Take Flight
Take Flight is an artwork in Georgia, at a modelled elevation of 120 m. Graves Mountain stands 251 m to the west-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Dan "Stork" Roddick Tournament Pavilion, a picnic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Savannah River Scenic Byway passes 6.3 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Material
- stone; metal
How to reach it
- 6.3 mi off the Savannah River Scenic Byway, National
- 27.1 mi off the Warren County-Piedmont Scenic Byway Extension
- 27.3 mi off the Historic Piedmont Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Wildwood Park: 0.2 mi
- Wildwood Park: 1.0 mi
- Keg Creek Wildlife Management Area: 1.0 mi
- Fort Gordon Recreation Area: 2.7 mi
- Mistletoe State Park: 5.1 mi
- Marshall Monument: 7.1 mi
- Blue Star Memorial By-Way: 9.2 mi
- Columbia County Military Memorial Wall: 11.3 mi
- Danny Goodale Memorial Recreation Center: 13.9 mi
- Dooly Spring: 15.5 mi
- Savannah Rapids Love Locks: 15.8 mi
- Tower of Aspiration: 21.5 mi
- And They Went Down Both into the Water: 21.6 mi
- Lucy Craft Laney: 21.6 mi
- The Spirit of Funk: 21.9 mi
- CSRA Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 14.0 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 14.0 mi
- Springfield Baptist Church Prayer Garden: 17.1 mi
- The Terrace: 18.4 mi
- Community Garden Plots: 19.1 mi
- Laurel & Hardy Museum: 16.0 mi
- Lucy Craft Laney Museum: 21.6 mi
- Morris Museum of Art: 21.8 mi
- Woodrow Wilson's Boyhood Home: 22.2 mi
- Augusta Museum of History: 22.3 mi
- Burks Mountain: 4.5 mi
- Mount Carmel: 7.7 mi
- Carey Hill: 10.5 mi
- Graves Mountain: 15.1 mi
- Poverty Hill: 16.8 mi
- Amen Corner: 18.5 mi
- Augusta Cotton Exchange Building: 22.0 mi
- Old Academy of Richmond County Park: 22.4 mi
- Gertrude Herbert Memorial Institute of Art: 22.5 mi
- Augusta Exchange Club Fairgrounds: 22.8 mi
- Christopher D. Spiller Longleaf Pine and Pollinator Trail: 5.9 mi
- Dooly Spring: 15.5 mi
- Hamburg: 22.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Take Flight. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graves Mountain | WNW 296° | 251 m | 15.1 mi |
| Mount Carmel | WSW 249° | 156 m | 7.7 mi |
| Burks Mountain | ESE 115° | 142 m | 4.5 mi |
| Poverty Hill | ESE 110° | 130 m | 16.8 mi |
| Carey Hill | E 80° | 120 m | 10.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:08 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:07 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:55 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 16:47 | 17:25 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 46 | 49 | 56 | 64 | 71 | 78 | 82 | 81 | 75 | 65 | 55 | 48 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Clarks Hill 1 W, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/10554754642
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