Pikes Peak Historical Society Museum
Pikes Peak Historical Society Museum is a museum in Colorado, at a modelled elevation of 2,496 m. Pikes Peak stands 4,302 m to the east-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Florissant Children's Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Gold Belt Tour runs past it.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- On the Gold Belt Tour, National
Overlooks nearby
- The Valley Overlook · 2 mi
- Geologic Overlook · 2 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Florissant Children's Park: 0.5 mi
- Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument: 2.0 mi
- Divide Regional Park: 7.1 mi
- Community Park: 12.3 mi
- Elevenmile State Recreation Area: 12.8 mi
- Twin Rocks: 2.4 mi
- Crystal Peak: 3.5 mi
- Blue Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Granite Hills: 5.7 mi
- Buffalo Rock: 6.0 mi
- The Big Stump: 1.8 mi
- Shale Outcrop: 2.1 mi
- COLORADO WOLF AND WILDLIFE CENTER: 4.2 mi
- Hackett Rock: 9.7 mi
- Longwater Rock: 11.7 mi
- The Tooth: 5.5 mi
- Elevenmile Dome: 5.6 mi
- Windy Point: 17.0 mi
- Quarry Wall: 21.1 mi
- Peg Leg Wall: 21.5 mi
- America the Beautiful: 15.1 mi
- Abandoned cabin: 15.6 mi
- abandoned bull pen: 16.1 mi
- Gresson Ore Sorting: 18.1 mi
- George Eber Duclo: 21.2 mi
- Outlaws & Law Men Jail Museum: 14.9 mi
- Heritage Center: 15.0 mi
- Cripple Creek District Museum: 15.1 mi
- Cripple Creek District Museum: 15.1 mi
- Cripple Creek District Museum: 15.1 mi
- Barksdale Picnic Area: 2.9 mi
- Idlewilde Picnic Area: 9.8 mi
- Lakemoor Community Picnic Area: 14.3 mi
- Lakemoor Community Picnic Area: 14.3 mi
- Crowe Gulch Picnic Ground: 16.3 mi
- Iron Spring: 20.3 mi
- Ute Chief Spring: 20.5 mi
- Twin Spring: 20.6 mi
- Stratton Spring: 20.7 mi
- Wheeler Spring: 20.8 mi
- Back to Kansas: 14.8 mi
- Rita the Rock Planter: 17.4 mi
- Big Red Chair: 21.2 mi
- Henry H. "Hap" Arnold: 21.8 mi
- Honor Wall: 21.9 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 20.2 mi
- Helen Hunt Falls: 23.4 mi
- Hull: 24.7 mi
- Shorty: 24.7 mi
- Bridal Veil: 24.7 mi
- The Labyrinth: 22.1 mi
- Mount Saint Francis Community Garden: 22.4 mi
- The Secret Garden: 24.3 mi
- westside community garden: 24.8 mi
- Mesa Wildlife Preserve: 24.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.1 miles of Pikes Peak Historical Society Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pikes Peak | ESE 119° | 4,302 m | 15.0 mi |
| Little Pikes Peak | ESE 118° | 4,073 m | 14.0 mi |
| Devil's Playground | ESE 115° | 3,984 m | 13.0 mi |
| Sachett Mountain | ESE 121° | 3,837 m | 16.6 mi |
| Sentinel Point | SE 126° | 3,814 m | 12.3 mi |
| Sheep Mountain | SE 130° | 3,780 m | 16.4 mi |
| Thirtynine Mile Mountain | WSW 242° | 3,517 m | 16.3 mi |
| Badger Mountain | WNW 301° | 3,434 m | 14.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:38 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:51 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:25 | 19:00 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:01 | 16:43 |
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 | 22 | 24 | 32 | 38 | 47 | 56 | 60 | 58 | 52 | 41 | 31 | 22 |
| Precip in | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Florissant Fossil Beds, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/1834805033
Day trips start here
- Colorado Springs · 26 mi
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