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Mardi Gras Park

Mardi Gras Park from directly overhead

Mardi Gras Park is a park in Alabama, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Stony Hill stands 68 m to the northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Queen, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Alabama's Coastal Connection passes 8.0 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates30.68961, -88.04062

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Attractions: 25
  • Sweet Dreams Haunted Attraction: 0.8 mi
  • Grumman HU-16E Albatross: 1.4 mi
  • Bell UH-1: 1.4 mi
  • McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II: 1.5 mi
  • Piasecki H-21: 1.5 mi
Historic sites: 23
Museums: 21
Artworks: 9
  • Queen: 0.0 mi
  • Louis Armstrong: 0.0 mi
  • Joe Cain: 0.0 mi
  • Portal: 0.2 mi
  • Holy Cross: 0.2 mi
Gardens: 6
Picnic sites: 4
  • Picnic Pavillion: 7.0 mi
  • Picnic Pavillion: 7.0 mi
  • Tensaw Bluff: 7.7 mi
  • Bayfront Park: 23.4 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Peaks: 1
  • Stony Hill: 12.2 mi
Nature reserves: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Stony HillNE 53°68 m12.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:3219:04
June solstice05:5119:2319:59
September equinox06:4118:1818:50
December solstice06:4616:1916:56

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F525662687682848480716155
Precip in5.23.85.14.94.45.86.67.14.53.84.15.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mobile Dwtn AP, 5 mi away.

  • Red Buffalo-bur71 obs
  • Green Anole47 obs
  • Laughing Gull33 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel31 obs
  • resurrection fern30 obs
  • Boat-tailed Grackle29 obs
  • Gray Wall Jumping Spider26 obs
  • Common Box Turtle25 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/434904235

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