Martin Creek Park
Martin Creek Park is a park in Kansas, at a modelled elevation of 305 m. Fowler Hill stands 318 m to the west-southwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Edgerton Manor Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 18 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 17.5 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Blind · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Edgerton Manor Park: 0.4 mi
- Westside Park: 4.6 mi
- Veterans Park: 4.8 mi
- Meadowbrook Park: 5.0 mi
- Saddle Club Park: 5.3 mi
- Trails West: 10.2 mi
- Sprout: 13.1 mi
- Theb: 13.4 mi
- Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 14.3 mi
- Copper Hopper Chopper by David Seitzinger: 16.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial Plaza: 8.6 mi
- Cannon: 12.6 mi
- Dorothy Akin Memorial Prairie: 12.9 mi
- International Arch: 14.1 mi
- Baptiste Bust: 14.7 mi
- Lanesfield Historic Site: 2.0 mi
- Gardner Historical Museum: 5.2 mi
- Old Castle Museum: 9.8 mi
- Palmyra Post Office: 9.8 mi
- Kibbee Cabin: 9.8 mi
- Green Tech Garden: 11.7 mi
- Monarch Garden: 13.3 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 13.4 mi
- Bee Garden: 13.4 mi
- Bird Garden: 13.4 mi
- Hillsdale Recreation Area: 5.8 mi
- Douglas State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area: 8.9 mi
- Rice Woodland: 10.2 mi
- Breidenthal Biological Reserve: 10.6 mi
- Roy and Eleanor Wall Woods: 11.0 mi
- Prairie City: 11.3 mi
- Dennison: 12.5 mi
- Franklin: 15.1 mi
- Hackett: 15.6 mi
- Minneola: 17.9 mi
- Observation Bluff: 10.4 mi
- Fowler Hill: 10.5 mi
- Blue Mound: 13.8 mi
- Shank Hill: 16.4 mi
- Mount Oread: 19.2 mi
- Midland Railway Baldwin City Depot: 10.7 mi
- M101: 12.6 mi
- Louisburg Cider Mill: 16.5 mi
- Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead: 18.0 mi
- Lawrence Arts Center: 18.8 mi
- Windsurfer Beach: 8.4 mi
- Swim Beach: 10.6 mi
- Miola Beach: 14.6 mi
- Bloomington Beach: 22.0 mi
- Overlook Park Shelter 1: 21.8 mi
- Overlook Park Shelter 2: 21.9 mi
- Watts Mill: 24.8 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 10.2 mi
- Wakarusa River Falls: 20.7 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 18.4 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 21.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Martin Creek Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fowler Hill | WSW 247° | 318 m | 10.5 mi |
| Blue Mound | NW 316° | 318 m | 13.8 mi |
| Mount Oread | NW 316° | 316 m | 19.2 mi |
| Shank Hill | WNW 302° | 304 m | 16.4 mi |
| Sanders Mound | WNW 303° | 288 m | 21.6 mi |
| Observation Bluff | NNW 347° | 277 m | 10.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:57 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:09 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:44 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:20 | 17:02 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 34 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 75 | 79 | 77 | 69 | 57 | 44 | 34 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe Johnson CO IND AP, 7 mi away.
- great mullein8 obs
- Ornate Box Turtle6 obs
- American Robin5 obs
- common pawpaw5 obs
- Blanchard's Cricket Frog5 obs
- Western Ratsnake5 obs
- Dickcissel4 obs
- eastern redcedar4 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/854028810
Day trips start here
- Olathe · 14 mi
- Lenexa · 20 mi
- Overland Park · 23 mi
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