Penrose Heritage Museum
Penrose Heritage Museum is a museum in Colorado, at a modelled elevation of 1,896 m. Pikes Peak stands 4,302 m to the west-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is World Figure Skating Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. Gold Belt Tour passes 16 miles off.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 16.0 mi off the Gold Belt Tour, National
Overlooks nearby
- Geologic Overlook · 25 mi
- The Valley Overlook · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Harlan Wolfe Park: 0.6 mi
- Boddington Field: 0.7 mi
- Jenkins Park: 0.8 mi
- Skyway Park: 1.1 mi
- Broadmoor Valley Park: 1.4 mi
- Giraffe Feeding Experience: 1.5 mi
- snow leopard: 1.5 mi
- Tiger: 1.6 mi
- Domestic Goats: 1.6 mi
- Continuum — the Julie Penrose Fountain: 2.7 mi
- Mount Cutler: 1.5 mi
- Muscoco Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Mays Peak: 2.6 mi
- The Horns: 2.6 mi
- Mount Buckhorn: 2.9 mi
- Starr Kempf's Kinetic Sculptures: 0.8 mi
- The Epicenter: 2.6 mi
- Trailblazer: 2.8 mi
- Fannie Mae Duncan: 2.9 mi
- Humpty Dumpty: 2.9 mi
- Mountaineer Train Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Welcome to Colorado Springs: 2.9 mi
- Pikes Peak Range Riders Memorial: 3.1 mi
- First Stake Of The Fountain Colony: 3.1 mi
- Spencer Penrose: 3.2 mi
- Shipping Container Farm: 1.5 mi
- Bear Sculpture Garden: 1.5 mi
- Hillside Gardens: 2.8 mi
- Rock Garden: 3.2 mi
- The Secret Garden: 3.3 mi
- Point Sublime: 1.4 mi
- Dakota Hogback: 3.8 mi
- Devils Slide: 5.8 mi
- Windy Point: 9.4 mi
- Corral Bluffs: 14.5 mi
- World Figure Skating Museum: 0.1 mi
- U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum: 2.8 mi
- Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum: 3.0 mi
- Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Museum: 3.2 mi
- Ghost Town Wild West Museum: 3.3 mi
- Turkey Roost Picnic Area: 4.3 mi
- Elk Run Picnic Area: 4.3 mi
- Prairie Skipper Picnic Area: 4.3 mi
- South Spring Cañon Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- South Canyon: 7.0 mi
- Tahama Spring: 3.5 mi
- Seven Minute Spring: 5.6 mi
- Shoshone Spring: 5.8 mi
- Navajo Spring: 5.9 mi
- Soda Spring: 5.9 mi
- Hill: 1.8 mi
- Weimer: 1.8 mi
- Hull: 1.8 mi
- Shorty: 1.8 mi
- Bridal Veil: 1.8 mi
- Concrete Coyote: 2.5 mi
- Promntory Point Open Space: 3.3 mi
- Mesa Open Space: 3.7 mi
- Cheyenne Mountain State Park: 4.3 mi
- Mesa Wildlife Preserve: 4.8 mi
- Lytle: 13.2 mi
- Franceville: 13.7 mi
- Husted: 15.1 mi
- Altman: 15.8 mi
- Gwillimsville: 21.6 mi
- CDOT Rest Area: Pueblo North (Closed): 23.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.1 miles of Penrose Heritage Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pikes Peak | WNW 288° | 4,302 m | 11.0 mi |
| Little Pikes Peak | WNW 289° | 4,073 m | 12.0 mi |
| Devil's Playground | WNW 293° | 3,984 m | 12.9 mi |
| Sachett Mountain | WNW 282° | 3,837 m | 9.6 mi |
| Sentinel Point | WNW 284° | 3,814 m | 14.1 mi |
| Sheep Mountain | W 270° | 3,780 m | 11.0 mi |
| Almagre Mountain | W 269° | 3,768 m | 7.8 mi |
| Mount Rosa | WSW 243° | 3,507 m | 5.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:36 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:49 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:23 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 16:00 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 27 | 33 | 38 | 46 | 56 | 60 | 58 | 53 | 43 | 33 | 26 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ruxton Park, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/6481098686
Day trips start here
- Colorado Springs · 3 mi
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