Park · Kansas
Air Capital Memorial Park
Air Capital Memorial Park is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 400 m. The nearest named place is Pawnee Prairie Park, a park 0.9 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 132 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 400 m
What to expect
How to reach it
Coordinates37.66521, -97.45603
- 131.5 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Pawnee Prairie Park: 0.9 mi
- Buffalo Park: 1.6 mi
- Meadows Park: 1.7 mi
- Westlink Park: 2.1 mi
- Brown Thrush Park: 2.2 mi
Artworks: 53
- Crane Dance: 3.8 mi
- Endangered Species: 3.8 mi
- Turtle Maze: 3.8 mi
- 99 Words and Phraises Coined by Shakespeare: 7.1 mi
- The Night Sky: 7.1 mi
Museums: 24
- B-29 Doc Hangar, Education and Visitors Center: 1.8 mi
- Old Cowtown Museum: 5.5 mi
- Wichita Art Museum: 5.8 mi
- Indian Center Museum: 6.0 mi
- Exploration Place - Science and Discovery Center: 6.2 mi
Attractions: 15
- The Downing Gorilla Forest: 4.1 mi
- Slawson Family Asian Big Cat Trek: 4.2 mi
- Reticulated Giraffe: 4.3 mi
- Cessna Penguin Cove: 4.4 mi
- The Wichita Botanica Gardens: 5.5 mi
Historic sites: 9
- Keeper of the Plains: 6.1 mi
- Vietnamese American Community Memorial: 6.2 mi
- Vietnam War Memorial: 6.3 mi
- Final Call: 6.6 mi
- Kansas Fallen Firefighters Memorial: 6.6 mi
Beaches: 5
- Swim Beach: 18.6 mi
- Giefer Swim Beach: 20.7 mi
- Spring Creek Swim Beach: 21.2 mi
- Swim Beach: 22.2 mi
- Swim Beach: 22.3 mi
Gardens: 3
- Hilltop Community Garden: 9.1 mi
- Mulvane Community Garden: 17.4 mi
- Bartlett Arboretum: 21.1 mi
Picnic sites: 2
- Textron TAPD Outdoor Break Area: 2.8 mi
- Meadowlark Farm Picnic Site: 23.0 mi
Nature reserves: 1
- Cheney Wildlife Area Refuge: 21.4 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:07 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:09 | 20:16 | 20:55 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:54 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:42 | 16:34 | 17:15 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 37 | 47 | 56 | 66 | 76 | 81 | 79 | 71 | 58 | 46 | 35 |
| Precip in | 0.8 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wichita WX, 1 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer50 obs
- Blanchard's Cricket Frog19 obs
- coralberry19 obs
- North American Wheel Bug18 obs
- snow-on-the-mountain17 obs
- Spanish Gold15 obs
- Carolina horsenettle14 obs
- Eastern Tailed-Blue14 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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