Gardner Lake Park
Gardner Lake Park is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 305 m. Blue Mound stands 318 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Kill Creek Streamway Park, a park 1.6 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 11 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 305 m
How to reach it
- 10.6 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
- 24.7 mi off the Spirit of Kansas City
- 26.4 mi off the Cliff Drive
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Blind · 14 mi
- Kaw Point · 25 mi
- Scarrit Point · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Kill Creek Streamway Park: 1.6 mi
- Gardner Celebration Park: 2.2 mi
- Navy Park: 2.3 mi
- Winwood Park: 2.5 mi
- Olathe Prairie Center: 2.6 mi
- Trails West: 5.7 mi
- Sprout: 6.5 mi
- Theb: 6.6 mi
- Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 8.1 mi
- "The Serpent": 12.2 mi
- M101: 6.3 mi
- Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead: 12.3 mi
- Midland Railway Baldwin City Depot: 15.5 mi
- Candy Cane Lane: 17.5 mi
- Grinter Place State Historic Site: 17.7 mi
- Cannon: 6.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial Plaza: 7.9 mi
- Dorothy Akin Memorial Prairie: 12.7 mi
- Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 12.8 mi
- Austin's Park Memorial: 13.2 mi
- Gardner Historical Museum: 2.9 mi
- Lanesfield Historic Site: 5.6 mi
- Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture: 6.6 mi
- Ensor Park and Museum: 7.8 mi
- Monticello Community Historical Society: 9.4 mi
- Green Tech Garden: 4.7 mi
- Monarch Garden: 6.9 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 6.9 mi
- Bee Garden: 6.9 mi
- Bird Garden: 7.0 mi
- Hillsdale Recreation Area: 10.8 mi
- Douglas State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area: 13.1 mi
- Rice Woodland: 13.9 mi
- Breidenthal Biological Reserve: 14.4 mi
- Roy and Eleanor Wall Woods: 14.9 mi
- Observation Bluff: 7.4 mi
- Overland Park: 13.9 mi
- Overland Park: 13.9 mi
- Blue Mound: 14.0 mi
- Fowler Hill: 17.2 mi
- Franklin: 14.3 mi
- Prairie City: 16.5 mi
- Dennison: 19.3 mi
- Powell: 20.6 mi
- Hackett: 21.4 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 10.9 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 14.9 mi
- Badger Ridge: 20.4 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 21.6 mi
- Westerville Limestone Outcrop: 21.7 mi
- Swim Beach: 4.7 mi
- Windsurfer Beach: 12.8 mi
- Miola Beach: 18.9 mi
- Bloomington Beach: 23.8 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 4.4 mi
- Turkey Creek Falls: 18.0 mi
- Wakarusa River Falls: 21.7 mi
- Watts Mill: 18.5 mi
- Overlook Park Shelter 1: 22.8 mi
- Overlook Park Shelter 2: 22.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Gardner Lake Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mound | WNW 285° | 318 m | 14.0 mi |
| Fowler Hill | SW 233° | 318 m | 17.2 mi |
| Mount Oread | WNW 294° | 316 m | 18.8 mi |
| Shank Hill | W 278° | 304 m | 18.0 mi |
| Sanders Mound | WNW 284° | 288 m | 22.7 mi |
| Observation Bluff | WNW 301° | 277 m | 7.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:57 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:09 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:20 | 17:02 |
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 | 30 | 34 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 75 | 79 | 77 | 69 | 57 | 44 | 34 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe Johnson CO IND AP, 3 mi away.
- Monarch38 obs
- Eastern Bluebird26 obs
- Dark-eyed Junco25 obs
- White-crowned Sparrow23 obs
- Harris's Sparrow23 obs
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird21 obs
- White-throated Sparrow21 obs
- Common Five-lined Skink19 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/358644337
Day trips start here
- Olathe · 7 mi
- Lenexa · 13 mi
- Overland Park · 17 mi
- Kansas City · 24 mi
- Kansas City · 25 mi
- Kansas City Area · 25 mi
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