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Arapaho Park

Arapaho Park from directly overhead

Arapaho Park is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 300 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the east-southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Woodbrook Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 2.6 miles off. 6 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
300 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.90491, -94.76701

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
  • Kansas City Automotive Museum: 1.0 mi
  • Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture: 2.9 mi
  • Legler Barn Museum: 4.6 mi
  • Historic State Bank of Stanley Building: 6.1 mi
  • Wonderscope Children Museum: 6.3 mi
Artworks
  • Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 2.3 mi
  • Theb: 2.9 mi
  • Sprout: 3.1 mi
  • Hybrid Circle: 3.4 mi
  • "The Serpent": 4.5 mi
Historic sites
  • Cannon: 3.5 mi
  • Austin's Park Memorial: 4.3 mi
  • Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 4.3 mi
  • 9/11 Memorial: 4.5 mi
  • Korean War Veterans Memorial: 4.8 mi
Attractions
Gardens: 27
  • K-State Garden Gallery: 1.8 mi
  • Prairie Grasses and Wildflower Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Pollinator Prarie: 2.7 mi
  • Bird Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Bee Garden: 2.8 mi
Nature reserves: 14
Peaks: 6
  • Overland Park: 5.6 mi
  • Overland Park: 5.6 mi
  • Observation Bluff: 15.1 mi
  • Miller Hill: 19.8 mi
  • Bowler Hill: 20.1 mi
Ghost towns: 5
Beaches: 4
  • Swim Beach: 11.1 mi
  • Windsurfer Beach: 17.8 mi
  • Miola Beach: 22.3 mi
  • Swimming Beach: 24.0 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Cedar Lake Falls: 5.9 mi
  • Turkey Creek Falls: 9.8 mi
  • Line Creek Double Falls: 22.1 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Watts Mill: 9.1 mi
Springs: 1
  • Pioneer Spring: 23.1 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Miller HillESE 115°342 m19.8 mi
Bowler HillE 93°330 m20.1 mi
Blue MoundW 270°318 m22.3 mi
Observation BluffW 271°277 m15.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2318:5619:31
June solstice05:5520:0920:49
September equinox07:0718:4319:18
December solstice07:3516:1917:01

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293444556574797769574534
Precip in1.31.72.54.15.35.24.74.54.23.02.41.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe 3E, 1 mi away.

  • Great Blue Heron46 obs
  • White-tailed Deer44 obs
  • Differential Grasshopper34 obs
  • Amur honeysuckle31 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel30 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk29 obs
  • Osage-orange27 obs
  • Blanchard's Cricket Frog27 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 way/274896957

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