Cochran State Wayside Area
Cochran State Wayside Area is a park in Nebraska, at a recorded elevation of 1,285 m. Pants Butte stands 1,449 m to the west-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Belmont, a ghost town 3.9 miles away. Bridges to Buttes Byway passes 5.7 miles off. 71 named places lie within 25 miles, 28 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1285 m
How to reach it
- 5.7 mi off the Bridges to Buttes Byway
- 21.4 mi off the Gold Rush Byway
71 named places within 25 miles
- The Fort Robinson Cemetery Historical Marker: 5.9 mi
- Post Headquarters Historical Marker: 5.9 mi
- Officers Row Historical Marker: 5.9 mi
- K-9 Training Area Historical Marker: 5.9 mi
- Fort Robinson Historical Marker: 5.9 mi
- Little Crow Butte: 6.1 mi
- Crow Butte: 6.2 mi
- Saddle Rock: 6.5 mi
- Crown Butte: 6.7 mi
- Giants Coffins Butte: 6.8 mi
- Trailside Museum of Natural History: 6.0 mi
- Fort Robinson History Center: 6.1 mi
- Fort Robinson State Park Museum: 6.1 mi
- Crawford Historical Museum: 6.3 mi
- Dawes County Historical Museum: 23.7 mi
- Prehistoric Prairies Discovery Center: 6.4 mi
- Hudson-Meng Bison Kill Research & Visitor Center: 19.1 mi
- Daemonilix: 22.7 mi
- Split Daemonilix: 22.7 mi
- Crawford School Bell Historical Marker: 5.9 mi
- Fort Laramie - Fort Robinson Trail Historical Marker: 22.1 mi
- Chadron Creek Trading Post Historical Marker: 22.7 mi
- Belmont: 3.9 mi
- West Ash Creek Picnic Area: 8.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cochran State Wayside Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pants Butte | WNW 296° | 1,449 m | 23.2 mi |
| First Woman Mound | E 92° | 1,420 m | 7.2 mi |
| Carnegie Hill | SW 234° | 1,367 m | 20.8 mi |
| Pine Butte | NNW 328° | 1,366 m | 18.6 mi |
| University Hill | SW 234° | 1,359 m | 20.7 mi |
| Roundtop | NNW 330° | 1,346 m | 18.3 mi |
| Red Cloud Buttes | NNW 333° | 1,308 m | 7.1 mi |
| Crown Butte | NE 47° | 1,288 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:53 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:15 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 15:38 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 38 | 46 | 55 | 66 | 74 | 73 | 62 | 47 | 35 | 27 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — FT Robinson, 6 mi away.
- Big Sand Tiger Beetle2 obs
- Northern Hoary Bat1 obs
- thistle poppy1 obs
- upright prairie coneflower1 obs
- Green-striped Grasshopper1 obs
- large-flowered beardtongue1 obs
- Speckle-winged Rangeland Grasshopper1 obs
- Coral-winged Grasshopper1 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 node/357765169
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