Frontier Pool
Frontier Pool is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 320 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the east-southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Frontier Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 3.2 miles off. 6 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 320 m
How to reach it
- 3.2 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
- 17.1 mi off the Spirit of Kansas City
- 18.4 mi off the Cliff Drive
- 29.5 mi off the Glacial Hills Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Blind · 8 mi
- Kaw Point · 17 mi
- Scarrit Point · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Frontier Park: 0.5 mi
- Arapaho Park: 0.6 mi
- Indian Creek Greenway: 0.6 mi
- Indian Creek Greenway: 0.7 mi
- Woodbrook Park: 1.0 mi
- Kansas City Automotive Museum: 1.6 mi
- Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture: 2.4 mi
- Legler Barn Museum: 5.1 mi
- Historic State Bank of Stanley Building: 6.0 mi
- Museum at Prairiefire: 6.5 mi
- Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 1.6 mi
- Theb: 2.6 mi
- Sprout: 2.6 mi
- Hybrid Circle: 3.9 mi
- "The Serpent": 5.0 mi
- Cannon: 3.0 mi
- Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 4.4 mi
- Austin's Park Memorial: 4.5 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 4.8 mi
- Korean War Veterans Memorial: 5.2 mi
- M101: 3.0 mi
- Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead: 3.9 mi
- Candy Cane Lane: 8.8 mi
- Old Red Bridge Love Locks: 11.0 mi
- Grinter Place State Historic Site: 12.2 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 5.9 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 6.2 mi
- Badger Ridge: 12.8 mi
- Hertha-Bethany Falls-Winterset Limestone Outcrop: 13.4 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 13.5 mi
- K-State Garden Gallery: 1.8 mi
- Prairie Grasses and Wildflower Garden: 2.2 mi
- Pollinator Prarie: 2.2 mi
- Bird Garden: 2.2 mi
- Bee Garden: 2.2 mi
- Blue Valley Wilderness Science Center Wilderness Area: 8.5 mi
- Saeger Woods Conservation Area: 10.7 mi
- Heartland Overlook Preserve: 12.4 mi
- Hillsdale Recreation Area: 16.4 mi
- Children's Memorial Butterfly Garden: 19.3 mi
- Overland Park: 5.7 mi
- Overland Park: 5.7 mi
- Observation Bluff: 14.9 mi
- Miller Hill: 19.8 mi
- Bowler Hill: 20.3 mi
- Powell: 15.9 mi
- Quindaro Townsite: 18.7 mi
- West Union: 18.7 mi
- Franklin: 21.9 mi
- Delaware City: 23.3 mi
- Swim Beach: 10.9 mi
- Windsurfer Beach: 17.2 mi
- Miola Beach: 21.7 mi
- Swimming Beach: 24.4 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 5.4 mi
- Turkey Creek Falls: 10.5 mi
- Line Creek Double Falls: 22.7 mi
- Watts Mill: 9.5 mi
- Pioneer Spring: 23.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Frontier Pool. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Hill | ESE 114° | 342 m | 19.8 mi |
| Bowler Hill | E 92° | 330 m | 20.3 mi |
| Blue Mound | W 271° | 318 m | 22.0 mi |
| Observation Bluff | W 273° | 277 m | 14.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:55 | 20:09 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:19 | 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 | 29 | 34 | 44 | 55 | 65 | 74 | 79 | 77 | 69 | 57 | 45 | 34 |
| Precip in | 1.3 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 1.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe 3E, under a mile away.
- White-tailed Deer35 obs
- Differential Grasshopper32 obs
- Amur honeysuckle32 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel29 obs
- Great Blue Heron28 obs
- Osage-orange27 obs
- Blanchard's Cricket Frog27 obs
- eastern redcedar24 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/358644298
Day trips start here
- Olathe · 2 mi
- Lenexa · 4 mi
- Overland Park · 8 mi
- Kansas City · 17 mi
- Kansas City Area · 17 mi
- Kansas City · 17 mi
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