Bennett Park
Bennett Park is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 303 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Porter Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 5.1 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.
Play equipment, pavilion, baseball field, and small trail
What the record says
- Elevation
- 303 m
How to reach it
- 5.1 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
- 8.4 mi off the Spirit of Kansas City
- 9.3 mi off the Cliff Drive
- 26.4 mi off the Glacial Hills Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Kaw Point · 9 mi
- Scarrit Point · 10 mi
- Bird Watching Blind · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Porter Park: 0.5 mi
- Austin Harmon Park: 0.6 mi
- Harmon Park Swale: 0.6 mi
- Santa Fe Trail Park: 0.7 mi
- Carroll Plaza: 0.8 mi
- Candy Cane Lane: 0.6 mi
- Concorde Nose: 3.1 mi
- East Building: 3.1 mi
- Old Red Bridge Love Locks: 6.0 mi
- Elephants: 6.3 mi
- Wild Boar of Florence: 1.1 mi
- Homesteaders: 1.3 mi
- William Strang: 1.5 mi
- A Great Place to Land: 1.6 mi
- Gateway: 1.9 mi
- Clock Tower: 1.5 mi
- Pearl Harbor Park: 2.2 mi
- Vietnam War Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Helen S. Cuddy Rose Garden: 2.6 mi
- Gateway to the Avenue of Trees Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Overland Park Historical Society: 1.5 mi
- Johnson County Museum: 1.9 mi
- John Wornall House Museum: 3.4 mi
- The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures: 4.4 mi
- Shawnee Town Museum: 4.7 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 4.2 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 4.6 mi
- Badger Ridge: 4.7 mi
- Westerville Limestone Outcrop: 4.8 mi
- Hertha-Bethany Falls-Winterset Limestone Outcrop: 5.7 mi
- Helen S. Cuddy Rose Garden: 2.6 mi
- Rose Garden: 4.0 mi
- Japanese Garden: 4.0 mi
- Rosedale Community Garden: 4.3 mi
- School Garden: 4.5 mi
- Heartland Overlook Preserve: 5.2 mi
- Saeger Woods Conservation Area: 8.3 mi
- Blue Valley Wilderness Science Center Wilderness Area: 11.0 mi
- Children's Memorial Butterfly Garden: 13.0 mi
- Green Hills of Platte Wildlife Preserve: 13.3 mi
- Overland Park: 8.5 mi
- Overland Park: 8.5 mi
- Bowler Hill: 15.2 mi
- Miller Hill: 18.3 mi
- Arsenal Hill: 19.3 mi
- Quindaro Townsite: 11.4 mi
- Powell: 19.1 mi
- Delaware City: 19.9 mi
- West Union: 21.1 mi
- Kimpton: 24.0 mi
- Turkey Creek Falls: 3.8 mi
- Line Creek Double Falls: 14.7 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 14.7 mi
- Angel Falls: 23.0 mi
- Watts Mill: 4.0 mi
- Family Picnic Area: 16.8 mi
- Swimming Beach: 16.4 mi
- Swim Beach: 18.4 mi
- Pioneer Spring: 14.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bennett Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Hill | SE 142° | 342 m | 18.3 mi |
| Bowler Hill | ESE 118° | 330 m | 15.2 mi |
| Nebo Hill | NE 45° | 291 m | 21.8 mi |
| Monkey Mountain | E 87° | 289 m | 24.9 mi |
| Minter Hill | E 88° | 288 m | 22.4 mi |
| Arsenal Hill | NE 41° | 277 m | 19.3 mi |
| Observation Bluff | WSW 255° | 277 m | 22.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 34 | 44 | 55 | 65 | 74 | 79 | 77 | 69 | 57 | 45 | 34 |
| Precip in | 1.3 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 1.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe 3E, 9 mi away.
- Northern Cardinal28 obs
- House Sparrow25 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk24 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle24 obs
- American Robin22 obs
- Mourning Dove21 obs
- Barred Owl21 obs
- American pokeweed19 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/544819452
Day trips start here
- Overland Park · 2 mi
- Lenexa · 5 mi
- Kansas City · 8 mi
- Kansas City Area · 8 mi
- Kansas City · 9 mi
- Olathe · 11 mi
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