Longmont Museum and Culture Center
Longmont Museum and Culture Center is a museum in Colorado, at a recorded elevation of 1,510 m. Walker Mountain stands 2,682 m to the west, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Lefthand's Compass, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Trail Ridge Road/Beaver Meadow Road passes 27 miles off.
The story
The Longmont Museum & Cultural Center is a municipally-funded museum in Longmont, Colorado. It collects and interprets the history and culture of the St. Vrain Valley in northern Colorado.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1936.
Wikidata Q6674123, matched on coordinates and name (31 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1510 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 27.3 mi off the Trail Ridge Road/Beaver Meadow Road, National
- 28.3 mi off the Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Denver Mountain Parks · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Lefthand's Compass: 0.0 mi
- The Thinker: 1.4 mi
- Listening Stones: 1.8 mi
- Golden Days: 2.7 mi
- Niwot Sculpture Park: 4.8 mi
- Kanemoto Park: 0.5 mi
- Dickens Farm Nature Area: 0.7 mi
- Affolter Park: 0.9 mi
- Left Hand Creek Park: 1.2 mi
- Old Mill Park: 1.3 mi
- Standley Hill: 1.6 mi
- Gun Barrel Hill: 6.6 mi
- Table Top Mountain: 6.8 mi
- Haystack Mountain: 7.0 mi
- Potato Hill: 7.6 mi
- Colliers Hill: 7.5 mi
- Grandview Open Space: 8.0 mi
- Erie Highlands: 8.3 mi
- Bullhead Gulch Open Space: 8.9 mi
- Kneebone Open Space: 9.2 mi
- Fort Junction: 6.5 mi
- old mine cart: 6.9 mi
- Magnus White Memorial: 7.8 mi
- Stone Pillar at Nine Mile: 9.0 mi
- Fort Chambers memorial: 9.0 mi
- VT Pumpkin Patch: 3.5 mi
- Colorado Railbike Adventures: 6.7 mi
- White Rocks: 7.2 mi
- Celestial Seasonings Tasting Room: 8.7 mi
- Celestial Seasonings Tour: 8.7 mi
- The Atoll: 12.4 mi
- Raptor Nesting Site: 14.6 mi
- Front Porch: 15.4 mi
- Eagle Rock: 18.0 mi
- The Amphitheatre: 18.2 mi
- Boulder County Community Garden: 1.7 mi
- Longmont Memorial Rose Garden: 1.9 mi
- Second Start Community Gardens: 2.2 mi
- Second Start Community Garden: 2.2 mi
- Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens: 10.4 mi
- Dougherty Museum: 1.4 mi
- Agricultural Heritage Center: 5.0 mi
- Shelby American Car Museum: 7.7 mi
- WOW! Children's Museum: 10.1 mi
- Miners Museum/Lewis House;Miners Museum: 10.2 mi
- Barbeque: 13.0 mi
- Mount Alto Picnic Area: 19.3 mi
- Cottonwood Picnic Area: 23.4 mi
- Meeker Park Picnic Area: 23.9 mi
- Red Barn Group Picnic Area: 24.7 mi
- Carter Lake Swim Beach: 14.6 mi
- Lake Loveland Swim beach: 18.7 mi
- Heron Cove: 20.9 mi
- Mussel Beach: 21.1 mi
- Willows Landing: 21.3 mi
- Wilson Spring: 20.7 mi
- Crystal Spring: 22.6 mi
- Jacob Spring: 24.4 mi
- Lookout Springs: 24.6 mi
- Boulder Falls: 18.9 mi
- Grouse Hollow Falls: 20.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.8 miles of Longmont Museum and Culture Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walker Mountain | W 259° | 2,682 m | 16.7 mi |
| Bueno Mountain | W 265° | 2,633 m | 16.7 mi |
| Bald Mountain | W 268° | 2,627 m | 16.1 mi |
| Nugget Hill | WSW 256° | 2,609 m | 15.4 mi |
| Fairview Peak | W 267° | 2,600 m | 13.2 mi |
| Bear Peak | SW 219° | 2,578 m | 16.5 mi |
| Bighorn Mountain | WSW 249° | 2,555 m | 16.3 mi |
| Golden Age Hill | W 264° | 2,551 m | 14.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:37 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 19:53 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:23 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:55 | 16:39 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 32 | 42 | 48 | 57 | 67 | 73 | 71 | 63 | 50 | 39 | 30 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Longmont 2 ESE, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/514853198
Day trips start here
- Boulder · 13 mi
- Arvada · 24 mi
- Estes Park · 27 mi
- Golden · 28 mi
- Denver · 29 mi
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