Nature reserve · Indiana

Asherwood

Asherwood from directly overhead

Asherwood is a nature reserve in Indiana, at a modelled elevation of 219 m. Morgan Hill stands 205 m to the west, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Frances Slocum State Recreation Area, a park 1.9 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: ACRES Land Trust
Access: Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.74182, -85.92553

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks

Frances Slocum State Recreation Area: 1.9 mi
Miami State Recreation Area: 2.8 mi
Wabash Southside Fire Station: 5.8 mi
John Drook Memorial Bike and Skate Park: 6.4 mi
Pearson Mill State Recreation Area: 6.4 mi

Historic sites35

Wabash Bicentennial: 6.1 mi
Browns of Wabash: 6.4 mi
Old Wabash Jr. High Site: 6.6 mi
Sailor: 6.7 mi
Sentry Soilder: 6.7 mi

Artworks28

Turtle Sundae: 6.9 mi
Key Way: 7.0 mi
Yellow Chair: 11.1 mi
Excelerator: 20.6 mi
Willie the Whale: 21.1 mi

Museums18

International Circus Hall of Fame: 5.0 mi
Wabash County Historical Museum: 6.7 mi
Miami County Museum: 7.6 mi
Circus City Festival Museum: 7.7 mi
Grissom Air Museum: 11.9 mi

Nature reserves12

Seven Pillars Nature Preserve: 4.1 mi
Eel River Wildlife Management Area: 9.3 mi
Walter H. and E. Marie Myers Nature Preserve on Flowers Creek: 9.8 mi
Mary Thornton Nature Preserve: 12.1 mi
Laketon Bog Nature Preserve: 17.2 mi

Ghost towns12

Snow Hill: 6.8 mi
Brownell: 7.2 mi
Stringtown: 9.6 mi
Paw Paw: 9.9 mi
Cary: 10.3 mi

Attractions11

Mark Honeywell - Memorial: 6.5 mi
Lonely Red Caboose: 6.7 mi
Charley Creek Garden Maze: 7.0 mi
Grumman F-14B Tomcat: 11.8 mi
McDonnell F-101B Voodoo: 11.8 mi

Gardens6

Butterfly Garden: 6.9 mi
Garden of Valor: 8.3 mi
Peru Garden Club: 9.0 mi
Friends of the Gardens: 17.4 mi
The Gladdys Muir Peace Garden: 20.4 mi

Waterfalls2

Charley Creek Falls: 6.5 mi
Charley Creek Falls: 6.5 mi

Cliffs1

Cliffs of the Seven Double Pillars: 3.7 mi

Peaks1

Morgan Hill: 22.0 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Morgan Hill	W 267°	205 m	22.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:48	19:20	19:56
June solstice	06:13	20:38	21:19
September equinox	07:32	19:07	19:43
December solstice	08:05	16:36	17:20

Local time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	26	29	39	51	62	71	74	72	66	54	42	31
Precip in	2.4	2.2	2.6	3.5	4.4	4.9	4.6	4.2	3.2	3.1	2.9	2.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wabash, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element way/1190846622

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