Dierkes Lake Park
Dierkes Lake Park is a park in Idaho, at a recorded elevation of 1,084 m. Grand View Peak stands 2,197 m to the south, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Dierkes Lake, a park 0.1 miles away. Thousand Springs Scenic Byway passes 3.2 miles off. 110 named places lie within 25 miles, 15 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1084 m
How to reach it
- 3.2 mi off the Thousand Springs Scenic Byway
- 23.5 mi off the Sawtooth Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Shoshone Falls Observation Deck · 1 mi
- Hansen Bridge Lookout · 5 mi
110 named places within 25 miles
- Dierkes Lake: 0.1 mi
- Shoshone Falls: 0.6 mi
- Morning Sun Park: 2.4 mi
- Jason's Woodland Park: 2.7 mi
- Clyde Thomsen Park: 3.3 mi
- Sugarloaf Spring: 15.6 mi
- Nat Soo Pah Hot Springs: 18.3 mi
- Hoops Spring: 18.9 mi
- Moonshine Spring: 19.0 mi
- Huja Patezopai’I: 19.9 mi
- Skeleton Butte: 8.0 mi
- Stricker Butte: 8.8 mi
- Flat Top Butte: 9.6 mi
- Hansen Butte: 10.5 mi
- Hub Butte: 12.3 mi
- Twins Statue: 3.2 mi
- IB Perrine Monument: 3.4 mi
- Evel Knievel Monument: 3.4 mi
- CSI Tower: 4.5 mi
- Honor Roll: 9.0 mi
- Shoshone Falls: 0.7 mi
- Pillar Falls: 2.1 mi
- Perrine Coulee Falls: 4.2 mi
- Auger Falls: 7.4 mi
- Devils Washboard Falls: 20.5 mi
- Shoshone Falls: 0.7 mi
- Evel Knievel Jump Site: 1.7 mi
- Jerome County Fairgrounds: 11.5 mi
- Lincoln County Fairgrounds: 23.3 mi
- Herrett Museum: 4.2 mi
- Twin Falls County Museum: 8.5 mi
- Jerome County Historical Museum: 11.2 mi
- Shoshone Falls: 0.6 mi
- Eagle Bluff: 21.0 mi
- Rose Garden: 4.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Dierkes Lake Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand View Peak | S 169° | 2,197 m | 23.9 mi |
| Wooden Shoe Butte | SSE 167° | 2,066 m | 22.9 mi |
| Sugarloaf | S 175° | 1,748 m | 16.5 mi |
| Berger Butte | SW 227° | 1,430 m | 16.9 mi |
| Milner Butte | ESE 117° | 1,409 m | 21.1 mi |
| Hub Butte | SSW 203° | 1,404 m | 12.3 mi |
| Hazelton Butte | E 99° | 1,342 m | 15.2 mi |
| Skeleton Butte | E 95° | 1,340 m | 8.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:42 | 19:13 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 20:37 | 21:19 |
| September equinox | 07:26 | 18:59 | 19:37 |
| December solstice | 08:05 | 16:22 | 17:08 |
Local time (America/Boise).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 35 | 44 | 49 | 59 | 66 | 75 | 73 | 64 | 52 | 39 | 31 |
| Precip in | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Twin Falls-kmvt, 4 mi away.
- Yellow-bellied Marmot108 obs
- Western Fence Lizard59 obs
- Rock Pigeon34 obs
- golden currant30 obs
- showy milkweed29 obs
- bittersweet nightshade25 obs
- Common Side-blotched Lizard24 obs
- Vivid Dancer24 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/358660778
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