Observation Point
Observation Point rises to 417 m in Tennessee. Cross Mountain stands 1,075 m to the west, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Lenoir Museum, a museum 0.3 miles away. Norris Freeway runs past it.
The story
Mountain in Tennessee, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31681707, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 417 m
How to reach it
- On the Norris Freeway, National
- 10.1 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Norris Dam Overlook · 2 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- River Bluff Small Wild Area: 1.1 mi
- Museum of Appalachia: 2.0 mi
- Norris Dam State Park: 3.0 mi
- Pine Hill Community Park: 5.7 mi
- Clinton-Jaycee Park: 7.3 mi
- Reservoir Hill: 0.4 mi
- High Point: 1.1 mi
- Militia Hill: 5.9 mi
- Vowell Mountain: 6.8 mi
- Sun Butte: 7.2 mi
- Rocky Top Veterans Memorial: 4.9 mi
- Ghosts of Convict Miners: 5.4 mi
- Fort Anderson: 5.4 mi
- Fraterville Disaster: 5.4 mi
- Itinerant Miners' Cemetery: 5.4 mi
- Lenoir Museum: 0.3 mi
- Norris Museum: 0.8 mi
- Museum of Appalachia: 1.9 mi
- Coal Creek Miners Museum: 4.9 mi
- Green McAdoo Cultural Center: 8.3 mi
- River Ridge: 3.4 mi
- Longmire Bluff: 7.6 mi
- Monks Corner: 17.2 mi
- Hangover Rock: 18.4 mi
- Kitts Point: 19.3 mi
- Loyston Point Recreation Area: 7.1 mi
- House Mountain Park and State Natural Area: 18.5 mi
- North Cumberland WMA-Sandquist Unit: 19.4 mi
- Royal Blue Wildlife Management Area: 19.7 mi
- Ijams Nature Center: 20.8 mi
- Baxter Gardens: 13.5 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 17.8 mi
- Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum: 18.9 mi
- Cresent Bend Garden: 19.1 mi
- Grow Lab: 19.2 mi
- Norris Dam Visitor Center: 1.5 mi
- Aspire: 8.7 mi
- Abandoned Train: 17.9 mi
- Knox Selfie Lab: 18.6 mi
- Ramsey House Plantation: 21.7 mi
- Love's Creek Spring: 17.5 mi
- Herron Spring: 22.7 mi
- Massengil Spring: 23.6 mi
- Strong rock spring: 24.0 mi
- Alex Haley Statue: 18.9 mi
- Torchbearer Statue: 19.4 mi
- Pat Summitt Statue: 19.6 mi
- Emory Gap Falls: 22.8 mi
- Debord Falls: 23.3 mi
- Boyd Hollow Falls: 23.7 mi
- Loyston: 7.8 mi
- Fork Mountain: 20.3 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 24.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.6 miles of Observation Point. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Mountain | W 265° | 1,075 m | 9.0 mi |
| The Flag Pole | W 265° | 1,075 m | 9.0 mi |
| Redoak Mountain | W 260° | 1,027 m | 10.3 mi |
| Buffalo Mountain | WSW 256° | 1,008 m | 13.7 mi |
| Hurricane Mountain | WNW 293° | 1,007 m | 12.3 mi |
| Pilot Mountain | WSW 249° | 993 m | 11.9 mi |
| Burge Mountain | W 264° | 993 m | 18.5 mi |
| Patterson Mountain | WSW 251° | 984 m | 16.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:14 | 19:48 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:19 | 20:58 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 19:01 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 07:44 | 16:46 | 17:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 39 | 47 | 56 | 64 | 71 | 74 | 74 | 68 | 57 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 5.1 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 5.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norris, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1296227 — Observation Point, Anderson County, Tennessee.
OpenStreetMap element node/356825030
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