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Running Free

Running Free from directly overhead

Running Free is an artwork in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 14 m. Mount Defiance stands 1,504 m to the east, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Bonneville Fish Hatchery, a attraction 0.1 miles away. JCT CROSSING OF GIBBONS CREEK VIC WASHOUGAL TO JCT PLYMOUTH INDUSTRIAL RD passes 0.8 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Material
metal
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates45.63380, -121.95632

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Tanner Creek Recreation Area: 0.2 mi
  • Robins Island Recreation Area: 0.3 mi
  • Navigation Lock Visitor Center: 0.4 mi
  • Fort Cascades Trail: 0.6 mi
  • Bradford Island Fishing Area: 0.7 mi
Historic sites
Waterfalls
Peaks
  • Munra Point: 0.8 mi
  • Wauna Point: 1.3 mi
  • Wauneka Point: 1.7 mi
  • Aldrich Butte: 1.8 mi
  • Little Hamilton Mountain: 2.6 mi
Springs: 37
  • East Spring: 5.4 mi
  • Tanner Spring: 5.8 mi
  • Teakettle Spring: 5.8 mi
  • Big Cedar Spring: 6.5 mi
  • Big Cedar Spring: 6.5 mi
Artworks: 35
  • Quaytskin: 20.4 mi
  • Bald Eagle: 20.8 mi
  • Reflections of a Cultural Landscape: 21.4 mi
  • Hood River Housing: 21.4 mi
  • Devoted Passion: 21.6 mi
Nature reserves: 24
Cliffs: 18
  • Red Bluffs: 4.8 mi
  • Red Bluffs: 5.0 mi
  • Red Bluffs: 5.3 mi
  • Waespe Point: 7.0 mi
  • Cape Horn: 12.5 mi
Attractions: 13
Gardens: 13
  • Community Garden: 5.4 mi
  • Rose Garden Labyrinth: 16.4 mi
  • Westside Community Garden: 20.9 mi
  • Scott Johnson Community Garden: 21.2 mi
  • Thomsen Orchard Community Garden: 22.3 mi
Museums: 10
Beaches: 9
  • Home Valley Beach: 10.0 mi
  • Cottonwood Beach: 19.1 mi
  • Sandy Swimming Hole: 20.1 mi
  • Sandy River Beach: 21.5 mi
  • Windboarding Beachhead: 21.9 mi
Picnic sites: 5
Ghost towns: 3
Natural arches: 1
  • Ed's Trail Arch: 16.1 mi
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.6 miles of Running Free. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount DefianceE 85°1,504 m11.4 mi
Indian MountainSE 134°1,491 m8.5 mi
Green Point MountainE 94°1,443.8 m9.0 mi
Buck PeakSSE 153°1,443 m10.4 mi
Chinidere MountainESE 115°1,416 m7.7 mi
Preachers PeakSSE 152°1,389 m12.6 mi
Tomlike MountainESE 103°1,387 m7.7 mi
Table MountainSSE 159°1,383.8 m8.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4119:20
June solstice05:1920:1621:01
September equinox06:5618:2819:07
December solstice07:4615:3716:27

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394146515762686964554539
Precip in11.38.79.16.54.13.20.60.92.67.312.513.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bonneville DAM, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/887653813

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