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Deer Leap Recreation Area

Deer Leap Recreation Area from directly overhead

Deer Leap Recreation Area is a park in Missouri, at a recorded elevation of 104 m. Mosby Hill stands 294 m to the west-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Deer Leap, a cliff 0.4 miles away. Great River Road passes 72 miles off. 89 named places lie within 25 miles, 28 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
104 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.67284, -90.88762

89 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 28
Springs: 21
  • Malden Spring: 0.8 mi
  • Twin Spring: 8.1 mi
  • Mitchel Spring: 16.3 mi
  • Conner Spring: 16.9 mi
  • Boze's Mill Spring: 17.1 mi
Parks: 14
Ghost towns: 13
Cliffs: 7
Picnic sites: 1
  • Float Camp: 0.9 mi
Museums: 1
  • Ellsinore Pioneer Museum: 19.7 mi
Attractions: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Deer Leap Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mosby HillWNW 289°294 m23.1 mi
Wolf MountainWSW 257°281 m11.7 mi
Green MountainNW 316°275 m24.0 mi
Bald HillWSW 247°251 m14.1 mi
Conner HillW 276°239 m16.2 mi
Turkey KnobW 269°234 m14.9 mi
Pinhook HillNE 51°229 m16.9 mi
Fuse HillNW 313°227 m7.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0818:4219:16
June solstice05:4619:4820:26
September equinox06:5218:2819:02
December solstice07:1316:1216:52

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F353947576675797870584738
Precip in3.43.84.75.65.73.54.63.83.73.94.94.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Doniphan, 6 mi away.

  • Blanchard's Cricket Frog5 obs
  • Virginia bluebells4 obs
  • Christmas fern3 obs
  • Asian Clam3 obs
  • Eastern Bluebird2 obs
  • mayapple2 obs
  • bloodroot2 obs
  • Jacob's ladder2 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 node/358065648

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