Joe Creason Park
Joe Creason Park is a park in Kentucky, at a modelled elevation of 162 m. Round Knob stands 304 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Butterfly Garden, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. River Road passes 3.8 miles off.
How to reach it
- 3.8 mi off the River Road
- 5.2 mi off the Indiana's Historic Pathways, National
- 4.4 mi off the Ohio River Scenic Byway, National
- 165.2 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Louisville Zoo: 0.4 mi
- Cyril Allgeier Park: 0.8 mi
- Camp Taylor Memorial Park: 1.0 mi
- Cross Bill: 1.2 mi
- George Rogers Clark Park: 1.2 mi
- Crescent Hill: 3.1 mi
- Kenwood Hill: 5.2 mi
- Finley Hill: 6.6 mi
- Red Stone Hill: 6.8 mi
- Evergreen Hill: 7.2 mi
- Sculpture Garden: 0.9 mi
- John Hultgren Photography: 2.5 mi
- Pegasus (sculpture): 2.6 mi
- Leonard "Lenny" Lyles: 2.7 mi
- Hunters: 2.8 mi
- Gorilla Sanctuary: 0.3 mi
- Pygmy Hippo Area: 0.3 mi
- Naked Mole Rat Area: 0.3 mi
- Giraffe Area: 0.3 mi
- Warthog Area: 0.3 mi
- Daniel Boone statue: 1.7 mi
- John B. Castleman Monument: 1.7 mi
- Muhammad Ali’s grave: 2.2 mi
- Col. Harland Sander’s grave: 2.5 mi
- Jack Segell Memorial: 2.8 mi
- Colonel Sanders Museum: 1.0 mi
- J B Speed Art Museum: 3.0 mi
- Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind: 3.2 mi
- 1883 Gallery: 3.2 mi
- Conrad-Caldwell House Museum: 3.4 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 0.3 mi
- Jefferson Memorial Forest: 9.0 mi
- Jefferson Memorial Forest: 9.6 mi
- Horine Reservation: 9.8 mi
- Jefferson Memorial Forest: 10.2 mi
- Picnic-in-the-Park Pavilions: 2.4 mi
- Picnic Area: 3.8 mi
- Picnic Area: 3.8 mi
- Picnic Area: 3.8 mi
- The Woodland Pavillion: 11.3 mi
- Vault Point: 12.4 mi
- Blunk Point: 12.6 mi
- Water: 16.3 mi
- Cedar Point: 19.5 mi
- Cedar Point: 20.5 mi
- Community Garden: 2.0 mi
- Waterfront Botanical Gardens: 3.8 mi
- Iroquois Flowers: 4.3 mi
- Underground Railroad Gardens: 8.0 mi
- Scribner Garden: 8.1 mi
- Distillerie Four Roses: 21.0 mi
- Miles Spring: 22.2 mi
- Grable Spring: 22.5 mi
- Oldham County (Crestwood) Northbound Rest Area: 13.5 mi
- Bullitt County Welcome Center: 18.3 mi
- Fairmont Falls Arch: 10.7 mi
- Fairmont Falls: 10.7 mi
- Springville: 15.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.9 miles of Joe Creason Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round Knob | NNW 339° | 304 m | 22.9 mi |
| Hickman Hill | W 280° | 302 m | 12.4 mi |
| Dawson Knob | SSW 192° | 295 m | 20.5 mi |
| Spickert Knob | NW 319° | 289 m | 11.8 mi |
| Cubby House Hill | NNW 328° | 273 m | 20.6 mi |
| Brooks Hill | S 191° | 269 m | 10.3 mi |
| Hounds Leap | NNW 329° | 264 m | 20.0 mi |
| Lost Knob | NW 315° | 263 m | 11.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:47 | 19:20 | 19:55 |
| June solstice | 06:21 | 20:31 | 21:10 |
| September equinox | 07:31 | 19:07 | 19:42 |
| December solstice | 07:57 | 16:45 | 17:27 |
Local time (America/Kentucky/Louisville).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 39 | 47 | 58 | 67 | 75 | 79 | 78 | 70 | 59 | 47 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Louisville Bowman FLD, 3 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel185 obs
- Monarch176 obs
- American pokeweed173 obs
- American Robin153 obs
- fortune's spindle150 obs
- Virginia Springbeauty137 obs
- White-tailed Deer132 obs
- Amur honeysuckle130 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/59736410
Day trips start here
- Louisville · 4 mi
- Saint Matthews · 4 mi
- Jeffersonville · 6 mi
- Clarksville · 7 mi
- Jeffersontown · 7 mi
- New Albany · 8 mi
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