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Bettes Park

Bettes Park from directly overhead

Bettes Park is a park in Florida, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. Mount Cornelia stands 15 m to the east-northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Yerkes Park, a park 0.2 miles away. WILLIAM BARTRAM TRL passes 11 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
5 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates30.27899, -81.69979

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Yerkes Park: 0.2 mi
  • Desoto Park: 0.3 mi
  • Stockton Park: 0.4 mi
  • Baker Point Park: 0.5 mi
  • Stinson Park: 0.5 mi
Attractions: 46
  • Riverview Gardens: 8.9 mi
  • Save the Frogs: 9.0 mi
  • Emu: 9.0 mi
  • Hornbill Aviary: 9.0 mi
  • Lorikeet Aviary: 9.0 mi
Artworks: 20
Museums: 15
Nature reserves: 11
  • Crosby Sanctuary: 7.4 mi
  • Crosby Sanctuary: 7.5 mi
  • Branan Field Wildlife and Environmental Area: 11.1 mi
  • Pablo Creek Perserve: 14.6 mi
  • Black Creek Ravines Conservation Area: 16.5 mi
Gardens: 9
  • English Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Italian Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Upper Olmsted Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Lower Olmsted Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Community Garden: 8.1 mi
Historic sites: 8
  • Soldiers of the American Revolution Associated with Jacksonville History: 3.8 mi
  • Andrew Jackson: 4.0 mi
  • Market Street Horror: 4.1 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Wall: 4.7 mi
  • Grove Park Memorial: 7.8 mi
Springs: 7
  • Pottsburg Spring: 7.7 mi
  • Wadesboro Spring: 8.5 mi
  • Ww Gay 1 Spring: 8.8 mi
  • Ww Gay 2 Spring: 8.8 mi
  • Sunowa Spring: 15.5 mi
Cliffs: 5
Beaches: 4
Peaks: 3
  • Round Top: 14.3 mi
  • Indian Mound: 17.5 mi
  • Mount Cornelia: 19.4 mi
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Picnic sites: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount CorneliaENE 57°15 m19.4 mi
Round TopNE 48°8 m14.3 mi
Indian MoundENE 70°3 m17.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3219:0719:39
June solstice06:2619:5720:32
September equinox07:1618:5319:25
December solstice07:2016:5517:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F566065717882848481746559
Precip in2.92.33.12.43.27.36.06.36.13.62.02.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jacksonville NAS, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Brown Anole67 obs
  • Monarch62 obs
  • Painted Bunting32 obs
  • Cuban Tree Frog31 obs
  • Gulf Fritillary23 obs
  • Eastern Lubber Grasshopper22 obs
  • Barred Owl19 obs
  • Northern Mockingbird18 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/540186021

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