McKay Bay Nature Park
McKay Bay Nature Park is a nature reserve in Florida, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. Big Cockroach Mound stands 7 m to the south-southwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is DeSoto Park, a park 0.6 miles away. COURTNEY CAMPBELL passes 7.9 miles off.
How to reach it
- 7.9 mi off the COURTNEY CAMPBELL
- 14.4 mi off the SUNCOAST SCENIC PKWY
- 22.1 mi off the TAMIAMI TRAIL HWY (OBS)
Named places within 25 miles
- DeSoto Park: 0.6 mi
- 18th Avenue Park: 1.2 mi
- Centennial Park: 1.2 mi
- Ybor City Museum State Park: 1.3 mi
- Palm Ave Microforest: 1.5 mi
- 9/11 Fallen Heroes Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Vicente Martinez-Ybor: 1.8 mi
- Gavino Gutierrez: 1.8 mi
- Crosses for the killed TPD officers David Curtis and Jeffrey Kocab: 1.8 mi
- Victoriano Mantiega: 1.8 mi
- Margaritsville at Sea Port: 1.4 mi
- Carnival cruise port: 1.5 mi
- Royal Caribbean cruise port: 1.6 mi
- Florida State Fairgrounds: 2.2 mi
- Asian Gardens: 5.2 mi
- "Untitled": 1.6 mi
- Antonio Maceo: 1.6 mi
- José Martí: 1.6 mi
- La Casa de Pedroso: 1.6 mi
- Solstice: 2.3 mi
- Columbia Centennial Museum: 1.0 mi
- Tampa Baseball Museum: 1.2 mi
- Ybor City Museum: 1.2 mi
- Florida Museum of Photographic Arts: 1.3 mi
- SS American Victory;American Victory Museum: 1.5 mi
- Delaney Creek Preserve: 3.1 mi
- Riverfront Preserve: 6.4 mi
- Diamondback Nature Preserve: 7.3 mi
- Brandon High Nature Preserve: 7.5 mi
- Alafia Scrub Nature Preserve: 8.1 mi
- Palma Ceia Spring: 4.6 mi
- Sulphur Spring: 5.1 mi
- Eureka Spring: 5.9 mi
- Lettuce Lake Spring: 6.3 mi
- Blue Sink: 7.4 mi
- Clara Frye Garden: 2.6 mi
- HCC Food Forest: 5.6 mi
- Monument Park: 5.6 mi
- USF Botanical Garden: 7.4 mi
- Harvest Hope Community Garden: 8.3 mi
- Gardenville Beach: 8.0 mi
- Picnic Island Beach: 10.6 mi
- Picnic Island Beach: 10.7 mi
- Picnic Island Beach: 10.8 mi
- Apollo Beach: 12.5 mi
- Fort Brooke: 2.2 mi
- Weedon Island: 13.3 mi
- Gulf City: 17.2 mi
- Willow: 21.8 mi
- Fort Lonesome: 24.0 mi
- Ben T. Davis Beach: 9.3 mi
- Dude Lake Picnic Area: 19.9 mi
- Gardens Park Picnic Table: 22.5 mi
- Big Cockroach Mound: 19.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of McKay Bay Nature Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Cockroach Mound | SSW 198° | 7 m | 19.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:11 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:35 | 19:55 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:57 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 17:04 | 17:40 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 62 | 65 | 69 | 74 | 80 | 83 | 84 | 84 | 83 | 77 | 70 | 65 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 9.0 | 6.1 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tampa Intl AP, 7 mi away.
- Red Junglefowl228 obs
- Florida Softshell Turtle75 obs
- Brown Anole64 obs
- Common Gallinule43 obs
- Laughing Gull36 obs
- Bumblebee Millipede32 obs
- Little Sea Pill Woodlouse32 obs
- White beggarticks31 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/24005547
Day trips start here
- Tampa · 2 mi
- Saint Petersburg · 18 mi
- Clearwater · 23 mi
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