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Hitching Post Project

Hitching Post Project from directly overhead

Hitching Post Project is an artwork in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 155 m. Dixie Peak stands 1,404 m to the east-northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Fairwood Firs Neighborhood Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Mountains to Sound Greenway - I-90 passes 8.5 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
2008
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.43744, -122.14360

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Fairwood Firs Neighborhood Park: 0.3 mi
  • Carriagewood Neighborhood Park: 0.3 mi
  • Fairwood Firs Neighborhood Park: 0.4 mi
  • Addison Park Playground: 0.6 mi
  • Lake Youngs Park: 0.7 mi
Historic sites
Peaks
  • Echo Mountain: 2.0 mi
  • Marshall's Hill: 6.0 mi
  • Long View Peak: 6.0 mi
  • Squak Mountain West Peak: 6.1 mi
  • Wilderness Peak: 6.2 mi
Nature reserves
  • Wetland 14 Natural Area: 2.5 mi
  • Vila Real Wildlife Conservation: 2.6 mi
  • Ricardi Reach Natural Area: 2.6 mi
  • Jones Reach Natural Area: 3.5 mi
  • Larry Phillips Natural Area: 3.7 mi
Artworks
Gardens
  • Native Plant Garden: 3.4 mi
  • Kent East Hill Nursery Display Garden: 4.0 mi
  • Kent Community Garden: 5.6 mi
  • Shade Garden: 6.2 mi
  • Japanese Maple Garden: 6.2 mi
Museums
  • Renton History Museum: 4.1 mi
  • Interim Computer Museum: 4.9 mi
  • Greater Kent Historical Society: 5.3 mi
  • Tukwila Historical Society: 5.9 mi
  • Gibbon Store - Maple Valley Historical Society Museum: 5.9 mi
Attractions
  • Space Needle of Renton: 5.0 mi
  • Trinity Tree Farm: 5.5 mi
  • Lake Wilderness Lodge: 6.4 mi
  • Fantastic Erratic: 7.1 mi
  • Hobart Yellow Submarine: 8.4 mi
Beaches: 56
Picnic sites: 39
  • May Valley Trailhead Picnic Site: 5.2 mi
  • Brandi Carlile Stage: 5.7 mi
  • Site #8: 6.5 mi
  • Site #4: 6.5 mi
  • Site #7: 6.5 mi
Waterfalls: 17
  • Far Country Falls: 5.8 mi
  • Doughty Falls: 5.9 mi
  • Coal Creek Falls: 6.2 mi
  • North Fork Falls: 6.9 mi
  • Fifteenmile Waterfall: 7.9 mi
Lighthouses: 14
Ghost towns: 11
Cliffs: 8
Springs: 4
  • Canyon Spring: 17.7 mi
  • Ravenna Park Sulfur Spring: 17.8 mi
  • Maplewood Spring: 19.9 mi
  • Licton Springs: 20.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.0 miles of Hitching Post Project. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dixie PeakENE 74°1,404 m20.9 mi
Blowdown MountainENE 75°1,400 m20.2 mi
Mount WashingtonE 92°1,346 m20.7 mi
Crater Lake PeakENE 74°1,326 m20.1 mi
Mount Si / q̓əlbc̓ENE 76°1,254 m19.5 mi
Rattlesnake Mountain - Middle PeakE 85°1,004 m15.8 mi
Rattlesnake Mountain - West PeakE 82°994.257 m15.2 mi
East Tiger MountainENE 69°913 m9.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4119:21
June solstice05:1220:2221:10
September equinox06:5618:2819:08
December solstice07:5415:2816:21

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424447525863686863534641
Precip in5.84.04.43.12.11.70.70.91.54.16.25.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kent, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/11232533861

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