Ironwoods Park
Ironwoods Park is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 273 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the east-southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Prairie Oak Nature Center, a museum 0.2 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 2.7 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 273 m
How to reach it
- 2.7 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
- 17.1 mi off the Spirit of Kansas City
- 17.5 mi off the Cliff Drive
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Blind · 5 mi
- Kaw Point · 18 mi
- Scarrit Point · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Prairie Oak Nature Center: 0.2 mi
- Oxford School: 0.2 mi
- Museum at Prairiefire: 2.0 mi
- Historic State Bank of Stanley Building: 2.5 mi
- Wonderscope Children Museum: 3.4 mi
- Kenneth Road Soccer Complex: 1.2 mi
- Creekside Park: 1.7 mi
- Wilderness Lake Park: 1.8 mi
- Gezer Park: 1.8 mi
- Regency Lake Park: 1.8 mi
- Prairie Fire: 2.0 mi
- Grazing Giraffes: 2.4 mi
- Elephant Taking A Bath: 2.4 mi
- Cloud Gate: 3.0 mi
- Leawood Fine Art Gallery: 3.7 mi
- Ali Kemp Memorial: 3.5 mi
- Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 3.8 mi
- Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport: 3.9 mi
- Austin's Park Memorial: 3.9 mi
- Statue of Saint Teresa: 4.1 mi
- Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead: 4.3 mi
- Old Red Bridge Love Locks: 5.4 mi
- Candy Cane Lane: 8.7 mi
- M101: 10.1 mi
- Concorde Nose: 11.1 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 5.6 mi
- Hertha-Bethany Falls-Winterset Limestone Outcrop: 8.9 mi
- Bethany Falls & Winterset Limestone Outcrops: 10.0 mi
- Normal Fault in cliff: 10.1 mi
- Normal Fault in cliff: 10.2 mi
- Resident Gardens: 2.5 mi
- Prairie Grasses and Wildflower Garden: 9.6 mi
- Pollinator Prarie: 9.6 mi
- Bee Garden: 9.6 mi
- Bird Garden: 9.6 mi
- Overland Park: 2.5 mi
- Overland Park: 2.5 mi
- Miller Hill: 11.7 mi
- Bowler Hill: 12.7 mi
- Snowball Hill: 21.7 mi
- Blue Valley Wilderness Science Center Wilderness Area: 2.2 mi
- Saeger Woods Conservation Area: 3.2 mi
- Heartland Overlook Preserve: 7.8 mi
- Children's Memorial Butterfly Garden: 12.3 mi
- Hillsdale Recreation Area: 20.1 mi
- Powell: 10.2 mi
- West Union: 12.3 mi
- Kimpton: 17.1 mi
- Quindaro Townsite: 20.3 mi
- Swimming Beach: 18.5 mi
- Swim Beach: 18.9 mi
- Windsurfer Beach: 19.8 mi
- Miola Beach: 22.2 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 12.0 mi
- Turkey Creek Falls: 12.4 mi
- Line Creek Double Falls: 23.5 mi
- Watts Mill: 5.7 mi
- Family Picnic Area: 21.3 mi
- Pioneer Spring: 19.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Ironwoods Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Hill | ESE 118° | 342 m | 11.7 mi |
| Bowler Hill | E 81° | 330 m | 12.7 mi |
| Brookhart Hill | SE 137° | 309 m | 21.9 mi |
| Kohler Hill | SE 129° | 307 m | 23.5 mi |
| Herrell Hill | SSE 156° | 299 m | 24.2 mi |
| Christiansen Mound | SSE 160° | 299 m | 24.6 mi |
| Schindorff Hill | ESE 115° | 297 m | 23.7 mi |
| Snowball Hill | SE 139° | 295 m | 21.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:17 |
| 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, 6 mi away.
- American Toad15 obs
- Ornate Box Turtle11 obs
- common milkweed11 obs
- Common Five-lined Skink11 obs
- Amur honeysuckle11 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk10 obs
- Mallard10 obs
- mayapple10 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/193201957
Day trips start here
- Lenexa · 9 mi
- Overland Park · 9 mi
- Olathe · 10 mi
- Lee's Summit · 14 mi
- Kansas City · 17 mi
- Kansas City Area · 17 mi
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