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Natural Falls State Park

Natural Falls State Park from directly overhead

Natural Falls State Park is a park in Oklahoma, at a modelled elevation of 305 m. Sugar Hill stands 531 m to the south-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Dripping Springs, a waterfall less than a tenth of a mile away. Cherokee Hills Byway passes 0.4 miles off. 118 named places lie within 25 miles, 27 of them named summits.

What to expect

Access
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Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates36.17392, -94.66754

118 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 55
  • Bob Henry Park: 6.7 mi
  • Koala Park: 7.0 mi
  • Siloam Springs City Park: 7.0 mi
  • Twin Springs Park: 7.1 mi
  • Memorial Park: 7.1 mi
Peaks: 27
  • Mission Mountain: 10.9 mi
  • Bates Mountain: 12.7 mi
  • Bell Mountain: 14.9 mi
  • Roundtop: 15.2 mi
  • Alberty Mountain: 15.4 mi
Museums: 10
  • Siloam Springs Museum Society: 7.2 mi
  • Saline Courthouse Museum: 19.2 mi
  • Arkansas Country Doctor Museum: 20.5 mi
  • Historic Cane Hill Museum: 23.8 mi
  • Methodist Mance: 23.8 mi
Cliffs: 8
Historic sites: 5
Ghost towns: 4
Attractions: 4
Nature reserves: 2
Springs: 2
  • Anderson Spring: 22.3 mi
  • Elm Spring: 24.2 mi
Waterfalls: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sugar HillSSE 149°531 m22.2 mi
Weddington MountainESE 123°487 m15.9 mi
Cane Hill MountainSE 134°482 m23.0 mi
RoundtopESE 119°456 m15.2 mi
West MountainSSE 151°455 m16.8 mi
West MountainS 179°450 m24.6 mi
Bell MountainSE 142°445 m14.9 mi
Snake MountainSSE 155°436 m19.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2318:5719:31
June solstice06:0320:0220:40
September equinox07:0718:4319:17
December solstice07:2716:2817:08

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394352616876818073625042

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kansas 2 NE, 7 mi away.

  • Western Slimy Salamander46 obs
  • common jewelweed28 obs
  • Pond Slider19 obs
  • Springwater Dancer19 obs
  • sensitive fern18 obs
  • Christmas fern16 obs
  • ground-ivy14 obs
  • mayapple13 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/302158361

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