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Aiken Wayside Park

Aiken Wayside Park from directly overhead

Aiken Wayside Park is a park in South Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 176 m. Faulkner Mountain stands 195 m to the west-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Twin City High Community Park, a park 8.5 miles away. 75 named places lie within 25 miles, 3 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
176 m

How to reach it

Coordinates33.80292, -81.63733

75 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 50
Historic sites: 8
  • Eastwind Castle: 8.9 mi
  • Footprint of I-20 Speedway: 10.4 mi
  • Suddath School: 14.8 mi
  • Original Site of Furman Academy and Theological Institution: 16.7 mi
  • Nat Stetson Circle: 17.5 mi
Museums: 7
  • Gilbert Museum: 16.2 mi
  • Edgefield historical museum and play theatre: 16.7 mi
  • Center for African American History, Art & Culture: 17.4 mi
  • Aiken Train Depot Museum: 17.5 mi
  • Savannah River Site Museum: 17.6 mi
Springs: 3
Peaks: 3
  • Faulkner Mountain: 23.1 mi
  • Trisha Mountain: 23.5 mi
  • Mount Huckabee: 23.8 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Attractions: 1
Beaches: 1
  • Sandy Beach: 24.3 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Faulkner MountainWNW 299°195 m23.1 mi
Trisha MountainWNW 303°194 m23.5 mi
Mount HuckabeeENE 73°137 m23.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3119:0619:38
June solstice06:1720:0420:41
September equinox07:1518:5219:25
December solstice07:2816:4417:22

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F454854627078818074645447
Precip in4.03.84.33.33.05.34.24.74.12.83.34.2

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

  • Variable Dancer2 obs
  • Canada Goose1 obs
  • North American Racer1 obs
  • Rough Greensnake1 obs
  • Common Buckeye1 obs
  • Zebra Longwing1 obs
  • American white waterlily1 obs
  • Little Yellow1 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357103073

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