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Float

Float from directly overhead

Float is an artwork in Wisconsin, at a modelled elevation of 208 m. The nearest named place is Milwaukee, a artwork 0.1 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Built: 1990

Getting there

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Coordinates43.07868, -87.88222

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks

Milwaukee: 0.1 mi
Pounce: 0.1 mi
Three Bronze Discs: 0.2 mi
Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology: 0.2 mi
Polyphony: 0.3 mi

Historic sites

Lapham Memorial: 0.2 mi
Stinky Timbers: 0.7 mi
Mary E. Spence Memorial: 0.8 mi
On Land and On Water: 0.9 mi
Brigadier General Erastus B. Wolcott: 1.0 mi

Parks

Menlo Boulevard Park: 0.4 mi
River Park: 0.5 mi
Cambridge Woods Park: 0.6 mi
Hubbard Park: 0.6 mi
Newberry Boulevard Park: 0.6 mi

Attractions

Summer Soulstice Music Festival: 1.3 mi
Juneteenth Day: 1.7 mi
Skyline Music: 1.8 mi
Sprecher Brewery: 2.4 mi
AJ Bombers Chairs: 2.6 mi

Nature reserves50

Downer Woods: 0.1 mi
Shorewood Nature Conservancy: 0.7 mi
Lakeshore State Park: 3.2 mi
Indian Prairie Nature Preserve: 3.8 mi
Sidney Woodlands Preserve: 4.5 mi

Museums35

Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum: 0.2 mi
America’s Black Holocaust Museum: 2.1 mi
Jewish Museum Milwaukee: 2.2 mi
Betty Brinn Children's Museum: 2.9 mi
Discovery World Science + Technology Center: 3.0 mi

Gardens31

Picnic sites31

Picnic Area 2: 0.8 mi
Picnic Area 5: 0.9 mi
Picnic Area 1: 2.5 mi
Picnic Area 2: 2.6 mi
Picnic Area 1: 6.0 mi

Beaches8

Bradford Beach: 1.2 mi
McKinley Beach: 1.7 mi
Pebble Beach: 3.3 mi
Private Beach: 8.5 mi
Grant Park Beach: 11.6 mi

Lighthouses5

North Point Lighthouse: 1.1 mi
North Point Lighthouse: 1.1 mi
Port Washington Breakwater Light: 21.2 mi
Port Washington Light Station: 21.6 mi
Fog Signal Building: 21.6 mi

Ghost towns4

Root Creek: 9.5 mi
Brookfield Center: 13.3 mi
Raymond Center: 20.3 mi
Denoon: 21.6 mi

Springs2

Silurian Spring: 17.8 mi
Hygeia Spring: 21.3 mi

Peaks1

Mount Bayside: 7.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	06:56	18:26	19:04
June solstice	05:13	19:52	20:35
September equinox	06:39	18:13	18:51
December solstice	07:21	15:34	16:20

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	23	26	36	47	59	69	74	72	65	52	39	28
Precip in	2.2	2.1	2.5	3.7	4.3	5.0	3.7	4.3	3.7	3.1	2.3	2.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — West Allis, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Wikipedia Wikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/4301459244

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