Emerson Park
Emerson Park is a park in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 370 m. Lookout Hill stands 411 m to the west-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Latham Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Loess Hills Scenic Byway passes 2.1 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 370 m
How to reach it
- 2.1 mi off the Loess Hills Scenic Byway, National
- 3.9 mi off the Lewis & Clark Scenic Byway
- 3.9 mi off the Outlaw Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Mount Lucia · 8 mi
- Gobbler Point · 9 mi
- Kestrel Point · 9 mi
- Bobsled Run · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Latham Park: 0.5 mi
- Ruegger Complex: 0.8 mi
- Spalding Park: 1.5 mi
- Lewis Park: 1.5 mi
- South Ravine Park: 1.8 mi
- Sacajawea Park: 2.1 mi
- Wimson Park: 3.5 mi
- Baker Park: 4.1 mi
- Sioux City State Prairie Preserve: 6.3 mi
- Dakota Bend Wildlife Management Area: 7.4 mi
- First Bride's Grave: 2.0 mi
- First Bride's Grave: 2.0 mi
- Sergeant Floyd Monument: 2.1 mi
- Siouxland Freedom Park: 2.7 mi
- Flight 232 Memorial: 4.1 mi
- Jolly Time Koated Kernels: 3.6 mi
- Sioux City Art Center: 3.9 mi
- Sioux City Public Museum: 3.9 mi
- Mid America Air Museum: 4.0 mi
- LaunchPAD Children's Museum: 4.3 mi
- Old Town: 14.1 mi
- Train: 14.1 mi
- Sea Ray Sandbar: 24.7 mi
- Kiddie Barn: 24.7 mi
- West Side Sea Ray Sandbar: 24.9 mi
- This Is Sioux CIty: 3.6 mi
- Abraham Lincoln Statue: 5.0 mi
- Towers of Time: 21.0 mi
- Harp: 23.6 mi
- Dodds: 7.6 mi
- Stevens: 9.2 mi
- Peiro: 20.5 mi
- Lucky Valley: 21.1 mi
- Dale Street Community Garden: 4.3 mi
- Dale G Bell Memorial Arboretum: 11.2 mi
- Dakota Point: 9.2 mi
- Lookout Hill: 21.2 mi
- Sergeant Bluff: 4.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Emerson Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lookout Hill | WNW 296° | 411 m | 21.2 mi |
| Dakota Point | NW 312° | 394 m | 9.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:30 | 19:01 | 19:38 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 20:24 | 21:07 |
| September equinox | 07:13 | 18:47 | 19:24 |
| December solstice | 07:52 | 16:10 | 16:56 |
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 | 19 | 24 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 70 | 75 | 72 | 64 | 51 | 36 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 1.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sioux City ANG, 5 mi away.
- white snakeroot13 obs
- Black Swallowtail10 obs
- hoary vervain9 obs
- Monarch8 obs
- Northern Cardinal7 obs
- smooth sumac7 obs
- common milkweed6 obs
- horseweed6 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 way/552502134
Day trips start here
- Sioux City · 4 mi
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