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Chautauqua Park

Chautauqua Park from directly overhead

Chautauqua Park is a park in Colorado, at a recorded elevation of 1,739 m. Starr Peak stands 3,198 m to the southwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Waterwise Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway passes 17 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
1898
Elevation
1739 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
The Colorado Chautauqua Association

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.99713, -105.28157

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • En Memoria de Los Seis de Boulder: 0.1 mi
  • Arbor: 0.1 mi
  • Colorado Chautauqua National Historic Landmark: 0.2 mi
  • Baseline marker: 1.1 mi
  • Frank Shorter: 1.3 mi
Parks
Museums
Attractions
Artworks
Peaks
Gardens: 56
  • Waterwise Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Centennial Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Fortune Community Garden: 1.3 mi
  • Goss Grove Community Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Centennial Community Garden: 1.6 mi
Nature reserves: 56
Cliffs: 50
  • Raptor Nesting Site: 0.7 mi
  • Front Porch: 1.5 mi
  • Eagle Rock: 5.3 mi
  • The Amphitheatre: 5.6 mi
  • Bitty Buttress: 5.6 mi
Picnic sites: 20
  • Barbeque: 1.7 mi
  • Mount Alto Picnic Area: 9.2 mi
  • Red Barn Group Picnic Area: 11.1 mi
  • Bootleg Bottom Picnic Area: 13.0 mi
  • Ole Barn Knoll Picnic Area: 13.4 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Boulder Falls: 6.6 mi
  • Copeland Falls: 20.9 mi
  • Lower Copeland Falls: 21.0 mi
  • Upper Copeland Falls: 21.0 mi
  • Hidden Falls: 21.0 mi
Ghost towns: 9
Springs: 4
  • Crystal Spring: 18.6 mi
  • Wilson Spring: 21.7 mi
  • Arapaho Spring: 24.1 mi
  • Lookout Springs: 24.3 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Keyhole Rock: 23.8 mi
Beaches: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.2 miles of Chautauqua Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Starr PeakSW 226°3,198 m10.2 mi
Thorodin MountainSW 225°3,195 m10.8 mi
Miramonte MountainSW 222°2,915 m10.0 mi
Blue MountainSSW 200°2,846 m8.8 mi
Bald MountainWNW 282°2,782 m9.2 mi
Windy PeakSSW 209°2,779.776 m10.7 mi
Crescent MountainSSW 193°2,724 m7.4 mi
Sugarloaf MountainWNW 286°2,709 m7.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0518:3819:13
June solstice05:3319:5320:34
September equinox06:4918:2419:00
December solstice07:2015:5716:40

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343543495767737164524134
Precip in0.81.02.03.03.21.91.81.72.11.61.20.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Boulder, under a mile away.

Wildlife nearby
  • creeping mahonia753 obs
  • Rocky Mountains Ponderosa Pine588 obs
  • Mule Deer422 obs
  • Black-billed Magpie419 obs
  • Front Range Beardtongue383 obs
  • Great Plains yucca352 obs
  • chokecherry347 obs
  • broad-leaved sweet pea325 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/521961223

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