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Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum

Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, a museum in Colorado
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, a museum in ColoradoRyan Frost from Omaha, NE, USA · CC BY 2.0
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, a museum in Colorado
Ryan Frost from Omaha, NE, USA · CC BY 2.0
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, a museum in Colorado
Ryan Frost from Omaha, NE, USA · CC BY 2.0
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, a museum in Colorado
Ryan Frost from Omaha, NE, USA · CC BY 2.0
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, a museum in Colorado
Ryan Frost from Omaha, NE, USA · CC BY 2.0
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, a museum in Colorado
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Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum is a museum in Colorado, at a modelled elevation of 1,644 m. Legault Mountain stands 2,757 m to the west-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Boeing B-52B, a attraction 0.1 miles away. Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway passes 16 miles off.

About

The story

The Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum (WOTR) is located on the former Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, United States. The museum preserves the history of Lowry AFB's operations from 1938 to 1994 in its collections, archives, and research library.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 1994-12-01.

Wikidata Q8025276, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.72097, -104.89557

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Attractions
Artworks
Parks
  • Lowry Reading Garden: 0.2 mi
  • Great Lawn Park: 0.3 mi
  • Jackie Robinson Fields Park: 0.3 mi
  • City of Ulaanbaatar Park: 0.3 mi
  • Great Lawn Park: 0.4 mi
Historic sites
Gardens
Nature reserves
  • Park Hill Park: 4.1 mi
  • Morrison Nature Center: 5.5 mi
  • Native Grasses Restoration Study Area: 5.9 mi
  • The Grove at Commons Park: 6.4 mi
  • Lowell Ponds Wildlife Area: 9.3 mi
Peaks
  • Ruby Hill: 6.5 mi
  • Inspiration Point: 9.8 mi
  • Rebel Hill: 12.6 mi
  • Mount Carbon: 13.7 mi
  • Highlands Point: 14.8 mi
Museums: 56
Picnic sites: 43
  • Good Times: 2.3 mi
  • Picnic Site 1: 3.8 mi
  • Picnic Site 4: 4.2 mi
  • Picnic Site 2: 4.2 mi
  • Picnic Table: 5.2 mi
Beaches: 6
Ghost towns: 4
Cliffs: 4
Waterfalls: 1
  • Lee Gulch: 11.0 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Keyhole Rock: 17.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.0 miles of Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Legault MountainWSW 237°2,757 m23.5 mi
Doublehead MountainWSW 241°2,711 m22.3 mi
Crow HillSW 234°2,638 m23.0 mi
Huebner PeakSW 230°2,633 m23.0 mi
Bear MountainWSW 252°2,630 m22.0 mi
High PeakSW 233°2,611 m22.3 mi
Coal Creek PeakWNW 299°2,594 m24.0 mi
Independence MountainWSW 254°2,539 m22.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0418:3619:12
June solstice05:3319:5120:32
September equinox06:4818:2318:58
December solstice07:1815:5616:39

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323342485869757364514032
Precip in0.50.51.11.72.31.72.11.81.51.00.70.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Denver-stapleton, 3 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/279477073

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