Lafayette Park
Lafayette Park is a park in Missouri, at a modelled elevation of 411 m. North View Hill stands 444 m to the east-northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Pedalers Bicycle Museum, a museum 0.3 miles away. Historic Route 66 - MO passes 0.9 miles off. 13 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 0.9 mi off the Historic Route 66 - MO
Named places within 25 miles
- Washington Park: 0.6 mi
- Russel H. Keller Park: 0.7 mi
- Grant Beach Park: 0.8 mi
- Doling Park: 0.9 mi
- Kellogg Greenspace: 0.9 mi
- Bloody Hill: 11.1 mi
- Fair Grove Mound: 11.9 mi
- Henley Knob: 14.3 mi
- Lucas Knob: 15.3 mi
- Goodnight Knob: 15.4 mi
- Pedalers Bicycle Museum: 0.3 mi
- History Museum on the Square: 1.6 mi
- History on the Square: 1.6 mi
- Air & Military Museum: 2.4 mi
- Springfield Art Museum: 3.1 mi
- East Pacific Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- FSC Circle: 0.9 mi
- MSC Garden: 1.2 mi
- Drury Prairie: 1.3 mi
- Xeriscape Garden: 3.3 mi
- Holman: 13.4 mi
- Compton: 14.0 mi
- Gresham: 14.6 mi
- Possum Trot: 19.1 mi
- Velsor: 20.4 mi
- Garrison Spring & Gardens: 15.6 mi
- Cave Spring: 17.1 mi
- Olie Lasley Spring: 17.1 mi
- Brown Spring: 20.3 mi
- Bell Spring: 21.4 mi
- Drury Panther Statue: 1.0 mi
- Sun Target II: 3.1 mi
- Big Kraft Macaroni: 3.6 mi
- Major General Sterling Price: 4.4 mi
- Beaver Statue: 6.2 mi
- Ozarks Empire Fairgrounds: 1.6 mi
- 1984: 1.8 mi
- East Saint Louis Street: 2.1 mi
- Fantastic Caverns: 5.3 mi
- Hubble Spacecraft Statue: 22.4 mi
- Mill Bluff: 24.2 mi
- Thompson Bluff: 24.4 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 24.6 mi
- Jameson Bluff: 24.6 mi
- Devils Wash Pan: 24.7 mi
- Vietnam Memorial Garden: 4.9 mi
- Martin Luther King Jr Memorial: 6.4 mi
- Living Memorial: 7.2 mi
- Chateau Charmant: 22.9 mi
- Fellows Lake Recreation Area: 7.3 mi
- Little Sac Woods Conservation Area: 12.2 mi
- Pearl Creek Farm: 13.6 mi
- Schuette Prairie: 20.3 mi
- Truck Parking: 24.4 mi
- Truck Parking: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lafayette Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| North View Hill | ENE 73° | 444 m | 16.4 mi |
| Fair Grove Mound | NE 39° | 438 m | 11.9 mi |
| Goodnight Knob | NNE 16° | 404 m | 15.4 mi |
| Lucas Knob | NNE 22° | 402 m | 15.3 mi |
| Brushy Mound | NNE 17° | 402 m | 24.8 mi |
| Henley Knob | NNE 20° | 394 m | 14.3 mi |
| Hooten Hill | SSW 196° | 390 m | 22.0 mi |
| Bloody Hill | SW 218° | 383 m | 11.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:18 | 18:51 | 19:25 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 19:59 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:37 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:19 | 17:00 |
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 | 33 | 37 | 46 | 56 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 46 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.4 | 2.4 | 3.7 | 5.2 | 6.0 | 4.9 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Springfield WBO, 2 mi away.
- House Sparrow24 obs
- Western Honey Bee19 obs
- tree-of-heaven19 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle18 obs
- European Starling16 obs
- American pokeweed16 obs
- Northern Cardinal15 obs
- American Robin15 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/324358259
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