Chautauqua Park
Chautauqua Park is a park in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 335 m. Lookout Hill stands 411 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Prairie Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Loess Hills Scenic Byway runs past it. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 335 m
How to reach it
- On the Loess Hills Scenic Byway, National
- 1.9 mi off the Lewis & Clark Scenic Byway
- 1.9 mi off the Outlaw Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Mount Lucia · 8 mi
- Gobbler Point · 8 mi
- Kestrel Point · 8 mi
- Bobsled Run · 8 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Prairie Park: 0.7 mi
- South Ravine Park: 1.0 mi
- Sertoma Park: 1.2 mi
- Cardinal Park: 1.6 mi
- Siouxland Freedom Park: 2.1 mi
- Wimson Park: 1.8 mi
- Sacajawea Park: 2.2 mi
- Baker Park: 3.0 mi
- Dakota Bend Wildlife Management Area: 5.2 mi
- Weedland Access: 5.9 mi
- First Bride's Grave: 1.1 mi
- First Bride's Grave: 1.1 mi
- Sergeant Floyd Monument: 1.4 mi
- Siouxland Freedom Park: 2.1 mi
- Dakota City: 2.4 mi
- Mid America Air Museum: 2.0 mi
- Sergeant Bluff City Hall: 2.8 mi
- Sioux City Art Center: 3.7 mi
- Betty Strong Encounter Center: 3.8 mi
- Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center: 3.8 mi
- Old Town: 16.4 mi
- Train: 16.4 mi
- Sea Ray Sandbar: 23.6 mi
- West Side Sea Ray Sandbar: 23.8 mi
- West Sea Ray Sandbar: 23.8 mi
- This Is Sioux CIty: 3.7 mi
- Abraham Lincoln Statue: 5.2 mi
- Towers of Time: 19.9 mi
- Harp: 21.0 mi
- Stevens: 8.5 mi
- Dodds: 10.0 mi
- Peiro: 21.8 mi
- Lucky Valley: 22.8 mi
- Dale Street Community Garden: 4.5 mi
- Dale G Bell Memorial Arboretum: 9.8 mi
- Dakota Point: 9.1 mi
- Lookout Hill: 20.1 mi
- Sergeant Bluff: 3.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Chautauqua Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lookout Hill | WNW 303° | 411 m | 20.1 mi |
| Dakota Point | NNW 329° | 394 m | 9.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:30 | 19:01 | 19:38 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 20:24 | 21:07 |
| September equinox | 07:14 | 18:48 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:52 | 16:11 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 24 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 70 | 75 | 72 | 64 | 51 | 36 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 1.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sioux City ANG, 3 mi away.
- hoary vervain6 obs
- Cannabis6 obs
- white snakeroot6 obs
- Northern Cardinal4 obs
- common milkweed4 obs
- Canada Goose3 obs
- American Robin3 obs
- White-tailed Deer3 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/858246733
Day trips start here
- Sioux City · 4 mi
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