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Puget Creek Natural Area

Puget Creek Natural Area from directly overhead

Puget Creek Natural Area is a nature reserve in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 61 m. Indian Hill stands 167 m to the east-northeast, 3.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Puget Park, a park 0.2 miles away. POINT DEFINANCE TO TAHLEQUAH passes 2.4 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Metro Parks Tacoma

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.27766, -122.48287

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Puget Park: 0.2 mi
  • Dickman Mill Park: 0.6 mi
  • Hamilton Park: 0.7 mi
  • Catherine Ursich Park: 0.7 mi
  • Old Town Park: 0.7 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Artworks
Gardens
  • Proctor Community Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Evergreen Tacoma Community Garden: 2.0 mi
  • Northwest Native Plant Garden: 2.4 mi
  • Point Defiance Rose Garden: 2.5 mi
  • Dahlia Trial Garden: 2.5 mi
Attractions
  • Point Ruston: 1.5 mi
  • Lowland Anoa: 2.5 mi
  • Sumatran Tigers & Waterfall Panorama: 2.5 mi
  • Siamang: 2.5 mi
  • Asian Small-Clawed Otters: 2.5 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Indian Hill: 3.8 mi
  • Kinbee Hill: 5.3 mi
  • Gravel Pit Peak: 6.3 mi
  • Indian Point: 6.5 mi
  • Ford Hill: 7.4 mi
Beaches: 40
  • Salmon Beach: 2.4 mi
  • Owen Beach: 3.2 mi
  • Titlow Beach: 3.7 mi
  • Dash Point State Park Beach: 4.6 mi
  • Sunrise Beach: 5.9 mi
Picnic sites: 36
  • Red Wolf Picnic Area: 2.6 mi
  • Rustic Picnic Area: 2.8 mi
  • Fort Nisqually Picnic Area: 3.0 mi
  • Gig Harbor Picnic Area: 4.1 mi
  • Shelter 2: 4.3 mi
Lighthouses: 11
Cliffs: 11
Springs: 7
  • Garrison Springs: 7.9 mi
  • Ellison Spring: 9.0 mi
  • Duryea Roadside Hidden Spring: 10.4 mi
  • Maplewood Spring: 10.5 mi
  • Clear Creek Springs: 19.4 mi
Ghost towns: 7
Waterfalls: 7
  • Victor Falls: 16.5 mi
  • Nisqually Falls: 22.2 mi
  • Dickerson Falls: 23.5 mi
  • Far Country Falls: 23.6 mi
  • Doughty Falls: 24.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.1 miles of Puget Creek Natural Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Indian HillENE 61°167 m3.8 mi
Kelly HillSSW 200°140 m16.0 mi
Bare HillSSW 209°136 m15.9 mi
Eastman HillS 185°132 m15.6 mi
Folsom HillS 184°130 m15.6 mi
Swift HillSSW 199°130 m16.0 mi
Beal HillSSW 206°128 m15.4 mi
Berger HillS 186°127 m13.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4219:23
June solstice05:1420:2321:11
September equinox06:5718:2919:09
December solstice07:5515:3016:23

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434447525862676762544742
Precip in6.04.04.43.42.01.40.60.81.64.16.56.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tacoma #1, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/23631218

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