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Brown County State Park

Brown County State Park from directly overhead

Brown County State Park is a nature reserve in Indiana, at a modelled elevation of 304 m. Weed Patch Hill stands 322 m to the northeast, 1.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Interpretive Garden, a garden 0.3 miles away. Indiana's Historic Pathways passes 18 miles off. 59 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Built
1929
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Indiana Department of Natural Resources

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.14949, -86.23419

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Brown County State Park: 3.0 mi
  • Gnaw Bone Camp: 3.1 mi
  • T.C. Steele State Historic Site: 6.3 mi
  • Camp Christina: 7.4 mi
  • North Fork State Wildlife Refuge: 9.1 mi
Artworks
  • Story Monument: 3.6 mi
  • Stone Head: 4.3 mi
  • Quintin G. Noblitt (1882-1954): 9.7 mi
  • Growing Through the Seasons: 14.2 mi
  • Peau Rouge Indiana: 15.2 mi
Peaks: 59
Nature reserves: 36
Historic sites: 21
Museums: 16
Attractions: 8
  • Monroe Convention Center: 16.2 mi
  • Upland Brewing Company: 16.3 mi
  • Dam Overlook Platform: 17.9 mi
  • Shirley Springs Cave: 19.2 mi
  • Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park: 19.2 mi
Gardens: 6
  • Interpretive Garden: 0.3 mi
  • Selma Steele’s garden: 6.1 mi
  • Jesse H. and Beulah Chanley Cox Arboretum: 15.3 mi
  • Wonderlab Garden: 16.2 mi
  • Butler Park Community Garden: 16.7 mi
Cliffs: 5
Picnic sites: 4
  • Picnic Area: 12.5 mi
  • Scoutcraft: 12.6 mi
  • Eagle Quest: 12.7 mi
  • Shady Pines Picnic Area: 15.3 mi
Beaches: 2
Ghost towns: 2
Waterfalls: 1
Covered bridges: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Weed Patch HillNE 36°322 m1.5 mi
Bearwallow HillN 8°313 m7.1 mi
Taylor HillE 79°309 m10.7 mi
Hohen PointSE 133°307.8 m0.6 mi
Hesitation PointN 355°306 m1.4 mi
Patterson HillE 81°299 m10.3 mi
Dowell HillENE 74°294 m10.9 mi
Cooks HillNNW 341°292 m13.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4919:2219:57
June solstice06:2020:3521:15
September equinox07:3319:0819:44
December solstice08:0116:4417:26

Local time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293342536372757467554334
Precip in3.82.93.75.25.45.44.63.43.83.83.93.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bloomington Indiana Univ, 15 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Canadian lousewort89 obs
  • azure bluet81 obs
  • northern maidenhair fern68 obs
  • Christmas fern57 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle56 obs
  • Zebra Swallowtail56 obs
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit53 obs
  • rue anemone53 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/280173685

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