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Kansas Landscape Arboretum

Kansas Landscape Arboretum from directly overhead

Kansas Landscape Arboretum is a nature reserve in Kansas, at a modelled elevation of 357 m. Table Mounds stands 456 m to the west-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Clay County Park, a park 1.2 miles away. 29 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
Kansas Landscape Arboretum Inc

How to reach it

Coordinates39.19593, -97.01221

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Clay County Park: 1.2 mi
  • Wakefield Park: 1.2 mi
  • Clayview Public Use Area: 2.4 mi
  • Timber Creek Park: 2.5 mi
  • Fort Riley Recreation Area: 3.1 mi
Peaks: 29
  • Custer Hill: 12.1 mi
  • Harvey Hill: 12.2 mi
  • Four Way Divide: 12.2 mi
  • Randolph Hill: 12.6 mi
  • Macomb Hill: 13.2 mi
Historic sites: 27
  • Magic School: 9.8 mi
  • Buffalo Soldier Memorial: 14.3 mi
  • Jacob Benton Callen Fountain: 15.2 mi
  • Junction City and Geary County Law Enforcement Memorial: 15.2 mi
  • State of Kansas Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 15.2 mi
Museums: 18
  • Arts & Memories Museum: 12.2 mi
  • Clay County Museum: 13.8 mi
  • Kansas Auto Racing Museum: 14.9 mi
  • Geary County Historical Society Museum: 15.0 mi
  • Starcke House Museum: 15.1 mi
Artworks: 12
  • Little Ike Statue: 22.1 mi
  • Dwight David Eisenhower Statue: 22.3 mi
  • Bill Snyder: 22.3 mi
  • Ernie Barrett: 22.3 mi
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Bust: 23.0 mi
Attractions: 10
  • site of old UP Turntable and Roundhouse: 14.7 mi
  • Site of old Union Pacific Engine Shops: 14.8 mi
  • Locomotive 6072: 15.3 mi
  • Abilene Convention & Visitors Bureau: 22.2 mi
  • UPRR Abilene Depot: 22.2 mi
Nature reserves: 8
Cliffs: 6
Gardens: 5
Ghost towns: 3

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Table MoundsWNW 300°456 m16.3 mi
Potato HillWNW 296°445 m16.9 mi
Tobyne HillWNW 304°431 m17.0 mi
Custer HillESE 117°411 m12.1 mi
Four Way DivideESE 121°410 m12.2 mi
Morris HillESE 121°406 m13.5 mi
Twin MoundsNW 314°406 m13.7 mi
Randolph HillESE 114°404 m12.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3219:0519:40
June solstice06:0320:1820:58
September equinox07:1618:5219:27
December solstice07:4516:2717:09

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293344546474797769574333
Precip in0.71.12.03.15.24.84.24.22.82.31.41.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Milford Lake, 10 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1072392537

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