Brown Springs Recreation Area
Brown Springs Recreation Area is a park in Arkansas, at a recorded elevation of 786 m. Signal Hill stands 837 m to the east-southeast, 0.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Brown's Spring, a spring 0.1 miles away. Mount Magazine Scenic Byway runs past it.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 786 m
How to reach it
- On the Mount Magazine Scenic Byway
- 25.9 mi off the Arkansas Scenic 7 Byway
- 29.6 mi off the Ozark Highlands Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Inspiration Point · 2 mi
- Lookout Window · 5 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Signal Hill: 0.4 mi
- Magazine Mountain: 0.4 mi
- Snake Knob: 2.7 mi
- East Snake Knob: 3.0 mi
- Turkey Knob: 3.2 mi
- Cameron Bluff Recreation Area: 0.5 mi
- (former) Dripping Springs Recreation Area: 1.1 mi
- Greenfield Recreation Area: 1.9 mi
- East End Recreation Area: 2.6 mi
- Cove Lake Recreation Area: 4.2 mi
- Brown's Spring: 0.1 mi
- Slocum Spring: 1.4 mi
- Cold Spring: 1.5 mi
- Turkey Springs: 1.7 mi
- Buckman's Spring: 2.9 mi
- Mt Magazine Cascade: 0.3 mi
- Lori Falls: 0.5 mi
- Mt Magazine Falls: 0.8 mi
- Lacey Creek Falls: 2.4 mi
- Hardy Falls: 5.1 mi
- Cameron Bluff: 0.5 mi
- Half Bushel: 10.7 mi
- South Bluff: 12.3 mi
- Buzzard Bluff: 14.2 mi
- North Bluff: 14.3 mi
- Yell County Law Enforcment Memorial: 16.5 mi
- Veterans Monument: 16.6 mi
- Bood's Monument: 16.6 mi
- V for Victory memorial: 16.7 mi
- Summit Park Hotel Site: 22.5 mi
- Mount Magazine State Park: 0.8 mi
- Nimrod State Wildlife Management Area: 21.4 mi
- Mount Nebo State Park: 22.4 mi
- Mount Nebo State Park: 22.7 mi
- Logan County "Old Jail" Museum: 9.7 mi
- Johnson County Historical Society: 23.4 mi
- Belle Museum & Chapel: 23.7 mi
- Ozark Area Depot Museum: 23.9 mi
- Big Piney Rest Area – Eastbound: 22.0 mi
- Overlook Rest Area - Westbound: 22.3 mi
- Big Piney Rest Area - Westbound: 23.7 mi
- Needle's Eye: 1.0 mi
- The Window: 1.1 mi
- Buckman's Pool: 2.9 mi
- Lover's Leap: 22.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.2 miles of Brown Springs Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal Hill | ESE 113° | 837 m | 0.4 mi |
| Magazine Mountain | ESE 112° | 837 m | 0.4 mi |
| Petit Jean Mountain | SSW 195° | 745 m | 10.5 mi |
| Flood Mountain | SSW 197° | 684 m | 9.2 mi |
| Potato Hill Mountain | S 180° | 677 m | 8.5 mi |
| White Oak Mountain | SW 232° | 674 m | 21.2 mi |
| Hogan Mountain | SSW 206° | 630 m | 13.4 mi |
| Beurknob Mountain | SSW 207° | 616 m | 15.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:53 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 19:55 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:40 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:28 | 17:07 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 43 | 51 | 60 | 69 | 77 | 81 | 80 | 73 | 62 | 50 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Blue MTN DAM, 4 mi away.
- Great Spangled Fritillary54 obs
- white fringetree46 obs
- Whitlow-wort43 obs
- Silver-spotted Skipper38 obs
- mapleleaf oak37 obs
- white snakeroot35 obs
- common hoptree32 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail28 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/958231649
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