Trailside Museum of Natural History
Trailside Museum of Natural History is a museum in Nebraska, at a modelled elevation of 1,158 m. Pants Butte stands 1,449 m to the west-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Red Cloud Agency Historical Marker, a park 0.1 miles away. Bridges to Buttes Byway runs past it. 78 named places lie within 25 miles, 30 of them named summits.
The story
museum in a former theatre building in Fort Robinson State Park, three miles west of Crawford, Nebraska
Wikidata Q28937788, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- On the Bridges to Buttes Byway
- 23.3 mi off the Gold Rush Byway
78 named places within 25 miles
- Red Cloud Agency Historical Marker: 0.1 mi
- Post Headquarters Historical Marker: 0.1 mi
- K-9 Training Area Historical Marker: 0.1 mi
- Officers Row Historical Marker: 0.1 mi
- Flagstaff Historical Marker: 0.1 mi
- Red Cloud Buttes: 1.4 mi
- Giants Coffins Butte: 1.5 mi
- Saddle Rock: 1.8 mi
- Lovers Leap Butte: 1.8 mi
- Crow Butte: 6.9 mi
- Fort Robinson History Center: 0.1 mi
- Fort Robinson State Park Museum: 0.2 mi
- Crawford Historical Museum: 3.0 mi
- Sioux County Museum: 21.2 mi
- Dawes County Historical Museum: 24.3 mi
- Prehistoric Prairies Discovery Center: 3.1 mi
- Hudson-Meng Bison Kill Research & Visitor Center: 13.1 mi
- Daemonilix: 23.0 mi
- Split Daemonilix: 23.1 mi
- Crawford School Bell Historical Marker: 3.1 mi
- Fort Laramie - Fort Robinson Trail Historical Marker: 19.5 mi
- Chadron Creek Trading Post Historical Marker: 24.0 mi
- Belmont: 9.8 mi
- West Ash Creek Picnic Area: 11.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Trailside Museum of Natural History. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pants Butte | WNW 287° | 1,449 m | 18.2 mi |
| First Woman Mound | ESE 116° | 1,420 m | 11.7 mi |
| Carnegie Hill | SW 218° | 1,367 m | 21.8 mi |
| Pine Butte | NNW 329° | 1,366 m | 12.7 mi |
| University Hill | SW 218° | 1,359 m | 21.7 mi |
| Roundtop | NNW 331° | 1,346 m | 12.4 mi |
| Red Cloud Buttes | N 6° | 1,308 m | 1.4 mi |
| Crown Butte | E 92° | 1,288 m | 8.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:53 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 15:38 | 16:24 |
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 | 26 | 28 | 38 | 46 | 55 | 66 | 74 | 73 | 62 | 47 | 35 | 27 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — FT Robinson, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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