Devils Nest Recreation Area
Devils Nest Recreation Area is a park in Nebraska, at a recorded elevation of 415 m. Maidens Leap stands 394 m to the west-southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Miller Creek Recreation Area, a park 1.6 miles away. Outlaw Trail passes 6.6 miles off. 61 named places lie within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 415 m
How to reach it
- 6.6 mi off the Outlaw Trail
61 named places within 25 miles
- Miller Creek Recreation Area: 1.6 mi
- Bloomfield Recreation Area: 3.3 mi
- Tabor Recreation Area: 3.6 mi
- Charley Creek Recreation Area: 3.6 mi
- Lewis and Clark Lake State Recreation Area: 6.0 mi
- Mead Museum / Dakota Territorial Museum: 16.4 mi
- Ponca Tribe Museum: 17.5 mi
- Verdigre Heritage Museum: 22.9 mi
- Chalkrock State Wildlife Management Area: 16.6 mi
- Niobrara State Park: 18.8 mi
- Bohemia Prairie Wildlife Management Area: 23.8 mi
- Pebble Beach: 6.2 mi
- Hobie Cat Beach: 10.9 mi
- Calumet Bluff: 11.7 mi
- Maidens Leap: 13.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Devils Nest Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maidens Leap | WSW 250° | 394 m | 13.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:06 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:30 | 21:14 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:53 | 19:30 |
| December solstice | 07:59 | 16:14 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 20 | 24 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 64 | 50 | 36 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Crofton, 12 mi away.
- Mapleleaf2 obs
- Painted Turtle1 obs
- Pink Papershell1 obs
- Deertoe Mussel1 obs
- velvet feather-moss1 obs
- Fragile Papershell1 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/357754409
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