Lesterville Recreation Area
Lesterville Recreation Area is a park in South Dakota, at a recorded elevation of 381 m. Maidens Leap stands 394 m to the west-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Pebble Beach, a beach 0.5 miles away. Outlaw Trail passes 9.5 miles off. 60 named places lie within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 381 m
How to reach it
- 9.5 mi off the Outlaw Trail
60 named places within 25 miles
- Sioux Council Boy Scout Reservation: 0.9 mi
- Gavins Point Recreation Area: 1.9 mi
- Lewis and Clark Lake State Recreation Area: 1.9 mi
- Midway Recreation Area: 3.0 mi
- Bloomfield Recreation Area: 3.3 mi
- Gayville Veterans Memorial: 21.1 mi
- Wynot Area Veterans Memorial: 22.9 mi
- Hartington, Home of Two Nebraska Governors Historical Marker: 23.5 mi
- Cedar County Historical Marker: 23.6 mi
- Mead Museum / Dakota Territorial Museum: 9.9 mi
- Cedar County Historical Museum: 23.5 mi
- Ponca Tribe Museum: 23.9 mi
- Pebble Beach: 0.5 mi
- Hobie Cat Beach: 4.6 mi
- Calumet Bluff: 5.8 mi
- Maidens Leap: 19.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lesterville Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maidens Leap | WSW 248° | 394 m | 19.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:05 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:30 | 21:13 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:52 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:59 | 16:14 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 20 | 24 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 64 | 50 | 36 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Crofton, 10 mi away.
- Great Plains yucca9 obs
- garlic mustard7 obs
- large-flowered beardtongue6 obs
- Wild Turkey5 obs
- American hophornbeam5 obs
- basswood5 obs
- eastern poison ivy5 obs
- redwhisker clammyweed5 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 node/357084364
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