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Echo Bluff State Park

Echo Bluff State Park from directly overhead

Echo Bluff State Park is a park in Missouri, at a modelled elevation of 228 m. Red Hill stands 410 m to the northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Echo Bluff, a cliff 0.2 miles away. Great River Road passes 88 miles off. 152 named places lie within 25 miles, 28 of them named summits.

What to expect

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How to reach it

Coordinates37.31131, -91.40845

152 named places within 25 miles

Springs: 39
  • Round Spring: 2.0 mi
  • Pump Lead Spring: 3.0 mi
  • White Oak Spring: 4.5 mi
  • Watson Spring: 4.5 mi
  • Fire Hydrant Spring: 4.7 mi
Peaks: 28
Parks: 24
  • Current River State Park: 1.3 mi
  • Virgin Pine Forest: 4.1 mi
  • Sunklands-Burr Oak State Wildlife Area: 7.8 mi
  • Skunk Pond State Wildlife Management Area: 9.1 mi
  • Loggers Lake Recreation Area: 9.7 mi
Cliffs: 20
Ghost towns: 11
Attractions: 5
Historic sites: 5
Beaches: 4
  • Pulltite: 4.0 mi
  • Beach 3: 11.4 mi
  • Beach 2: 11.5 mi
  • Beach 3: 11.5 mi
Picnic sites: 3
Natural arches: 2
  • Round Spring Natural Bridge: 2.0 mi
  • Turner Natural Bridge: 11.9 mi
Museums: 2
Artworks: 1
Waterfalls: 1
  • Rocky Falls: 18.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Echo Bluff State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Red HillNE 36°410 m15.9 mi
Stegall MountainSE 144°409 m19.8 mi
Thorny MountainSE 140°405 m19.6 mi
Mule MountainSSE 148°403 m19.2 mi
Tower HillN 9°400 m16.2 mi
Wildcat MountainSE 132°385 m12.9 mi
Coot MountainSE 138°379 m12.9 mi
Tip Top MountainSE 131°377 m7.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1018:4319:18
June solstice05:4619:5120:30
September equinox06:5418:3019:04
December solstice07:1716:1116:52

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333646566473777668564536
Precip in2.73.64.14.86.24.34.64.33.83.34.13.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Round Spring 2SW, 4 mi away.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail16 obs
  • Domestic Horse14 obs
  • viper's-bugloss13 obs
  • Bleeding Shiner12 obs
  • Golden Crayfish12 obs
  • Common Watersnake9 obs
  • wild carrot9 obs
  • prairie dock9 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/732153993

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