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Flaming Geyser Natural Area

Flaming Geyser Natural Area from directly overhead

Flaming Geyser Natural Area is a nature reserve in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 62 m. Bearhead Mountain stands 1,825 m to the south-southeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Remote Control Airfield, a attraction 0.3 miles away. Chinook Scenic Byway passes 5.9 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
King County Parks
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.27862, -122.04148

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Attractions
  • Remote Control Airfield: 0.3 mi
  • Franklin Ghost Town: 4.1 mi
  • Lake Wilderness Lodge: 6.9 mi
  • Petroglyph: 7.4 mi
  • Fright Factory Haunted House: 8.0 mi
Parks
  • Whitney Bridge Park: 0.6 mi
  • Gomer Evans Jr. Memorial Park: 2.6 mi
  • Rainier View Neighborhood Park: 2.6 mi
  • City of Black Diamond Park: 2.8 mi
  • Bass Lake Boat Launch: 2.9 mi
Nature reserves
  • Metzler Park: 2.3 mi
  • Covington Natural Area: 4.3 mi
  • Stonequarry Creek Natural Area: 4.6 mi
  • Crow Marsh Natural Area: 4.6 mi
  • Fell Hill Park: 4.7 mi
Historic sites
Gardens
Peaks
  • Stanridge Hill: 4.0 mi
  • Fell Hill: 4.8 mi
  • Haystack: 5.1 mi
  • Baldy Hill: 6.7 mi
  • Enumclaw Mountain: 7.0 mi
Artworks
  • Canoe: 4.4 mi
  • Fish Wall: 5.0 mi
  • Foal: 5.8 mi
  • Elk on the Trail: 6.2 mi
  • The Great Outdoors: 6.3 mi
Museums: 50
  • Black Diamond Historical Museum: 2.6 mi
  • Enumclaw Plateau Historical Society Museum: 5.5 mi
  • Fire Engine Museum: 7.1 mi
  • Gibbon Store - Maple Valley Historical Society Museum: 7.1 mi
  • Foothills Historical Society: 7.9 mi
Picnic sites: 38
  • Site #7: 6.7 mi
  • Site #8: 6.7 mi
  • Site #6: 6.7 mi
  • Site #5: 6.7 mi
  • Site #4: 6.7 mi
Beaches: 25
  • Sex Cove: 8.1 mi
  • Waterfront: 11.7 mi
  • Dash Point State Park Beach: 17.5 mi
  • Kennydale Beach: 18.6 mi
  • Tibbetts Beach: 19.3 mi
Waterfalls: 17
  • Victor Falls: 11.2 mi
  • Fifteenmile Waterfall: 14.3 mi
  • Doughty Falls: 17.0 mi
  • Far Country Falls: 17.2 mi
  • Coal Creek Falls: 17.4 mi
Ghost towns: 14
Lighthouses: 11
Cliffs: 6
Springs: 3
  • Maplewood Spring: 14.8 mi
  • Canyon Spring: 16.3 mi
  • Duryea Roadside Hidden Spring: 21.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.6 miles of Flaming Geyser Natural Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bearhead MountainSSE 149°1,825 m20.6 mi
Pitcher MountainSSE 152°1,772 m18.8 mi
Old Baldy MountainSSE 158°1,761 m19.4 mi
Little Old BaldySSE 158°1,683 m19.4 mi
Frog MountainSE 139°1,571 m20.6 mi
Greenway MountainENE 62°1,356 m19.1 mi
Mount WashingtonENE 57°1,346 m18.9 mi
Change PeakENE 58°1,317 m19.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4119:21
June solstice05:1320:2121:09
September equinox06:5618:2719:08
December solstice07:5315:2916:21

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394144495559646459504338
Precip in8.05.46.25.53.93.11.31.62.85.88.57.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Landsburg, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1490422103

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