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Sandhills Museum

Sandhills Museum from directly overhead

Sandhills Museum is a museum in Nebraska, at a recorded elevation of 786 m. Rustlers Roost stands 915 m to the southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Colburn Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Outlaw Trail runs past it. 23 named places lie within 25 miles, 3 of them named summits.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 786 m

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.87781, -100.54500

On the Outlaw Trail
0.7 mi off the Bridges to Buttes Byway

Around it

23 named places within 25 miles

Parks10

Colburn Park: 0.2 mi
Ecology Park: 0.2 mi
Valentine Trailhead Park: 0.5 mi
Valentine City Park: 0.6 mi
Bryan Bridge Historical Marker: 3.3 mi

Nature reserves7

Valentine State Fish Hatchery: 1.5 mi
Borman Bridge State Wildlife Management Area: 2.5 mi
Schlagel Creek State Wildlife Management Area: 11.4 mi
Big Alkali State Wildlife Management Area: 16.8 mi
Ballards Marsh State Wildlife Management Area: 19.6 mi

Peaks3

Frederick Peak: 1.8 mi
Rustlers Roost: 13.5 mi
Flattop: 14.2 mi

Waterfalls2

Smith Falls: 11.6 mi
Snake River Falls: 21.1 mi

Museums1

Cherry County Historical Society Museum: 0.7 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sandhills Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Rustlers Roost	SW 221°	915 m	13.5 mi
Frederick Peak	NE 43°	813 m	1.8 mi
Flattop	ENE 63°	807 m	14.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:46	19:17	19:55
June solstice	06:04	20:42	21:25
September equinox	07:30	19:04	19:41
December solstice	08:11	16:25	17:11

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	24	27	38	47	58	69	76	74	64	49	36	26
Precip in	0.3	0.5	0.9	2.4	3.6	4.0	2.8	2.2	1.7	1.4	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Valentine #1, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/841389864

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