Legion Park
Legion Park is a park in Wisconsin, at a modelled elevation of 316 m. Platte Mounds stands 435 m to the east-northeast, 3.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Smith Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Great River Road passes 10 miles off. 21 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 10.3 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 30.3 mi off the Lower Wisconsin River Road Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Allison Point · 17 mi
- Shiras Point · 17 mi
- River Viewing Point · 17 mi
- Horseshoe Bluff · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Smith Park: 0.4 mi
- Prairie View Park: 0.5 mi
- Indian Park: 0.5 mi
- Mound View Park: 0.6 mi
- Highland Park: 0.6 mi
- Igor the Mouse: 18.6 mi
- An Ode to the River: 19.2 mi
- Kerouac Quotation: 19.2 mi
- Portal: 19.3 mi
- Owl's Moon: 19.3 mi
- Belmont - Wisconsin Territory 1836: 5.7 mi
- 1998 Wisconsin Assembly: 5.7 mi
- Governor Tommy G. Thompson's 1998 Address at Wisconsin's First Capitol: 5.7 mi
- Old Rock Church: 11.1 mi
- Wisconsin Lead Region: 16.0 mi
- Platte Mound M: 3.4 mi
- Waterfall: 5.5 mi
- First Capitol Historical Site: 5.7 mi
- The Grotto: 10.3 mi
- Dark Chambers Haunted Attraction: 14.9 mi
- The Mining and Rollo Jamison Museum: 0.9 mi
- Passage Thru Time Museum: 12.9 mi
- ABA National Brewery Museum: 13.8 mi
- Grant County History Museum: 14.1 mi
- Wisconsin Odd Fellow Rebekah Museum: 16.7 mi
- Platte Mounds: 3.5 mi
- Little Mound: 4.2 mi
- Belmont Mound: 6.3 mi
- Sinsinawa Mound: 15.6 mi
- White Hill: 18.6 mi
- Platteville Mound Park: 3.4 mi
- Ipswich Prairie State Natural Area: 4.1 mi
- Belmont Prairie State Natural Area: 5.5 mi
- Belmont Mound State Park: 6.3 mi
- SW WI Grassland & Stream Conservation Area - Davis Unit: 17.6 mi
- Sinnipee: 15.1 mi
- Pendarvis: 17.1 mi
- Pleasant Ridge: 18.4 mi
- Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens: 19.3 mi
- Dubuque Rescue Mission Garden: 19.7 mi
- Hosta Garden: 23.2 mi
- Marsden Well: 23.2 mi
- Big Spring: 23.2 mi
- Cleary Spring: 24.1 mi
- Tennyson Falls: 10.3 mi
- Thunder Bay Falls: 24.4 mi
- Kellys Bluff: 20.0 mi
- Horseshoe Bluff: 21.2 mi
- Grant County Rest Area 106: 17.3 mi
- Beach @ Black Hawk Lake Recreation Area: 21.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Legion Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platte Mounds | ENE 68° | 435 m | 3.5 mi |
| Belmont Mound | ENE 75° | 427 m | 6.3 mi |
| Little Mound | ENE 73° | 389 m | 4.2 mi |
| White Hill | SE 139° | 381 m | 18.6 mi |
| Sherrill Mound | WSW 240° | 374 m | 19.3 mi |
| Charles Mound | SE 145° | 374 m | 20.3 mi |
| Scales Mound | SSE 152° | 356 m | 21.7 mi |
| Balltown Ridge | WSW 252° | 355 m | 23.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:37 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 20:01 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:46 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 18 | 22 | 34 | 46 | 58 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 62 | 50 | 36 | 24 |
| Precip in | 1.2 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 6.0 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 2.8 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Platteville, under a mile away.
- White-tailed Deer30 obs
- dame's rocket28 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel27 obs
- Reddish-brown Stag Beetle17 obs
- American Robin15 obs
- ground-ivy14 obs
- great mullein13 obs
- wild carrot12 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/46110921
Day trips start here
- Dubuque · 20 mi
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