Cow Creek Public Use Area
Cow Creek Public Use Area is a park in Missouri, at a recorded elevation of 292 m. Black Mountain stands 633 m to the south, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Cow Creek Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Ozark Mountain Highroad passes 8.6 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 292 m
How to reach it
- 8.6 mi off the Ozark Mountain Highroad
- 11.0 mi off the Ozark Mountain Parkway
- 19.8 mi off the Sugar Camp Scenic Byway
- 26.4 mi off the Arkansas Scenic 7 Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Cow Creek Park: 0.1 mi
- Mill Creek Park: 3.2 mi
- Mill Creek Public Use Area: 3.2 mi
- Old Highway Eighty-Six Park: 4.1 mi
- Old Highway Eighty-Six Public Use Area: 4.4 mi
- Bread Tray Mountain: 4.8 mi
- Naked Joe Bald: 5.1 mi
- Little Joe Bald: 5.1 mi
- Sow Coon Mountain: 5.5 mi
- Baird Mountain: 5.8 mi
- Logslide Bluff: 1.5 mi
- Whiterock Bluff: 2.8 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 3.2 mi
- Mobley Bluff: 3.5 mi
- White Rock Bluff: 4.3 mi
- Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium: 7.9 mi
- Titanic Museum: 8.0 mi
- World's Largest Toy Museum: 8.1 mi
- Dinosaur Museum: 8.1 mi
- Hollywood Wax Museum: 8.1 mi
- Big Cedar Fun Mountain: 6.8 mi
- The Runaway Mountain Coaster: 7.2 mi
- Thunderation: 7.7 mi
- Frisco Silver Dollar Line: 7.7 mi
- Frisco Silver Dollar Line: 7.7 mi
- Radical: 4.1 mi
- Cedar Valley: 6.0 mi
- Flag: 6.6 mi
- Melva: 10.1 mi
- McFarland: 19.6 mi
- Carney Spring: 21.0 mi
- Magnetic Springs: 21.6 mi
- Crescent Spring: 21.9 mi
- Grotto Spring: 21.9 mi
- Congress Spring: 22.0 mi
- Lest We Forget 9/11 Memorial: 9.2 mi
- Veteran's Grove: 9.3 mi
- The Missouri Gold Star Families Memorial: 9.3 mi
- Ozark Medieval Fortress: 20.6 mi
- Civil War Healing: 22.3 mi
- Berlin Wall Segment: 21.2 mi
- Christ of the Ozarks: 21.4 mi
- Art Wall: 22.2 mi
- Humpty Dumpty Statue: 22.2 mi
- Don's Island: 5.2 mi
- Moonshine Beach: 5.6 mi
- Aunts Creek Beach: 8.2 mi
- Lakeside Forest Trails: 9.5 mi
- StoneBridge Pavilion: 10.4 mi
- Scripture Garden: 9.2 mi
- Natural Bridge: 21.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.3 miles of Cow Creek Public Use Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Mountain | S 189° | 633 m | 23.5 mi |
| Holden Mountain | S 175° | 614 m | 24.0 mi |
| Bradshaw Mountain | S 185° | 609 m | 20.2 mi |
| Lone Tree Mountain | SSW 191° | 607 m | 22.2 mi |
| Waldrop Mountain | S 188° | 600 m | 23.7 mi |
| Anderson Mountain | SSW 198° | 552 m | 18.0 mi |
| Pine Mountain | S 174° | 547 m | 19.7 mi |
| Gage Mountain | SSW 197° | 547 m | 21.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:18 | 18:52 | 19:26 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 19:58 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:38 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:22 | 17:02 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 39 | 48 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 78 | 70 | 59 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 2.9 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 5.5 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Branson AP, 11 mi away.
- rue anemone2 obs
- stalked ruellia2 obs
- Prairie Lizard2 obs
- Chinese bushclover2 obs
- Chuck-will's-widow2 obs
- Turkey Vulture1 obs
- Wood Duck1 obs
- Northern Cardinal1 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/358065424
Day trips start here
- Branson · 9 mi
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