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Swayne Hollow SNA

Swayne Hollow SNA from directly overhead

Swayne Hollow SNA is a nature reserve in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 154 m. Government Rock stands 250 m to the south-southeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Mill Creek Natural Area, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Great River Road passes 4.3 miles off. 117 named places lie within 25 miles, 13 of them named summits.

What to expect

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How to reach it

Coordinates37.88913, -89.64840

117 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 46
  • Bower Park: 8.5 mi
  • Percy City Park: 8.6 mi
  • Percy School Park: 8.9 mi
  • Cole Memorial Park: 9.1 mi
  • Officer James I. Brockmeyer Memorial Park: 9.7 mi
Picnic sites: 14
Peaks: 13
  • Saint Cosme Hill: 9.3 mi
  • Cleinman Mound: 9.4 mi
  • Tater Hill: 10.3 mi
  • Sugar Hill: 10.6 mi
  • Walker Hill: 19.0 mi
Museums: 8
  • James M. Eddleman Millitary Museum: 15.4 mi
  • Perry County Museum: 16.0 mi
  • Misselhorn Art Museum: 16.3 mi
  • Brown Memorial Museum: 16.4 mi
  • Illinois Rural Heritage Museum: 18.8 mi
Cliffs: 7
Historic sites: 7
  • Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 15.5 mi
  • Wall of Honor: 16.0 mi
  • Unknown Departed Memorial: 23.3 mi
  • Unknown Departed Memorial: 23.3 mi
  • Old Train Depot: 23.5 mi
Attractions: 5
  • ps: 18.3 mi
  • ps: 18.3 mi
  • ps: 19.5 mi
  • Mystic Willow: 23.1 mi
  • Pomona Natural Bridge: 23.5 mi
Artworks: 3
  • pyroglyphics: 0.8 mi
  • ps: 18.4 mi
  • gym: 18.5 mi
Waterfalls: 2
  • Falls-Shelter Bluff: 0.8 mi
  • Kinkaid Lake Spillway Falls: 13.4 mi
Springs: 2
  • Bottoms Spring: 17.1 mi
  • Cave Spring: 24.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Swayne Hollow SNA. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Government RockSSE 152°250 m24.6 mi
Grassy KnobSSE 148°241 m22.5 mi
High KnollWSW 246°204 m21.4 mi
Graveyard HillWSW 249°202 m24.4 mi
Swallow RockSE 135°198 m19.0 mi
Lick HillW 270°188 m20.1 mi
Saint Cosme HillSSW 196°183 m9.3 mi
Sugar HillENE 72°177 m10.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0318:3619:11
June solstice05:3719:4620:25
September equinox06:4718:2318:57
December solstice07:1116:0216:43

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313544556573777568574535
Precip in3.12.64.05.25.24.34.73.53.03.34.12.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sparta 1 W, 16 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/12618657343

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