Straight Spring: 16.3 mi
- Pryor Cave Spring: 18.3 mi
- Taylor Spring: 22.7 mi
- Chickamauga Dam Beach: 9.8 mi
- Chester Frost Park Beach: 10.1 mi
- Booker T. Washington Park Beach: 11.0 mi
- Harrison Bay Park Beach: 11.8 mi
- Saddleback Platform: 11.0 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 18.2 mi
- Georgia Visitor Information Center - I 75 South: 20.0 mi
- Picnic Grove: 12.1 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 17.1 mi
- Foster Falls Picnic Area: 19.7 mi
- Natural Bridge: 9.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.5 miles of Buck Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ross Mountain | WNW 303° | 715 m | 17.7 mi |
| Bunker Hill | NW 315° | 703 m | 14.3 mi |
| Lockhart Hill | NNW 333° | 694 m | 19.1 mi |
| Price Mountain | NNW 330° | 689 m | 19.2 mi |
| Flat Mountain | NNW 331° | 684 m | 16.1 mi |
| Wolfpen Mountain | NNW 337° | 664 m | 20.0 mi |
| Stocker Hill | WNW 299° | 654 m | 19.8 mi |
| Black Mountain | NNW 338° | 649 m | 22.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:46 | 18:20 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 05:28 | 19:22 | 20:00 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:06 | 18:40 |
| December solstice | 06:47 | 15:54 | 16:34 |
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 | 38 | 41 | 49 | 59 | 66 | 73 | 77 | 76 | 69 | 59 | 49 | 41 |
| Precip in | 6.3 | 5.0 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 4.8 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 5.0 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 6.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Soddy Daisy-mowbray MTN, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356790786
Day trips start here
- Chattanooga · 12 mi
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