Emanuel Creek Recreation Area
Emanuel Creek Recreation Area is a park in South Dakota, at a recorded elevation of 372 m. Stony Butte stands 515 m to the southwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Santee Sioux Recreation Park, a park 3.5 miles away. Outlaw Trail passes 6.0 miles off. 51 named places lie within 25 miles, 2 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 372 m
How to reach it
- 6.0 mi off the Outlaw Trail
51 named places within 25 miles
- Santee Sioux Recreation Park: 3.5 mi
- Lewis and Clark State Recreation Area: 4.3 mi
- Sand Creek Recreation Area: 4.8 mi
- Bazile Creek State Wildlife Management Area: 5.6 mi
- Snatch Creek Recreation Area: 6.4 mi
- Niobrara State Park: 9.4 mi
- Bohemia Prairie Wildlife Management Area: 15.7 mi
- John Emerson Wildlife Management Area: 23.6 mi
- John Emerson Wildlife Management Area: 24.2 mi
- Maidens Leap: 6.1 mi
- Stony Butte: 19.5 mi
- Ponca Tribe Museum: 8.7 mi
- Verdigre Heritage Museum: 17.7 mi
- Pebble Beach: 16.1 mi
- Hobie Cat Beach: 21.1 mi
- Calumet Bluff: 22.2 mi
- Yankton Sioux Monument: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Emanuel Creek Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Butte | SW 231° | 515 m | 19.5 mi |
| Maidens Leap | SSW 198° | 394 m | 6.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:07 | 19:44 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:31 | 21:14 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:53 | 19:31 |
| December solstice | 08:00 | 16:15 | 17:01 |
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 | 24 | 28 | 39 | 51 | 62 | 72 | 76 | 74 | 66 | 53 | 38 | 27 |
| Precip in | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Niobrara, 9 mi away.
- Common Pill Woodlouse2 obs
- Black Swallowtail2 obs
- Differential Grasshopper2 obs
- Wild Turkey1 obs
- Mourning Dove1 obs
- Great Blue Heron1 obs
- Bald Eagle1 obs
- Canada Goose1 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/357095899
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