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Totem Pole

Totem Pole from directly overhead

Totem Pole is an artwork in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 588 m. Mount Spokane stands 1,784 m to the northeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Westminster Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. JCT SR 2 MT SPOKANE PARK DR TO JCT ENTRANCE MT SPOKANE STATE PARK passes 3.8 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Material
wood
Getting there

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Coordinates47.75438, -117.41946
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Northwoods Park: 0.7 mi
  • Holmberg Park: 0.7 mi
  • Countryside Home Residential Park: 0.9 mi
  • Hill N' Dale Rotary Park: 1.2 mi
  • Camelot Park: 1.3 mi
Peaks
  • Dart Hill: 2.0 mi
  • Rattlesnake Hill: 2.2 mi
  • Lockhart Hill: 2.8 mi
  • Little Baldy: 5.3 mi
  • Beacon Hill: 5.7 mi
Artworks: 42
Nature reserves: 29
  • Holmberg Conservation Area: 0.6 mi
  • Austin Ravine Conservation Area: 2.2 mi
  • Haynes Estate Conservation Area: 3.0 mi
  • Meadowglen Conservation Area: 3.5 mi
  • Wyakin Park: 3.7 mi
Historic sites: 26
  • Veterans Memorial: 0.2 mi
  • Father Joseph M. Cataldo: 4.5 mi
  • Chief Spokane Monument: 4.8 mi
  • Gordon farm water wheel: 5.6 mi
  • Peavine Jimmy hayshed: 5.7 mi
Attractions: 20
Gardens: 19
Cliffs: 17
  • Pine Bluff: 6.1 mi
  • Pine Bluff: 6.1 mi
  • Pine Bluff: 6.1 mi
  • Pine Bluff: 6.2 mi
  • Pine Bluff: 6.2 mi
Museums: 14
Waterfalls: 7
  • Upper Falls: 6.3 mi
  • Upper Falls: 6.3 mi
  • Mystic Falls: 7.9 mi
  • Liberty Creek Falls: 20.5 mi
  • Chamokane Falls: 21.7 mi
Springs: 5
  • Griffith Spring: 2.0 mi
  • Goldback Spring: 9.8 mi
  • Mirabeau Springs: 10.4 mi
  • Big Springs: 17.7 mi
  • well 2520: 20.9 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Bald Knob Picnic Area: 18.0 mi
  • Big Spring Picnic Area: 18.1 mi
  • Long Lake Dam Picnic Area: 20.6 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Boulder Beach: 6.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.0 miles of Totem Pole. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount SpokaneNE 51°1,784 m18.3 mi
Mount Kit CarsonNE 49°1,600 m17.0 mi
Mica PeakESE 114°1,598 m22.0 mi
Beauty MountainNE 50°1,587 m17.7 mi
Mica PeakSE 128°1,586 m20.1 mi
Quartz MountainENE 60°1,572 m18.1 mi
Bald KnobNE 52°1,557 m18.0 mi
Horse MountainENE 60°1,552 m18.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2219:02
June solstice04:5220:0420:52
September equinox06:3718:0918:49
December solstice07:3715:0716:01

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323542485763727061493831
Precip in2.01.31.81.51.71.50.70.50.71.52.02.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Spokane Felts FLD, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/11232824628

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