Nature reserve · Iowa

Silver Lake Wildlife Management Area

Silver Lake Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Silver Lake Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 409 m. The nearest named place is Larson Prairie, a nature reserve 1.2 miles away. Old O'Brien Glacial Trail Scenic Byway passes 20 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 409 m

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates43.03383, -94.88916

19.7 mi off the Old O'Brien Glacial Trail Scenic Byway

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Larson Prairie: 1.2 mi
Elk Lake Wetland Complex: 3.8 mi
Little-Bit-Of-Prairie Wildlife Area: 4.4 mi
Glacial Ridge Wildlife Area: 5.1 mi
Telford's Prairie Wildlife Management Area: 5.4 mi

Parks51

Salton Park: 5.7 mi
Lost Island Park: 9.3 mi
Lost Island Huston Park: 10.1 mi
Smiths Slough State Game Management Area: 10.8 mi
Oppedahl State Game Management Area: 11.1 mi

Museums16

House of Dolls Museum: 11.8 mi
Palo Alto County Historical Museum: 12.2 mi
Victorian Museum on Main: 12.2 mi
L.M. & O. Railroad Museum: 13.2 mi
Parker Historical Museum: 14.6 mi

Attractions3

Wild Rose Casino and Resort: 12.8 mi
Emmet County Nature Center: 21.3 mi
Grotto of the Redemption: 22.9 mi

Historic sites1

Robert Emmet Statue: 11.9 mi

Ghost towns1

Rubens: 19.3 mi

Artworks1

Pocahontas Statue: 23.8 mi

Gardens1

Pumpkin Patch: 24.7 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:24	18:54	19:32
June solstice	05:41	20:20	21:03
September equinox	07:08	18:41	19:19
December solstice	07:49	16:02	16:48

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	17	21	34	47	60	70	74	71	64	51	36	23
Precip in	0.7	0.9	1.8	3.7	4.5	5.5	3.8	4.4	3.4	2.4	1.5	1.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Emmetsburg, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1036841284

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