Nature reserve · Minnesota

Rice Area Sportsmens Club Wildlife Management Area

Rice Area Sportsmens Club Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Rice Area Sportsmens Club Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 344 m. The nearest named place is Coon Lake Marsh Wildlife Management Area, a nature reserve 2.5 miles away. Great River Road passes 9.4 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates45.87617, -94.15129

9.4 mi off the Great River Road, National

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks

Buckman City Ballpark: 3.0 mi
Family Memorial Park: 3.2 mi
Genola City Ball Park: 5.3 mi
Genola Park and Campground: 5.9 mi
Memorial Park: 7.2 mi

Nature reserves40

Coon Lake Marsh Wildlife Management Area: 2.5 mi
Crane Meadows Wildlife Management Area: 3.0 mi
Rice-Skunk Wildlife Management Area, Skunk Lake East Unit: 4.3 mi
Rice-Skunk Wildlife Management Area, Skunk Lake West Unit: 5.0 mi
Rice-Skunk Wildlife Management Area, Platte River 40 Unit: 6.1 mi

Museums7

Charles A Weyerhaeuser Museum: 12.7 mi
Minnesota Fishing Museum: 12.8 mi
Minnesota Military Museum: 17.0 mi
Camp Ripley Environmental Education Center: 17.3 mi
Minnesota Baseball Hall of Fame Museum: 21.7 mi

Attractions4

NASA Apolo Trainging Capsule: 21.3 mi
Stoney Brook Farms: 23.1 mi
Maple Sugar Shack: 23.1 mi
Saint John's Pottery Studio: 23.6 mi

Historic sites4

Veterans Memorial: 21.4 mi
Vietnam War Memorial: 22.1 mi
Dennis M. Thayer: 22.2 mi
Stone Gate: 23.2 mi

Rest areas4

Rum River Rest Area: 23.6 mi
Central Minnesota Rest Area & Travel Information Center: 23.9 mi
Middle Spunk Rest Stop: 24.5 mi
Big Spunk Lake Rest Stop: 24.7 mi

Picnic sites2

Picnic Area 6: 22.5 mi
Quarry 20 picnic area: 23.9 mi

Beaches2

Avon Beach: 23.5 mi
Saint John's Beach: 23.6 mi

Artworks1

SCSU Logo: 22.8 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:21	18:50	19:29
June solstice	05:27	20:25	21:11
September equinox	07:04	18:37	19:16
December solstice	07:56	15:45	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	10	14	28	41	55	65	69	67	59	45	30	17
Precip in	0.7	0.8	1.5	2.6	3.5	4.6	4.1	4.0	3.1	2.7	1.5	1.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rice, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/31656857

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