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Oregon Trail Park

Oregon Trail Park from directly overhead

Oregon Trail Park is a park in Nebraska, at a recorded elevation of 484 m. The nearest named place is Heritage Room Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Heritage Highway passes 6.2 miles off. 71 named places lie within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 484 m

Getting there

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Coordinates40.23744, -97.90326

6.2 mi off the Heritage Highway

Around it

71 named places within 25 miles

Parks31

Indian Captives Historical Marker: 0.1 mi
Skirmish at Spring Creek Historical Marker: 6.3 mi
Veteran's Plaza: 9.0 mi
North Park: 9.0 mi
Harbine Park: 9.2 mi

Nature reserves30

Smartweed Marsh State Wildlife Management Area: 8.7 mi
Smartweed Marsh West State Wildlife Management Area: 10.0 mi
Bluewing Wildlife Management Area: 11.4 mi
Bulrush State Wildlife Management Area: 14.0 mi
Greenhead State Wildlife Management Area: 14.4 mi

Ghost towns4

Abdal: 14.1 mi
Stoddard: 18.4 mi
Spring Ranch: 21.0 mi
White Rock: 24.3 mi

Museums3

Heritage Room Museum: 0.0 mi
Nuckolls County Historical Society Museum: 17.1 mi
Thayer County Museum: 18.2 mi

Historic sites3

Indian Raids Historical Marker: 10.7 mi
Frager Field: 16.4 mi
Forty-Niner Trail Historical Marker: 18.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:36	19:08	19:44
June solstice	06:03	20:24	21:05
September equinox	07:20	18:55	19:30
December solstice	07:51	16:26	17:09

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	25	29	40	50	62	72	77	74	66	53	39	28
Precip in	0.7	0.8	1.5	2.3	4.5	4.0	4.1	3.4	2.3	2.0	1.3	1.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Superior, 17 mi away.

Wildlife nearby

winecup mallow1 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.

OpenStreetMap Wikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357787366

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