Mounds State Park
Mounds State Park is a park in Indiana, at a recorded elevation of 275 m. Spider Hill stands 288 m to the northeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Mounds Fen State Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 71 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 275 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Indiana Department of Natural Resources
How to reach it
- 71.2 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 21.3 mi off the Historic National Road - Indiana, National
- 27.6 mi off the Whitewater Canal Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Rangeline Park: 1.0 mi
- Lily Park: 1.7 mi
- Makepeace Park: 1.7 mi
- Shepherd Park: 2.0 mi
- Walbridge Acres Park: 2.2 mi
- Jesus: 1.7 mi
- Mary Grotto: 1.7 mi
- Confucius: 1.7 mi
- Gautama: 1.7 mi
- Lao-Tse: 1.7 mi
- Mounds State Park nature center: 0.3 mi
- Gruenewald Historic House: 3.1 mi
- Anderson Museum of Art: 3.2 mi
- Pendleton Historical Museum: 9.2 mi
- Alexandria Monroe Historical Society: 11.7 mi
- Mounds Fen State Nature Preserve: 0.1 mi
- Fall Creek Woods: 6.6 mi
- Smith-Crisler Nature Preserve: 6.7 mi
- Dutro-Ernst Woods: 11.3 mi
- Southside turkey lives here.: 13.4 mi
- Sentinel Angel: 1.7 mi
- Trail of Religion: 1.7 mi
- Memorial to the American Indian: 1.7 mi
- Flag poles: 2.3 mi
- Sno Castle: 4.1 mi
- Indy Scream Park / White River Paint Ball: 5.4 mi
- Worlds Largest Ball Of Paint: 11.9 mi
- site 8: 16.1 mi
- Site 4: 16.2 mi
- site 3: 16.6 mi
- Gnome Garden: 1.6 mi
- Buddha Garden: 1.7 mi
- Memory Garden: 1.7 mi
- Demolished Greenhouse: 12.8 mi
- Community Garden Program: 16.1 mi
- Rest area: 18.1 mi
- Greenfield Rest Area (Westbound): 19.4 mi
- Greenfield Rest Area (Eastbound): 19.6 mi
- Imagination Hill: 1.7 mi
- Spider Hill: 13.5 mi
- Geist Beach: 18.8 mi
- Morse Beach: 22.5 mi
- White River Bluff: 1.8 mi
- Corwin: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mounds State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spider Hill | NE 55° | 288 m | 13.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:47 | 19:19 | 19:55 |
| June solstice | 06:14 | 20:35 | 21:16 |
| September equinox | 07:31 | 19:06 | 19:41 |
| December solstice | 08:02 | 16:38 | 17:21 |
Local time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 32 | 41 | 53 | 63 | 71 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 43 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Anderson Sewage PLT, 5 mi away.
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage42 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel31 obs
- Virginia Springbeauty30 obs
- sharp-lobed hepatica26 obs
- prairie trillium25 obs
- bloodroot23 obs
- Virginia bluebells23 obs
- Dryad's Saddle23 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/154075368
Day trips start here
- New Castle · 18 mi
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