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Motts Park

Motts Park from directly overhead

Motts Park is a park in Indiana, at a recorded elevation of 189 m. Carlisle Hill stands 280 m to the east, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Shirley Heinze Land Trust, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. The Indiana Lincoln Highway Byway passes 7.9 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
189 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.70493, -86.83395
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
  • Shirley Heinze Land Trust: 0.4 mi
  • NIPSCO and Shirley Heinze Land Trust: 0.7 mi
  • Trail Creek Fen Nature Preserve: 1.7 mi
  • Creek Ridge County Park: 2.7 mi
  • Barker Woods Nature Preserve: 2.7 mi
Parks
  • Karwick Nature Area: 1.3 mi
  • Congdon Park: 1.4 mi
  • Nelson Park: 1.5 mi
  • Water Tower Park: 1.7 mi
  • Pottawattamie Park: 2.0 mi
Peaks: 47
  • Bismarck Hill: 3.5 mi
  • Crescent Dune: 4.5 mi
  • Mount Baldy: 4.8 mi
  • Mount McCray: 5.4 mi
  • Mount Jensen: 5.8 mi
Attractions: 33
Historic sites: 30
  • Civil War Monument: 2.5 mi
  • Greenwood Memorial Chapel: 2.5 mi
  • WW2 Monument "Victory Was Ours": 2.7 mi
  • Warren Nelson Plaque: 3.2 mi
  • Yellow Straw: 3.6 mi
Beaches: 25
  • Stop 7 Beach: 3.3 mi
  • Stop 2 Beach: 3.5 mi
  • Washington Park Beach: 3.9 mi
  • Crescent Dune Beach: 4.6 mi
  • Mount Baldy Beach: 5.3 mi
Museums: 18
Gardens: 16
Artworks: 7
  • Duet: 3.7 mi
  • Potawatomi Warrior: 8.7 mi
  • La Porte History Mural: 8.7 mi
  • Orville Redenbacher: 20.2 mi
  • Tuskegee Airmen: 22.6 mi
Picnic sites: 6
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 3
  • Indiana Welcome Center: 3.0 mi
  • Michigan Welcome Center 707: 6.3 mi
  • Rest Area Trucks Only: 9.4 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • 1 Foot Falls: 8.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Carlisle HillE 98°280.4 m17.7 mi
Mount EdwardNE 39°242 m20.5 mi
Mount RandallNE 41°235 m18.8 mi
Tower HillNE 41°233 m18.4 mi
Pikes PeakNE 41°229 m18.2 mi
Mount FullerNE 40°227 m18.0 mi
Great Warren DuneNE 40°225 m19.7 mi
Mount LieberWSW 254°214 m21.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5218:2319:00
June solstice05:1419:4420:26
September equinox06:3518:1018:46
December solstice07:1215:3616:21

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242837496069737265534030
Precip in3.02.52.73.84.34.44.04.23.44.13.22.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laporte, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • partridgeberry30 obs
  • fan clubmoss25 obs
  • purple pitcher plant19 obs
  • stag's-horn clubmoss15 obs
  • American Royal Fern15 obs
  • mapleleaf viburnum14 obs
  • American beech12 obs
  • American tuliptree12 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/492931438

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