Mills Park
Mills Park is a park in Nevada, at a recorded elevation of 1,420 m. Mount Rose stands 3,285 m to the northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Nevada Vietnam Memorial, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive passes 9.1 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1420 m
How to reach it
- 9.1 mi off the Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive, National
- 9.9 mi off the Fort Churchill to Wellington Back Country Byway
- 11.4 mi off the Mount Rose Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Memorial Point Scenic Overlook · 10 mi
- Scenic lookout · 11 mi
- Logan Shoals Vista Point · 13 mi
- Cave Rock · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Fulstone Family Park: 0.8 mi
- Capitol Complex: 0.8 mi
- Blackwell's Pond Park: 0.9 mi
- Treadway Park: 0.9 mi
- Steinheimer Park: 1.0 mi
- C Hill: 2.2 mi
- Indian Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Centennial Peak: 3.0 mi
- Sugarloaf: 3.2 mi
- Prison Hill: 3.5 mi
- Pelican Sculpture: 17.7 mi
- Frog Sculpture: 17.7 mi
- St Theresa: 20.0 mi
- The Big Tree: 20.7 mi
- The Holland Project: 23.6 mi
- Old US Mint: 0.7 mi
- Nevada State Railroad Museum: 1.7 mi
- Eastgate Depot: 4.6 mi
- Dayton Museum: 9.8 mi
- Dayton Museum: 9.8 mi
- Carson Raceway: 1.9 mi
- Thunderbird Lodge: 9.6 mi
- Palmyra Town Site: 13.6 mi
- Palmyra Mining Camp: 13.6 mi
- Zephyr Cove Beach: 15.4 mi
- Scripps State Wildlife Management Area: 8.8 mi
- River Fork Ranch Preserve: 13.4 mi
- Galena Creek Regional Park: 13.8 mi
- Galena Terrace: 14.8 mi
- Placer County Open Space: 18.2 mi
- South Beach: 4.5 mi
- Secret Beach: 9.4 mi
- Sand Harbor Beach: 9.6 mi
- Secret Cove Beach: 9.6 mi
- Boaters Beach: 9.7 mi
- Nevada Vietnam Memorial: 0.1 mi
- Nevada State Constitution Monument: 0.8 mi
- Korean War Memorial: 2.4 mi
- Ophir Mill Historical Marker: 9.5 mi
- Virginia City's Oldest Church: 11.0 mi
- Taylor Spring: 3.4 mi
- Saratoga Hot Spring: 7.8 mi
- Bull Run Spring: 9.0 mi
- Erastra Spring: 10.8 mi
- Lebo Spring: 12.6 mi
- Lower King's Canyon Waterfall: 3.6 mi
- Jumbo Falls: 11.6 mi
- Genoa Falls: 13.1 mi
- Eagle Falls: 24.4 mi
- Lower Eagle Falls: 24.4 mi
- Carson City Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- Norton Park: 15.6 mi
- Dolly's Vegetable Garden: 22.4 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 22.6 mi
- The Rose Garden: 24.7 mi
- Slab Cliffs: 14.0 mi
- Susans Bluff: 20.5 mi
- Twin Crags: 22.1 mi
- Tallac Point: 22.6 mi
- Thunder Cliff: 23.1 mi
- Washoe City: 10.5 mi
- Sutro: 11.8 mi
- Galena: 12.6 mi
- Como: 14.8 mi
- Stone Cabin: 16.4 mi
- Meeks Bay Beach: 21.8 mi
- Eagle Falls Picnic Area: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.1 miles of Mills Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Rose | NW 324° | 3,285 m | 14.9 mi |
| Mount Houghton | NW 319° | 3,195 m | 15.1 mi |
| Relay Peak | NW 314° | 3,135 m | 14.4 mi |
| Tamarack Peak | NW 319° | 3,012 m | 13.6 mi |
| Slide Mountain | NW 325° | 2,936 m | 12.1 mi |
| Rose Knob Peak | NW 308° | 2,932 m | 13.9 mi |
| Rose Knob | NW 304° | 2,922 m | 14.7 mi |
| Chocolate Peak | NNW 329° | 2,867 m | 14.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:36 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:49 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:22 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:58 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 38 | 44 | 49 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 34 |
| Precip in | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Carson City, 3 mi away.
- Mule Deer25 obs
- California Scrub-Jay20 obs
- Northern Shoveler20 obs
- Cooper's Hawk20 obs
- Carson Valley Monkeyflower19 obs
- White-crowned Sparrow17 obs
- Western Toad17 obs
- Gadwall17 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/178504223
Day trips start here
- Virginia City · 11 mi
- Incline Village · 13 mi
- Lake Tahoe · 16 mi
- Republic of Molossia · 16 mi
- Tahoe Vista · 17 mi
- Tahoe City · 21 mi
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