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Clifty Creek Park

Clifty Creek Park from directly overhead

Clifty Creek Park is a park in Indiana, at a modelled elevation of 188 m. Weed Patch Hill stands 322 m to the west, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Flight, a artwork 0.1 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 100 miles off. 39 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates39.19623, -85.87982

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Parks
  • Morningside Park: 0.7 mi
  • 9th Street Park: 1.8 mi
  • Lincoln Park: 1.9 mi
  • Carousel for Columbus: 2.2 mi
  • Courthouse Square: 2.3 mi
Peaks: 39
Historic sites: 33
Museums: 13
  • Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum: 4.2 mi
  • Camp Atterbury Museum: 13.9 mi
  • Camp Atterbury Museum: 13.9 mi
  • Seymour Museum Center: 16.3 mi
  • Hayden Historical Museum: 16.8 mi
Nature reserves: 12
  • Pauline Crump Nature Preserve: 2.6 mi
  • Touch the Earth Natural Area: 7.6 mi
  • Tangeman Woods: 8.1 mi
  • Anderson Falls: 10.1 mi
  • Whip-poor-will Woods: 14.4 mi
Gardens: 4
Cliffs: 3
  • Muscatauck Rock Climb Cliff: 20.1 mi
  • Pine Bluff: 20.6 mi
  • Vernon Cliffs over Muscatatuck: 20.8 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Attractions: 1
  • Vinegar Mill: 20.1 mi
Picnic sites: 1
Beaches: 1
  • Muscatatuck Swimming Hole: 20.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Clifty Creek Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Weed Patch HillW 264°322 m18.2 mi
Bearwallow HillWNW 282°313 m18.4 mi
Taylor HillW 262°309 m8.5 mi
Hohen PointW 259°307.8 m18.9 mi
Hesitation PointW 265°306 m19.2 mi
Patterson HillW 259°299 m8.9 mi
Dowell HillW 268°294 m8.4 mi
Maple HillW 276°291 m23.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4819:2019:56
June solstice06:1820:3421:14
September equinox07:3219:0719:42
December solstice08:0016:4217:25

Local time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303343546473767468564435
Precip in3.42.93.85.05.05.34.53.53.23.43.63.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Columbus, 3 mi away.

  • American pokeweed24 obs
  • Amur honeysuckle11 obs
  • garlic mustard10 obs
  • Virginia bluebells10 obs
  • Western Honey Bee6 obs
  • fortune's spindle6 obs
  • House Sparrow5 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle5 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/486900551

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