Oregon Trail Park
Oregon Trail Park is a park in Kansas, at a modelled elevation of 315 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the east-southeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Rolling Ridge School Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 6.7 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 6.7 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
- 21.0 mi off the Spirit of Kansas City
- 22.5 mi off the Cliff Drive
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Blind · 10 mi
- Kaw Point · 21 mi
- Scarrit Point · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Rolling Ridge School Park: 0.7 mi
- Pellett Park: 1.3 mi
- Calamity Line Park: 1.4 mi
- Lake Olathe: 1.4 mi
- Olathe Veterans Memorial: 1.5 mi
- M101: 1.6 mi
- Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead: 7.6 mi
- Candy Cane Lane: 13.1 mi
- Grinter Place State Historic Site: 14.9 mi
- Old Red Bridge Love Locks: 15.2 mi
- Cannon: 1.6 mi
- Veterans Memorial Plaza: 7.3 mi
- Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 8.1 mi
- Austin's Park Memorial: 8.5 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 9.0 mi
- Sprout: 1.9 mi
- Theb: 2.2 mi
- Trails West: 3.1 mi
- Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 3.4 mi
- Hybrid Circle: 8.3 mi
- Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture: 2.0 mi
- Ensor Park and Museum: 5.4 mi
- Kansas City Automotive Museum: 5.7 mi
- Gardner Historical Museum: 6.1 mi
- Monticello Community Historical Society: 7.7 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 8.1 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 10.3 mi
- Badger Ridge: 16.6 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 17.6 mi
- Westerville Limestone Outcrop: 17.7 mi
- Green Tech Garden: 1.3 mi
- Monarch Garden: 2.2 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 2.2 mi
- Bee Garden: 2.2 mi
- Bird Garden: 2.3 mi
- Blue Valley Wilderness Science Center Wilderness Area: 11.4 mi
- Hillsdale Recreation Area: 12.7 mi
- Saeger Woods Conservation Area: 14.5 mi
- Heartland Overlook Preserve: 16.7 mi
- Douglas State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area: 17.8 mi
- Overland Park: 9.2 mi
- Overland Park: 9.2 mi
- Observation Bluff: 11.3 mi
- Blue Mound: 18.3 mi
- Fowler Hill: 21.5 mi
- Powell: 17.2 mi
- Franklin: 18.4 mi
- West Union: 20.3 mi
- Prairie City: 21.2 mi
- Quindaro Townsite: 22.1 mi
- Swim Beach: 7.6 mi
- Windsurfer Beach: 14.0 mi
- Miola Beach: 19.3 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 1.4 mi
- Turkey Creek Falls: 14.2 mi
- Watts Mill: 13.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Oregon Trail Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Hill | ESE 105° | 342 m | 22.8 mi |
| Bowler Hill | E 86° | 330 m | 24.3 mi |
| Blue Mound | W 278° | 318 m | 18.3 mi |
| Fowler Hill | WSW 238° | 318 m | 21.5 mi |
| Mount Oread | WNW 287° | 316 m | 22.8 mi |
| Shank Hill | W 274° | 304 m | 22.5 mi |
| Observation Bluff | WNW 284° | 277 m | 11.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:56 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:55 | 20:09 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:19 | 17:01 |
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, 4 mi away.
- Great Blue Heron38 obs
- Pond Slider25 obs
- Canada Goose20 obs
- Eastern Pondhawk20 obs
- Mourning Dove19 obs
- Mallard19 obs
- American Robin19 obs
- Common Buckeye19 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/255579163
Day trips start here
- Olathe · 2 mi
- Lenexa · 8 mi
- Overland Park · 12 mi
- Kansas City · 21 mi
- Kansas City Area · 21 mi
- Kansas City · 21 mi
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