Grassy Pond Recreation Area
Grassy Pond Recreation Area is a park in Florida, at a recorded elevation of 10 m. Garrison Hammock stands 25 m to the west-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Kerr City, a ghost town 1.6 miles away. FLORIDA BLACK BEAR passes 4.3 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 10 m
How to reach it
- 4.3 mi off the FLORIDA BLACK BEAR, National
- 18.8 mi off the OLD FLORIDA HERITAGE
- 18.1 mi off the RIV OF LKS HRTG CORR, National
- 28.6 mi off the HRTG CROSSROADS HWY
Overlooks nearby
- Giant Cypress · 5 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Moorehead Park: 1.6 mi
- Lake Delancy Recreation Area: 3.9 mi
- Gore's Landing Park: 9.4 mi
- Cougar Park: 9.7 mi
- Fore Lake Recreation Area: 10.0 mi
- Salt Springs: 4.9 mi
- Wells Landing Springs: 7.3 mi
- Tobacco Patch Springs: 7.8 mi
- Riversites Spring: 8.2 mi
- Blue Spring: 9.8 mi
- Silver River Museum and Environmental Education Center: 18.3 mi
- Appleton Museum of Art: 20.1 mi
- David Browning Railroad Museum: 21.3 mi
- Saint Johns River Center: 21.4 mi
- Putnam County Museum: 21.7 mi
- Silver Springs Forest Conservation Area: 15.4 mi
- Crones Cradle Conservation Easement: 15.8 mi
- Quail Roost Conservation Easement: 17.1 mi
- Silver Springs Sandhill: 18.8 mi
- Silver Springs Conservation Area: 19.3 mi
- Shell Mound: 21.1 mi
- Garrison Hammock: 23.1 mi
- Little Garrison Hammock: 23.3 mi
- Sunday Bluff: 5.2 mi
- Morrison Bluff: 21.5 mi
- Orange Creek Restoration Area: 15.8 mi
- Large Cypress Tree: 20.4 mi
- Edgar Post Office: 17.3 mi
- Time Capsule: 18.3 mi
- Osceola: 18.5 mi
- Bounceback Wall: 22.5 mi
- Kerr City: 1.6 mi
- Fort King Garden: 21.1 mi
- Hampton Beach: 24.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Grassy Pond Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garrison Hammock | WNW 297° | 25 m | 23.1 mi |
| Little Garrison Hammock | WNW 296° | 21 m | 23.3 mi |
| Shell Mound | SE 130° | 2 m | 21.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:32 | 19:08 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 06:29 | 19:56 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:54 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 16:58 | 17:34 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–Jun.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 55 | 58 | 63 | 68 | 75 | 79 | 81 | 81 | 79 | 71 | 63 | 57 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 7.2 | 7.0 | 7.9 | 7.1 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Orange Springs 2ssw, 12 mi away.
- American Black Bear9 obs
- American beautyberry9 obs
- Pigeonwings9 obs
- Florida Indian Plantain9 obs
- woolly pawpaw9 obs
- Scurf Hoarypea9 obs
- Florida Pricklypear8 obs
- Gopher apple8 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/358731985
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