Park Terrace Park
Park Terrace Park is a park in Nevada, at a modelled elevation of 1,417 m. Mount Rose stands 3,285 m to the northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Empire Ranch Estates Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Fort Churchill to Wellington Back Country Byway passes 8.7 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Carson City Parks & Recreation
How to reach it
- 8.7 mi off the Fort Churchill to Wellington Back Country Byway
- 10.4 mi off the Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive, National
- 12.4 mi off the Mount Rose Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Memorial Point Scenic Overlook · 11 mi
- Scenic lookout · 12 mi
- Logan Shoals Vista Point · 14 mi
- Cave Rock · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Empire Ranch Estates Park: 0.8 mi
- Fulstone Family Park: 1.0 mi
- Riley Circle Park: 1.2 mi
- Blackwell's Pond Park: 1.2 mi
- Mills Park: 1.3 mi
- Centennial Peak: 2.2 mi
- Sedge Overlook: 2.3 mi
- Skinny Ridge Bump: 2.4 mi
- Rifle Range Hill: 2.7 mi
- Skinny Ridge Hill: 2.9 mi
- Pelican Sculpture: 17.4 mi
- Frog Sculpture: 17.5 mi
- St Theresa: 20.9 mi
- The Big Tree: 22.0 mi
- The Holland Project: 23.6 mi
- Old US Mint: 2.1 mi
- Nevada State Railroad Museum: 2.7 mi
- Eastgate Depot: 3.4 mi
- Dayton Museum: 8.6 mi
- Dayton Museum: 8.6 mi
- Carson Raceway: 2.7 mi
- Thunderbird Lodge: 10.9 mi
- Palmyra Town Site: 12.3 mi
- Palmyra Mining Camp: 12.3 mi
- Customs: 14.5 mi
- South Beach: 5.0 mi
- Secret Beach: 10.7 mi
- Sand Harbor Beach: 10.9 mi
- Secret Cove Beach: 11.0 mi
- Boaters Beach: 11.0 mi
- Scripps State Wildlife Management Area: 9.1 mi
- River Fork Ranch Preserve: 14.0 mi
- Galena Creek Regional Park: 14.2 mi
- Galena Terrace: 14.8 mi
- Placer County Open Space: 19.5 mi
- Taylor Spring: 4.7 mi
- Bull Run Spring: 7.7 mi
- Saratoga Hot Spring: 8.0 mi
- Erastra Spring: 9.8 mi
- Lebo Spring: 11.8 mi
- Korean War Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Nevada Vietnam Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Nevada State Constitution Monument: 2.1 mi
- Ophir Mill Historical Marker: 9.9 mi
- Virginia City's Oldest Church: 10.3 mi
- Carson City Community Garden: 1.5 mi
- Norton Park: 14.5 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 22.4 mi
- Dolly's Vegetable Garden: 23.4 mi
- The Rose Garden: 24.7 mi
- Slab Cliffs: 14.9 mi
- Susans Bluff: 19.2 mi
- Twin Crags: 23.4 mi
- Tallac Point: 23.7 mi
- Thunder Cliff: 24.4 mi
- Washoe City: 10.5 mi
- Sutro: 10.7 mi
- Galena: 12.6 mi
- Como: 13.5 mi
- Stone Cabin: 15.1 mi
- Lower King's Canyon Waterfall: 4.9 mi
- Jumbo Falls: 11.1 mi
- Genoa Falls: 13.9 mi
- Meeks Bay Beach: 23.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.7 miles of Park Terrace Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Rose | NW 320° | 3,285 m | 15.5 mi |
| Relay Peak | NW 310° | 3,135 m | 15.2 mi |
| Tamarack Peak | NW 314° | 3,012 m | 14.4 mi |
| Slide Mountain | NW 320° | 2,936 m | 12.7 mi |
| Rose Knob Peak | NW 304° | 2,932 m | 14.8 mi |
| Rose Knob | WNW 301° | 2,922 m | 15.7 mi |
| Chocolate Peak | NW 324° | 2,867 m | 15.4 mi |
| Snow Valley Peak | W 261° | 2,803 m | 8.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:36 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:49 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:22 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:58 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 38 | 44 | 49 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 34 |
| Precip in | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Carson City, 4 mi away.
- Northern Shoveler25 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk24 obs
- Carson Valley Monkeyflower22 obs
- White-crowned Sparrow21 obs
- Canada Goose20 obs
- Northern Flicker20 obs
- Gadwall20 obs
- Cooper's Hawk20 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/711538685
Day trips start here
- Virginia City · 10 mi
- Incline Village · 14 mi
- Republic of Molossia · 15 mi
- Lake Tahoe · 18 mi
- Tahoe Vista · 18 mi
- Tahoe City · 22 mi
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