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Lemmon Petrified Wood Park

Lemmon Petrified Wood Park from directly overhead

Lemmon Petrified Wood Park is a park in South Dakota, at a modelled elevation of 782 m. White Butte stands 888 m to the west-southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Lemmon Petrified Wood Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. 48 named places lie within 25 miles, 23 of them named summits.

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Coordinates45.93939, -102.15864
Around it

48 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 23
  • Robbers Butte: 6.8 mi
  • Thunder Hawk Butte: 9.6 mi
  • Round Top: 11.6 mi
  • Twin Buttes: 11.6 mi
  • Spring Butte: 11.8 mi
Parks: 9
  • Lemmon City Park: 0.1 mi
  • Boss Cowman Square: 0.2 mi
  • North Lemmon Park: 0.6 mi
  • North Lemmon Lake State Game Management Area: 5.1 mi
  • Lemmon Lake State Game Production Area: 13.0 mi
Historic sites: 9
Museums: 3
  • Lemmon Petrified Wood Museum: 0.0 mi
  • Grand River Museum: 0.4 mi
  • Dakota Buttes Museum: 22.9 mi
Nature reserves: 2
Artworks: 1
  • Cowboy Riding a Dinosaur: 0.3 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lemmon Petrified Wood Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
White ButteWSW 242°888 m13.1 mi
Castle ButteW 270°869 m17.6 mi
Long ButteNNW 342°854 m15.4 mi
Pearl ButteNW 310°850 m16.5 mi
Kid Rich ButteW 264°843 m22.1 mi
Taylor ButteNW 307°842 m24.8 mi
Pretty Rock ButteNE 50°838 m21.8 mi
Big ButteWNW 282°837 m19.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2219:01
June solstice04:5919:5720:44
September equinox06:3618:0918:48
December solstice07:2815:1716:07

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F192233455666737162473322
Precip in0.30.50.81.72.83.02.72.11.51.50.60.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lemmon, under a mile away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Ring-necked Pheasant2 obs
  • Yellow Sweetclover2 obs
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee2 obs
  • White Dapperling2 obs
  • Killdeer1 obs
  • Mule Deer1 obs
  • Western Honey Bee1 obs
  • Shaggy Mane1 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/649696775

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