Blue Rock Oval
Blue Rock Oval is a park in Ohio, at a recorded elevation of 152 m. Rumpke Mountain stands 319 m to the north-northwest, 8.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Hoffner Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Ohio River Scenic Byway passes 4.1 miles off. 36 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 152 m
How to reach it
- 4.1 mi off the Ohio River Scenic Byway, National
- 4.9 mi off the Riverboat Row Scenic Byway
- 11.0 mi off the Presidential Pathways Ohio Scenic Byway
- 14.9 mi off the Whitewater Canal Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Shelter · 14 mi
- Equestrian Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Hoffner Park: 0.1 mi
- Chase/Fergus Playground: 0.3 mi
- Jergens Park: 0.5 mi
- Wayne Park: 0.6 mi
- Mount Storm Park: 0.7 mi
- Ludlow Station Monument: 0.4 mi
- SAR Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Ronald Walker Tower of Light: 2.4 mi
- Mr. Redlegs Bench: 3.3 mi
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: 3.5 mi
- The People's Garden on Boyd St.: 0.4 mi
- Langland Wildway: 0.8 mi
- Meyer Conifer Garden: 2.1 mi
- Magnolia Collection: 2.1 mi
- Lilac Collection: 2.1 mi
- Temple of Love: 0.7 mi
- Elephant Trek: 2.0 mi
- Lemur Lookout: 2.0 mi
- Night Hunters: 2.0 mi
- Siegfried and Roy's White Lions: 2.0 mi
- Big Boy: 1.4 mi
- Clifton Plaza Mural: 1.6 mi
- Richardson’s Rocks: 2.1 mi
- Forest Devil: 2.3 mi
- Mick: 2.3 mi
- American Sign Museum: 1.2 mi
- Trailside Nature Center: 2.0 mi
- Over-the-Rhine Museum: 3.3 mi
- Taft House: 3.4 mi
- Museum of Natural History and Science: 3.5 mi
- Parker Woods: 0.8 mi
- Edgewood Grove: 0.8 mi
- Quarry St. Preserve: 0.9 mi
- Rawson Woods: 1.2 mi
- Greeno Woods: 1.6 mi
- Mount Storm: 0.7 mi
- Bald Knob: 2.7 mi
- Brighton Hill: 2.9 mi
- Goat Hill: 3.7 mi
- Mount Adams: 4.3 mi
- Area 23: 1.3 mi
- Area 19, Stone Steps: 1.3 mi
- Area 11: 1.4 mi
- Area 22, Furnas Hill: 1.4 mi
- Area 21: 1.5 mi
- Lower Buckeye Falls: 11.1 mi
- Buckeye Falls: 11.2 mi
- Butterworth: 18.2 mi
- Simpkinsville: 20.9 mi
- Hidden Valley Lake Beach: 15.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Blue Rock Oval. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rumpke Mountain | NNW 340° | 319 m | 8.5 mi |
| Elkhorn Hill | NW 306° | 308 m | 22.8 mi |
| English Hill | NW 305° | 304 m | 24.6 mi |
| Gobblers Knob Hill | WNW 301° | 301 m | 24.9 mi |
| Cobbs Hill | NW 308° | 299 m | 24.4 mi |
| New Trenton Hill | WNW 300° | 287 m | 21.3 mi |
| Harrison Hill | WNW 289° | 284 m | 17.7 mi |
| Harrison Hill | WNW 292° | 279 m | 17.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:43 | 19:15 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:13 | 20:28 | 21:08 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:02 | 19:37 |
| December solstice | 07:55 | 16:37 | 17:19 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 33 | 42 | 54 | 64 | 72 | 75 | 74 | 68 | 56 | 44 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cheviot, 4 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly246 obs
- Virginia bluebells118 obs
- Amur honeysuckle111 obs
- white snakeroot110 obs
- Common Wall Lizard109 obs
- blue phlox107 obs
- Celandine Poppy107 obs
- white fawnlily106 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 node/357453791
Day trips start here
- Cincinnati/Clifton and Northside · 2 mi
- Cincinnati/Western · 2 mi
- Cincinnati/Over-the-Rhine · 3 mi
- Hamilton County · 3 mi
- Cincinnati · 4 mi
- Cincinnati/Downtown · 5 mi
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