Big Hollow Creek Recreation Area
Big Hollow Creek Recreation Area is a park in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 205 m. Gittings Mound stands 230 m to the south-southeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is East Picnic Area, a picnic site 0.6 miles away. Great River Road passes 8.8 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 205 m
How to reach it
- 8.8 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 110.5 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 27.8 mi off the Historic Hills Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Zion School Museum: 1.9 mi
- Cartwright Park: 5.4 mi
- Chautauqua Park: 6.3 mi
- Water's Roadside Park: 7.6 mi
- Luers Park: 9.5 mi
- Hickory Bend: 2.7 mi
- Hoover Nature Trail Wildlife Management Area: 7.0 mi
- Kevin J. Gahn Wildlife Refuge: 7.7 mi
- Starr's Cave State Preserve: 8.1 mi
- North Gorge: 8.4 mi
- Zion School Museum: 1.9 mi
- Dover Historical Museum: 9.5 mi
- Rural Free Delivery Postal Museum: 10.2 mi
- Garrett-Phelps House Museum: 11.4 mi
- Heritage Center Museum: 11.4 mi
- Chief Taimah Memorial Site: 8.6 mi
- Snake Alley: 11.4 mi
- Fire Bell: 11.5 mi
- CB&Q Steam Engine 3003: 11.8 mi
- West Point Freedom Rock: 20.0 mi
- Des Moines County Fair: 9.6 mi
- Sante Fe Locomotive: 22.5 mi
- CB&Q Depot: 22.6 mi
- Sante Fe Caboose: 22.6 mi
- ATSF Depot: 22.6 mi
- Art Gallery: 9.7 mi
- Art Display: 9.8 mi
- Metal Flower: 23.8 mi
- Metal Monarch: 23.8 mi
- Tree of Life: 23.8 mi
- Jollyville Hill: 18.2 mi
- Gittings Mound: 23.5 mi
- East Picnic Area: 0.6 mi
- Bald Bluff: 18.8 mi
- Monarch Garden: 23.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Big Hollow Creek Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gittings Mound | SSE 157° | 230 m | 23.5 mi |
| Jollyville Hill | S 182° | 161 m | 18.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:09 | 18:41 | 19:17 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 20:00 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 06:53 | 18:28 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 15:57 | 16:41 |
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 | 24 | 28 | 40 | 52 | 63 | 73 | 76 | 74 | 67 | 55 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 1.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gladstone DAM 18, 12 mi away.
- bird's-foot trefoil3 obs
- common milkweed3 obs
- Isabella Tiger Moth3 obs
- wild bergamot3 obs
- purple crownvetch3 obs
- North American Wheel Bug2 obs
- Blanchard's Cricket Frog2 obs
- Large Lace-border Moth2 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/410402661
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