Highland View Park
Highland View Park is a park in Kansas, at a modelled elevation of 327 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the east-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Kingston Lake Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 0.8 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 0.8 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
- 18.0 mi off the Spirit of Kansas City
- 18.8 mi off the Cliff Drive
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Blind · 4 mi
- Kaw Point · 19 mi
- Scarrit Point · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Kingston Lake Park: 0.8 mi
- Wellington Park: 0.8 mi
- Kingston Lake Park: 0.8 mi
- Nottingham Forest Park: 1.1 mi
- Brittany Park: 1.2 mi
- Grazing Giraffes: 1.6 mi
- Elephant Taking A Bath: 1.6 mi
- Prairie Fire: 2.9 mi
- Two frogs by Elliott Carlson: 3.7 mi
- Geometric stratum by Tom Brewitz: 3.7 mi
- Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 1.6 mi
- Austin's Park Memorial: 2.4 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 3.3 mi
- Korean War Veterans Memorial: 4.0 mi
- Ali Kemp Memorial: 5.0 mi
- Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead: 1.7 mi
- M101: 6.6 mi
- Old Red Bridge Love Locks: 8.1 mi
- Candy Cane Lane: 9.2 mi
- Concorde Nose: 12.4 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 5.5 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 10.8 mi
- Hertha-Bethany Falls-Winterset Limestone Outcrop: 11.4 mi
- Bethany Falls & Winterset Limestone Outcrops: 13.2 mi
- Normal Fault in cliff: 13.4 mi
- Historic State Bank of Stanley Building: 1.0 mi
- Museum at Prairiefire: 2.8 mi
- Prairie Oak Nature Center: 3.6 mi
- Oxford School: 3.7 mi
- Wonderscope Children Museum: 4.2 mi
- Resident Gardens: 2.1 mi
- Bee Garden: 6.3 mi
- Prairie Grasses and Wildflower Garden: 6.3 mi
- Pollinator Prarie: 6.3 mi
- Bird Garden: 6.3 mi
- Blue Valley Wilderness Science Center Wilderness Area: 3.4 mi
- Saeger Woods Conservation Area: 6.6 mi
- Heartland Overlook Preserve: 10.2 mi
- Children's Memorial Butterfly Garden: 15.7 mi
- Hillsdale Recreation Area: 17.1 mi
- Overland Park: 1.4 mi
- Overland Park: 1.4 mi
- Miller Hill: 14.8 mi
- Bowler Hill: 16.2 mi
- Observation Bluff: 19.5 mi
- Powell: 11.1 mi
- West Union: 13.8 mi
- Kimpton: 19.8 mi
- Quindaro Townsite: 20.7 mi
- Swim Beach: 15.6 mi
- Windsurfer Beach: 17.1 mi
- Miola Beach: 20.3 mi
- Swimming Beach: 21.6 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 8.5 mi
- Turkey Creek Falls: 12.3 mi
- Line Creek Double Falls: 24.2 mi
- Watts Mill: 7.6 mi
- Family Picnic Area: 24.0 mi
- Pioneer Spring: 22.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Highland View Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Hill | ESE 110° | 342 m | 14.8 mi |
| Bowler Hill | E 82° | 330 m | 16.2 mi |
| Brookhart Hill | SE 131° | 309 m | 24.2 mi |
| Snowball Hill | SE 132° | 295 m | 23.8 mi |
| Bieger Mound | SSE 152° | 289 m | 24.5 mi |
| Observation Bluff | W 281° | 277 m | 19.5 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 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 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 | 30 | 35 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 74 | 78 | 77 | 68 | 57 | 44 | 34 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 3.9 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe Johnson CO Executive AP, 3 mi away.
- Mallard20 obs
- Amur honeysuckle19 obs
- American Robin17 obs
- North American Wheel Bug15 obs
- Northern Cardinal13 obs
- American pokeweed13 obs
- Great Blue Heron11 obs
- Monarch11 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 way/469115300
Day trips start here
- Olathe · 6 mi
- Lenexa · 7 mi
- Overland Park · 9 mi
- Kansas City · 18 mi
- Kansas City Area · 18 mi
- Kansas City · 18 mi
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