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Big Bend Village Park

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Big Bend Village Park is a park in Wisconsin, at a recorded elevation of 239 m. Lapham Hill stands 368 m to the northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Hygeia Spring, a spring 0.4 miles away. 6 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
239 m

How to reach it

Coordinates42.87795, -88.21270

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
Historic sites
  • Wind Lake Veterans Memorial: 4.3 mi
  • New Berlin Veterans Memorial: 8.1 mi
  • Hales Corners Veteran's Memorial: 8.8 mi
  • Gertrude Basse the Cow: 10.7 mi
  • Hadfield Company Lime Kilns: 11.1 mi
Attractions
  • Elegant Farmer: 7.1 mi
  • iCOMBAT Waukesha: 7.9 mi
  • Boerner Botanical Gardens: 10.0 mi
  • Battle House: 11.9 mi
  • The Rustic Barn at Prairie Gardens: 13.4 mi
Artworks
  • Saint Fiacre: 10.0 mi
  • Pelican: 10.0 mi
  • Cat: 10.0 mi
  • Cat: 10.0 mi
  • Passage "Fall": 10.0 mi
Museums: 41
  • New Berlin Historical Society: 5.2 mi
  • Heg Memorial Museum: 5.5 mi
  • Norwegian Museum: 5.5 mi
  • Heg Memorial Museum: 5.5 mi
  • Browne Nature Center: 7.3 mi
Gardens: 39
Picnic sites: 36
  • Picnic Area 8: 9.6 mi
  • Picnic Area 6: 9.7 mi
  • Picnic Area 7: 9.7 mi
  • DJ Mackie Picnic Area: 13.0 mi
  • Picnic Area 1: 13.1 mi
Springs: 13
  • Hygeia Spring: 0.4 mi
  • Silurian Spring: 9.1 mi
  • Scuppernong Springs: 13.3 mi
  • Hillside Spring: 13.3 mi
  • Hidden Spring: 13.3 mi
Beaches: 9
Ghost towns: 7
Peaks: 6
  • Buena Park Hill: 6.0 mi
  • Lapham Hill: 14.0 mi
  • Mount Tom: 15.5 mi
  • Bald Bluff: 20.0 mi
  • Lone Tree Bluff: 24.0 mi
Lighthouses: 2

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lapham HillNW 320°368 m14.0 mi
Lone Tree BluffWSW 256°320 m24.0 mi
Bald BluffW 264°317 m20.0 mi
Buena Park HillS 189°290 m6.0 mi
Mount TomS 176°265 m15.5 mi
Mount MoriahS 186°257 m24.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:1519:5320:36
September equinox06:4118:1518:52
December solstice07:2115:3616:22

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F202334455767716962503726
Precip in1.61.71.93.64.04.94.04.23.32.92.21.7

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

  • Bluegill25 obs
  • Dutchman's breeches18 obs
  • prairie trillium18 obs
  • Virginia Springbeauty17 obs
  • Rock Bass16 obs
  • cut-leaved toothwort15 obs
  • sharp-lobed hepatica14 obs
  • northern prickly ash11 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/507898612

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