Buck Park
Buck Park is a park in Florida, at a recorded elevation of 12 m. Mount Cornelia stands 15 m to the northeast, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Ed Austin Regional Park, a park 0.7 miles away. A1A OCEAN ISLANDS TRAIL (OBS) passes 4.8 miles off. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.
Multi-purpose park for sports and recreation.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 12 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 4.8 mi off the A1A OCEAN ISLANDS TRAIL (OBS)
- 10.4 mi off the A1A HISTORIC BYWAY
- 16.9 mi off the WILLIAM BARTRAM TRL
Overlooks nearby
- North Overlook · 24 mi
- South Overlook · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ed Austin Regional Park: 0.7 mi
- Sunny Acres Park: 1.9 mi
- Fort Caroline National Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Fulton Road Landing: 2.3 mi
- Ribault Monument: 2.7 mi
- Monty's Marina Deep-Sea Fishing: 5.4 mi
- Kingsley Plantation: 7.3 mi
- Frog Hopper: 7.8 mi
- Area 51 Laser Tag: 7.8 mi
- Batting Cages: 7.8 mi
- Jaguar: 7.7 mi
- Panda and Cubs: 8.2 mi
- Zuko: 8.2 mi
- Aligator statue: 8.4 mi
- Elephant Pair: 8.4 mi
- Hands on Childrens Museum: 5.8 mi
- Old Saint Andrew's Church: 8.0 mi
- Jacksonville Fire Museum: 8.4 mi
- USS Orleck: 8.4 mi
- Karpeles Manuscript Library: 8.6 mi
- Grove Park Memorial: 5.6 mi
- Veterans Memorial Wall: 7.8 mi
- Market Street Horror: 8.7 mi
- Soldiers of the American Revolution Associated with Jacksonville History: 8.8 mi
- American Red Cross Volunteer Life Saving Corps and Station: 8.9 mi
- Community Garden: 4.1 mi
- Kingsley Garden: 7.3 mi
- Asian Bamboo Garden: 8.2 mi
- Lower Olmsted Garden: 10.0 mi
- Upper Olmsted Garden: 10.0 mi
- Cradle Creek Preserve: 8.5 mi
- Pablo Creek Perserve: 9.1 mi
- Betz-Tiger Point Preserve: 9.4 mi
- Seaton Creek Preserve: 14.6 mi
- Crosby Sanctuary: 18.8 mi
- Saint Johns Bluff: 2.5 mi
- Mitchell Bluff: 3.1 mi
- Half Moon Bluff: 9.8 mi
- Black Point: 13.3 mi
- Beauclerc Bluff: 13.4 mi
- Pottsburg Spring: 5.7 mi
- Wadesboro Spring: 18.5 mi
- Ww Gay 1 Spring: 18.9 mi
- Ww Gay 2 Spring: 18.9 mi
- Sunowa Spring: 22.7 mi
- Seminole Beach: 7.5 mi
- Bone Yard Beach: 10.8 mi
- Mickler's Landing: 16.5 mi
- Fernandina Beach: 23.5 mi
- Shee Beach: 24.8 mi
- Round Top: 4.3 mi
- Indian Mound: 5.4 mi
- Mount Cornelia: 7.4 mi
- McClure Hill: 22.8 mi
- Saint Johns County Rest Area I-95 Southbound: 18.1 mi
- Saint Johns County Rest Area I-95 Northbound: 18.4 mi
- Yukon: 13.9 mi
- Cornerstone Picnic Area: 15.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Buck Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Cornelia | NE 45° | 15 m | 7.4 mi |
| McClure Hill | N 10° | 10 m | 22.8 mi |
| Round Top | N 354° | 8 m | 4.3 mi |
| Indian Mound | E 83° | 3 m | 5.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:06 | 19:38 |
| June solstice | 06:25 | 19:57 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 07:15 | 18:52 | 19:24 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 16:54 | 17:30 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–Jun.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 55 | 58 | 63 | 68 | 74 | 80 | 82 | 82 | 79 | 72 | 63 | 58 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 6.9 | 7.3 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 2.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jacksonville Craig Muni AP, 1 mi away.
- Christmas lichen67 obs
- Brown Anole52 obs
- Variable Dancer36 obs
- Ebony Jewelwing34 obs
- Green Anole32 obs
- cinnamon fern31 obs
- Coralberry29 obs
- American beautyberry23 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/467222319
Day trips start here
- Mayport · 6 mi
- Jacksonville Beach · 8 mi
- Neptune Beach · 8 mi
- Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve · 8 mi
- Jacksonville · 9 mi
- Ponte Vedra Beach · 11 mi
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