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Frontier Park

Frontier Park from directly overhead

Frontier Park is a park in Kansas, at a modelled elevation of 298 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the east-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Indian Creek Greenway, a park 0.3 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 3.2 miles off. 6 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates38.89299, -94.76419

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
  • Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 1.6 mi
  • Sprout: 2.9 mi
  • Theb: 3.0 mi
  • Hybrid Circle: 3.7 mi
  • "The Serpent": 5.3 mi
Museums
  • Kansas City Automotive Museum: 1.7 mi
  • Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture: 2.7 mi
  • Legler Barn Museum: 5.4 mi
  • Historic State Bank of Stanley Building: 5.5 mi
  • Museum at Prairiefire: 6.1 mi
Historic sites
  • Cannon: 3.1 mi
  • Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 3.9 mi
  • Austin's Park Memorial: 4.0 mi
  • 9/11 Memorial: 4.4 mi
  • Korean War Veterans Memorial: 4.9 mi
Attractions
Gardens: 27
  • K-State Garden Gallery: 2.4 mi
  • Prairie Grasses and Wildflower Garden: 2.4 mi
  • Pollinator Prarie: 2.4 mi
  • Bird Garden: 2.4 mi
  • Bee Garden: 2.4 mi
Nature reserves: 13
Peaks: 6
  • Overland Park: 5.2 mi
  • Overland Park: 5.2 mi
  • Observation Bluff: 15.3 mi
  • Miller Hill: 19.3 mi
  • Bowler Hill: 19.9 mi
Ghost towns: 6
Beaches: 4
  • Swim Beach: 11.3 mi
  • Windsurfer Beach: 17.1 mi
  • Miola Beach: 21.5 mi
  • Swimming Beach: 24.1 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Cedar Lake Falls: 5.5 mi
  • Turkey Creek Falls: 10.5 mi
  • Line Creek Double Falls: 22.8 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Watts Mill: 9.2 mi
Springs: 1
  • Pioneer Spring: 23.5 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Miller HillESE 113°342 m19.3 mi
Bowler HillE 91°330 m19.9 mi
Blue MoundW 272°318 m22.5 mi
Observation BluffW 274°277 m15.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2318:5619:31
June solstice05:5520:0920:48
September equinox07:0718:4319:18
December solstice07:3516:1917:01

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293444556574797769574534
Precip in1.31.72.54.15.35.24.74.54.23.02.41.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe 3E, under a mile away.

  • White-tailed Deer44 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel32 obs
  • Amur honeysuckle31 obs
  • Osage-orange28 obs
  • Differential Grasshopper28 obs
  • Blanchard's Cricket Frog27 obs
  • Great Blue Heron23 obs
  • eastern redcedar23 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/107391623

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