Fort Rucker Recreation Area
Fort Rucker Recreation Area is a park in Florida, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Sandy Mountain stands 90 m to the north, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Choctaw Beach Park, a park 1.2 miles away. SCENIC HIGHWAY 30-A passes 6.3 miles off. 13 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
How to reach it
- 6.3 mi off the SCENIC HIGHWAY 30-A, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Choctaw Beach Park: 1.2 mi
- Choctaw Beach Community Center Park: 2.0 mi
- Basin Bayou State Recreation Area: 4.2 mi
- Driftwood Park: 4.5 mi
- Seminole Park: 5.6 mi
- Sea Cliffs Townhomes: 11.4 mi
- Walton County Confederate Monument: 20.7 mi
- Colonel Hart Memorial: 23.1 mi
- Osprey CV-22 Memorial: 23.1 mi
- Combat Talon: 23.6 mi
- Dockside Watersports: 12.8 mi
- F-15 Nomad: 13.6 mi
- F-86 Sabre: 14.9 mi
- F-89J Scorpion: 14.9 mi
- RB-47H Stratojet: 14.9 mi
- Topsail Hill: 7.6 mi
- Scrub Hill: 12.0 mi
- Sandy Mountain: 13.0 mi
- Rock Hill: 14.9 mi
- Dykes Hill: 21.8 mi
- Mattie Kelley Visual Arts Gallery: 10.5 mi
- Heritage Museum of Northwest Florida: 10.8 mi
- Destin History & Fishing Museum: 13.0 mi
- Air Force Armament Museum: 14.9 mi
- Indian Temple Mound Museum: 18.3 mi
- Public Beach: 9.3 mi
- Princess Beach: 14.8 mi
- Seacrest Beach: 19.1 mi
- Alys Beach: 21.3 mi
- Eastern Green Beach: 22.7 mi
- EFC Veteran Memorial fountain: 17.0 mi
- 823d Bulldozer: 22.0 mi
- Red Horse Statue: 22.1 mi
- ZPU23-4: 22.4 mi
- Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park: 7.3 mi
- E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center: 15.3 mi
- Veterans Park Rookery: 17.6 mi
- Topsail Bluff: 7.4 mi
- Rattlesnake Bluff: 24.5 mi
- Howell Bluff: 24.7 mi
- Eglin Blue Spring: 14.4 mi
- Euchee Spring: 19.2 mi
- Ecuchee Spring: 19.3 mi
- Okaloosa County Rest Area Eastbound: 20.8 mi
- Okaloosa County Rest Area Westbound: 21.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Fort Rucker Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy Mountain | N 7° | 90 m | 13.0 mi |
| Fox Hill | N 3° | 84 m | 24.2 mi |
| Ray Hill | ENE 59° | 68 m | 24.6 mi |
| Rock Hill | NE 55° | 62 m | 14.9 mi |
| Dykes Hill | ENE 66° | 56 m | 21.8 mi |
| McKinnon Hill | ENE 67° | 56 m | 22.8 mi |
| Laurel Hill | ENE 70° | 54 m | 24.1 mi |
| Big Hill | ENE 68° | 53 m | 23.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:25 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:16 | 19:51 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:12 | 18:43 |
| December solstice | 06:39 | 16:13 | 16:49 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 54 | 57 | 62 | 68 | 76 | 82 | 84 | 83 | 81 | 72 | 63 | 57 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 3.2 | 4.7 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 5.2 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Destin FT Walton Beach AP, 11 mi away.
- Long-tailed Skipper5 obs
- Spotted Sandpiper5 obs
- netted chain fern5 obs
- Eastern Lubber Grasshopper5 obs
- Southern Toad4 obs
- White beggarticks4 obs
- Green Anole3 obs
- Cloudless Sulphur3 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/358696102
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