Shades State Park
Shades State Park is a nature reserve in Indiana, at a modelled elevation of 231 m. Bald Hill stands 262 m to the south-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Honeycomb Rock, a cliff 0.3 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 32 miles off. 98 named places lie within 25 miles, 2 of them named summits.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Indiana Department of Natural Resources
How to reach it
- 31.9 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 27.0 mi off the Historic National Road - Indiana, National
Overlooks nearby
- Camel's Back · 9 mi
- Sunset Point · 9 mi
98 named places within 25 miles
- Cold Spring Camp: 2.0 mi
- Lake Waveland Park: 3.3 mi
- Camp Gulick: 4.8 mi
- Camp Rotary: 6.9 mi
- New Market Community Park: 7.4 mi
- Devil's Punchbowl: 1.0 mi
- Punch Bowl: 8.3 mi
- Rocky Hollow: 8.3 mi
- Wedge Rock: 8.4 mi
- Ice Box: 8.6 mi
- Bachner Nature Reserve: 5.4 mi
- Turkey Run State Park: 8.4 mi
- Raccoon State Recreation Area: 13.8 mi
- Lye Creek Prairie Burn: 16.7 mi
- Hemlock Ridge Nature Preserve: 19.4 mi
- Juliet Straus Memorial: 8.9 mi
- Richard Lieber: 8.9 mi
- Col. Lieber Memorial: 8.9 mi
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument: 10.8 mi
- World War Memorial: 15.3 mi
- Stringtown: 18.6 mi
- Montezuma Station: 20.2 mi
- Early Station: 21.3 mi
- Corwin: 22.8 mi
- Beeville: 24.0 mi
- Lusk Home: 7.7 mi
- Carnegie Museum-Montgomery: 10.7 mi
- Rotary Jail Museum: 10.9 mi
- Putnam County Museum: 22.2 mi
- Putnam County Train Museum: 22.3 mi
- Honeycomb Rock: 0.3 mi
- Fern Cliff: 23.3 mi
- Truax Hill: 4.0 mi
- Bald Hill: 22.0 mi
- Canyon Picnic Area: 8.2 mi
- Picnic Pavillion Aztek Park : 19.2 mi
- Portland Arch: 24.0 mi
- Portland Arch: 24.4 mi
- Silver Cascade Falls: 0.8 mi
- Mansfield Covered Bridge: 18.3 mi
- Tree Spring: 22.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Shades State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Hill | SSE 166° | 262 m | 22.0 mi |
| Truax Hill | N 1° | 244 m | 4.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:53 | 19:25 | 20:00 |
| June solstice | 06:21 | 20:40 | 21:21 |
| September equinox | 07:36 | 19:11 | 19:47 |
| December solstice | 08:07 | 16:44 | 17:27 |
Local time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 29 | 39 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 72 | 71 | 64 | 53 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Crawfordsville 6 SE, 14 mi away.
- snow trillium161 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail73 obs
- Christmas fern69 obs
- eastern hemlock66 obs
- sharp-lobed hepatica58 obs
- walking fern51 obs
- orange mycena47 obs
- Snakewort42 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.
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