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Manatee Mineral Springs Park

Manatee Mineral Springs Park from directly overhead

Manatee Mineral Springs Park is a park in Florida, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Big Cockroach Mound stands 7 m to the north, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Manatee Mineral Spring, a spring less than a tenth of a mile away. TAMIAMI TRAIL HWY (OBS) passes 0.8 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates27.49766, -82.54934

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Norma Lloyd Park: 1.0 mi
  • Bradenton Riverwalk: 1.2 mi
  • Palmetto Estuary Nature Preserve: 1.3 mi
  • Riverside Park: 1.7 mi
  • Lamb Park: 2.1 mi
Artworks: 48
Museums: 38
Historic sites: 33
Beaches: 28
Gardens: 18
  • Secret Garden: 7.9 mi
  • Drawf Garden: 8.0 mi
  • Mabel Ringling's Rose Garden: 8.0 mi
  • Sarasota Garden Club: 10.8 mi
  • Merchants Community Garden: 11.7 mi
Nature reserves: 17
  • Neal Preserve: 8.4 mi
  • Quick Point Nature Preserve: 11.3 mi
  • Camp Bayou Nature Preserve: 14.9 mi
  • Red Bug Slough Preserve: 15.1 mi
  • Red Bug Slough Preserve: 15.4 mi
Attractions: 12
  • Lincoln Park: 2.2 mi
  • Manatee County Fair: 2.7 mi
  • Linder Turf and Tractor: 3.7 mi
  • Passage Key Dolphin Tours: 9.2 mi
  • Public Beach Access Point: 9.9 mi
Picnic sites: 4
Peaks: 3
  • Portavant Indian Mound: 5.2 mi
  • Big Cockroach Mound: 13.0 mi
  • Caloosa Indian Mound: 22.4 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Manatee Mineral Spring: 0.0 mi
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Big Cockroach MoundN 7°7 m13.0 mi
Caloosa Indian MoundSE 128°6 m22.4 mi
Portavant Indian MoundWNW 296°1 m5.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3519:1119:42
June solstice06:3619:5520:29
September equinox07:1918:5719:28
December solstice07:1717:0617:41

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F626568737882848482776965
Precip in2.82.03.12.53.59.08.910.17.42.91.82.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bradenton 5 ESE, 5 mi away.

  • Brown Anole53 obs
  • Atala43 obs
  • Brown Pelican36 obs
  • Great Egret24 obs
  • Eastern Lubber Grasshopper21 obs
  • Wood Stork20 obs
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron19 obs
  • Cuban Tree Frog19 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.

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OpenStreetMap element way/29336041

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