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Buffalo Lake Wildlife Management Area, Southeast Unit

Buffalo Lake Wildlife Management Area, Southeast Unit from directly overhead

Buffalo Lake Wildlife Management Area, Southeast Unit is a nature reserve in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 458 m. Murray County Highest Point stands 588 m to the west-southwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Buffalo Lake Wildlife Management Area, Northwest Unit, a nature reserve 0.8 miles away. 10 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

How to reach it

Coordinates44.07399, -95.56994

Named places within 25 miles

Parks: 31
  • End-O-Line Railroad Park: 4.7 mi
  • Currie Ball Park: 4.7 mi
  • Lake Shetek State Park: 6.6 mi
  • Mays Park: 10.7 mi
  • Rupp Park: 10.8 mi
Peaks: 10
  • Scenic Overlook: 1.6 mi
  • Očhéyadaŋ: 6.7 mi
  • Poverty Hill: 11.1 mi
  • Red Rock Ridge High Point: 14.7 mi
  • Cottonwood County Highest Point: 17.9 mi
Historic sites: 5
Waterfalls: 1
  • Red Rock Falls: 23.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Buffalo Lake Wildlife Management Area, Southeast Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Murray County Highest PointWSW 253°587.8 m22.8 mi
Nobles County Highest PointSW 228°552.4 m23.0 mi
Heron Lake Watershed Highest PointSW 220°546.3 m24.0 mi
Poverty HillW 276°526 m11.1 mi
Cottonwood County Highest PointESE 102°479 m17.9 mi
OčhéyadaŋNW 316°475 m6.7 mi
String Lakes PeakSE 125°473 m24.0 mi
Red Rock Ridge High PointE 93°463 m14.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2618:5719:35
June solstice05:4020:2521:10
September equinox07:1018:4319:22
December solstice07:5516:0016:47

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F141830445868726962483320
Precip in0.60.71.42.94.04.53.53.43.82.31.30.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tracy, 12 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/31657517

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