Brookside Park
Brookside Park is a park in Kansas, at a modelled elevation of 317 m. Blue Mound stands 318 m to the west-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Winwood Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 12 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 12.0 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
- 26.3 mi off the Spirit of Kansas City
- 27.9 mi off the Cliff Drive
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Blind · 12 mi
- Kaw Point · 27 mi
- Scarrit Point · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Winwood Park: 0.4 mi
- Cornerstone Park: 0.5 mi
- Meadowbrook Park: 1.0 mi
- Stone Creek Park: 1.1 mi
- Veterans Park: 1.1 mi
- Trails West: 4.7 mi
- Sprout: 7.3 mi
- Theb: 7.6 mi
- Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 8.5 mi
- Copper Hopper Chopper by David Seitzinger: 12.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial Plaza: 5.4 mi
- Cannon: 6.8 mi
- Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 12.8 mi
- Austin's Park Memorial: 13.4 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 14.0 mi
- M101: 6.8 mi
- Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead: 12.4 mi
- Midland Railway Baldwin City Depot: 15.5 mi
- Louisburg Cider Mill: 15.9 mi
- Candy Cane Lane: 18.5 mi
- Gardner Historical Museum: 0.7 mi
- Lanesfield Historic Site: 4.3 mi
- Ensor Park and Museum: 6.2 mi
- Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture: 7.4 mi
- Kansas City Automotive Museum: 11.1 mi
- Green Tech Garden: 6.0 mi
- Monarch Garden: 7.5 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 7.5 mi
- Bee Garden: 7.5 mi
- Bird Garden: 7.5 mi
- Hillsdale Recreation Area: 8.1 mi
- Douglas State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area: 13.2 mi
- Rice Woodland: 14.3 mi
- Breidenthal Biological Reserve: 14.7 mi
- Blue Valley Wilderness Science Center Wilderness Area: 15.1 mi
- Observation Bluff: 9.6 mi
- Overland Park: 13.7 mi
- Overland Park: 13.7 mi
- Blue Mound: 15.5 mi
- Fowler Hill: 16.2 mi
- Franklin: 16.2 mi
- Prairie City: 16.3 mi
- Dennison: 18.3 mi
- Powell: 18.9 mi
- Hackett: 21.0 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 13.0 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 15.6 mi
- Badger Ridge: 22.0 mi
- Hertha-Bethany Falls-Winterset Limestone Outcrop: 23.0 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 23.0 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 4.4 mi
- Turkey Creek Falls: 19.6 mi
- Wakarusa River Falls: 23.2 mi
- Swim Beach: 7.5 mi
- Windsurfer Beach: 10.0 mi
- Miola Beach: 16.0 mi
- Watts Mill: 19.0 mi
- Overlook Park Shelter 1: 24.3 mi
- Overlook Park Shelter 2: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Brookside Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mound | WNW 294° | 318 m | 15.5 mi |
| Fowler Hill | WSW 242° | 318 m | 16.2 mi |
| Mount Oread | WNW 300° | 316 m | 20.6 mi |
| Shank Hill | WNW 286° | 304 m | 19.2 mi |
| Sanders Mound | WNW 290° | 288 m | 24.1 mi |
| Observation Bluff | NW 313° | 277 m | 9.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:57 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:09 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:20 | 17:02 |
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 | 30 | 34 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 75 | 79 | 77 | 69 | 57 | 44 | 34 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe Johnson CO IND AP, 2 mi away.
- Common Snapping Turtle18 obs
- Lesser Yellowlegs12 obs
- musk thistle12 obs
- American Robin11 obs
- cutleaf teasel11 obs
- Pectoral Sandpiper10 obs
- Painted Turtle10 obs
- Blue-winged Teal10 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/164398030
Day trips start here
- Olathe · 8 mi
- Lenexa · 14 mi
- Overland Park · 18 mi
- Kansas City · 26 mi
- Kansas City · 27 mi
- Kansas City Area · 27 mi
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