Nature reserve · Minnesota

Lower Rice Wildlife Management Area

Lower Rice Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Lower Rice Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 444 m. Height of Land Lookout stands 611 m to the south-southwest, 6.2 miles off. Great River Road passes 10 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.31111, -95.44261

10.1 mi off the Great River Road, National
17.5 mi off the Lake Country Scenic Byway

Overlooks nearby

Mississippi River Headwaters · 12 mi

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Lower Rice Wildlife Management Area: 0.5 mi
Lower Rice Wildlife Management Area: 1.1 mi
Lower Rice Wildlife Management Area: 1.2 mi
Lower Rice Wildlife Management Area: 1.2 mi
Wapatus Lake Wildlife Management Area: 3.6 mi

Parks19

Roy Lake Park: 5.8 mi
Long Lake Park: 6.4 mi
South Twin Lake Park: 11.7 mi
Bad Medicine Lake Public Water Access Site: 11.8 mi
Little Elbow Lake Park: 11.8 mi

Museums3

Lake Itasca Region Pioneer Farmers: 11.9 mi
Lakeside Museum: 12.3 mi
Clearwater County History Center: 17.3 mi

Historic sites3

Clearwater County Veterans Memorial: 14.7 mi
Helicopter: 22.8 mi
Tank: 22.9 mi

Peaks2

Height of Land Lookout: 6.2 mi
Strawberry Mountain: 7.0 mi

Ghost towns2

Mallard: 8.2 mi
Pinewood: 24.6 mi

Artworks2

Fosston City Mural (old): 23.4 mi
Fosston City Mural (New): 23.4 mi

Picnic sites1

Council Ring: 12.8 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Height of Land Lookout	SSW 208°	611 m	6.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:26	18:54	19:34
June solstice	05:26	20:35	21:23
September equinox	07:09	18:41	19:21
December solstice	08:07	15:42	16:35

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	6	11	24	39	52	62	67	65	56	42	27	14
Precip in	0.8	0.7	1.2	2.0	3.2	4.6	3.5	3.2	3.1	2.9	1.3	1.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Itasca Univ OF Minn, 13 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/31655706

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