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Minnesota Military Museum

Minnesota Military Museum from directly overhead

Minnesota Military Museum is a museum in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 348 m. The nearest named place is Camp Ripley Environmental Education Center, a museum 0.5 miles away. Great River Road passes 1.0 miles off. 114 named places lie within 25 miles, 2 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Fee: Yes
Step-free access: Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates46.08088, -94.34701

1.0 mi off the Great River Road, National

Around it

114 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves49

Otter Point Wildlife Management Area: 1.6 mi
Ereaux Wildlife Management Area: 5.1 mi
Neitermeier Wildlife Management Area: 6.8 mi
Little Nokasippi River Wildlife Management Area: 7.1 mi
Popple Lake Wildlife Management Area: 8.4 mi

Parks46

Belle Prairie Park: 3.1 mi
Fort Ripley City Park: 6.0 mi
Le Bourget Park: 7.1 mi
Kiwanis Park: 7.2 mi
Pine Grove Zoo: 7.2 mi

Museums5

Camp Ripley Environmental Education Center: 0.5 mi
Minnesota Fishing Museum: 7.3 mi
Charles A Weyerhaeuser Museum: 9.0 mi
Crow Wing County Historical Society and Museum: 20.2 mi
WonderTrek Children's Museum: 21.1 mi

Gardens5

Secret Garden: 20.1 mi
Butterfly Garden and Rain Garden: 20.1 mi
Gazebo Garden: 20.1 mi
G101 & Giving Garden: 20.2 mi
Memorial Garden: 20.2 mi

Picnic sites3

Ghost towns2

Old Crow Wing: 13.6 mi
Philbrook: 22.6 mi

Peaks2

The Mound: 23.2 mi
Eagle Mountain: 23.8 mi

Rest areas1

Brainerd Lakes Area Welcome Center: 12.5 mi

Artworks1

Paul Bunyan Statue: 12.5 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:21	18:50	19:30
June solstice	05:27	20:26	21:13
September equinox	07:05	18:37	19:17
December solstice	07:57	15:45	16:35

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	14	18	31	45	58	68	73	70	62	48	32	19
Precip in	0.8	0.7	1.3	2.3	3.3	4.3	3.7	3.3	3.0	2.4	1.3	0.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Little Falls 2nne, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element node/2174523606

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