Wimson Park
Wimson Park is a nature reserve in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 334 m. Blackbird Hill stands 426 m to the south, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Mid America Air Museum, a museum 0.6 miles away. Loess Hills Scenic Byway runs past it. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 334 m
How to reach it
- On the Loess Hills Scenic Byway, National
- 3.3 mi off the Lewis & Clark Scenic Byway
- 3.3 mi off the Outlaw Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Mount Lucia · 10 mi
- Gobbler Point · 10 mi
- Kestrel Point · 10 mi
- Bobsled Run · 10 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Jefferson Park: 0.8 mi
- Wilde Park: 1.3 mi
- Bishop Field: 1.5 mi
- Oak Park: 1.5 mi
- Sertoma Park: 1.6 mi
- Baker Park: 1.3 mi
- Sacajawea Park: 3.9 mi
- Dakota Bend Wildlife Management Area: 4.0 mi
- Weedland Access: 4.6 mi
- Mile Long Island Wildlife Management Area: 5.8 mi
- Dakota City: 2.6 mi
- First Bride's Grave: 2.8 mi
- First Bride's Grave: 2.8 mi
- Sergeant Floyd Monument: 3.1 mi
- Siouxland Freedom Park: 3.8 mi
- Mid America Air Museum: 0.6 mi
- Sergeant Bluff City Hall: 1.1 mi
- Sioux City Art Center: 5.5 mi
- Betty Strong Encounter Center: 5.5 mi
- Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center: 5.6 mi
- Old Town: 16.1 mi
- Train: 16.2 mi
- Sea Ray Sandbar: 21.8 mi
- West Side Sea Ray Sandbar: 22.0 mi
- West Sea Ray Sandbar: 22.0 mi
- This Is Sioux CIty: 5.5 mi
- Abraham Lincoln Statue: 7.0 mi
- Harp: 20.8 mi
- Towers of Time: 21.3 mi
- Dodds: 10.1 mi
- Stevens: 10.1 mi
- Peiro: 20.6 mi
- Lucky Valley: 21.9 mi
- Dakota Point: 10.8 mi
- Lookout Hill: 21.6 mi
- Blackbird Hill: 23.7 mi
- Dale Street Community Garden: 6.3 mi
- Dale G Bell Memorial Arboretum: 8.1 mi
- Sergeant Bluff: 1.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Wimson Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackbird Hill | S 172° | 426 m | 23.7 mi |
| Lookout Hill | NW 306° | 411 m | 21.6 mi |
| Dakota Point | NNW 330° | 394 m | 10.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:30 | 19:01 | 19:38 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 20:24 | 21:07 |
| September equinox | 07:14 | 18:47 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:52 | 16:11 | 16:56 |
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 | 19 | 24 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 70 | 75 | 72 | 64 | 51 | 36 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 1.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sioux City ANG, 2 mi away.
- Two-spotted Bumble Bee5 obs
- Zebra Jumping Spider4 obs
- Margined Calligrapher4 obs
- Monarch3 obs
- musk thistle3 obs
- Eurasian Collared-Dove2 obs
- Chipping Sparrow2 obs
- Barn Swallow2 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1035836578
Day trips start here
- Sioux City · 6 mi
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