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Parkwood Heights Park

Parkwood Heights Park from directly overhead

Parkwood Heights Park is a park in Florida, at a recorded elevation of 11 m. Mount Cornelia stands 15 m to the northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Community Garden, a garden 0.5 miles away. A1A OCEAN ISLANDS TRAIL (OBS) passes 8.5 miles off. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
11 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates30.33872, -81.57263

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Tree Hill Park: 0.7 mi
  • Arlingwood Park: 0.8 mi
  • Gamewell Tot Lot: 1.0 mi
  • Warrington Park: 1.1 mi
  • Lake Lucina Elementary Park: 1.3 mi
Attractions: 46
  • Visayan Warty Hog: 5.9 mi
  • Hornbill Aviary: 5.9 mi
  • Asian Small Clawed Otter: 5.9 mi
  • Sulawesi Babirusa: 5.9 mi
  • Komodo Dragons: 5.9 mi
Artworks: 19
  • Jaguar: 4.1 mi
  • Jaxoscope: 5.0 mi
  • Nova: 5.3 mi
  • Letha Davis Spire: 5.5 mi
  • Coming Home: 5.8 mi
Museums: 17
Gardens: 9
  • Community Garden: 0.5 mi
  • Asian Bamboo Garden: 6.0 mi
  • Lower Olmsted Garden: 6.4 mi
  • Upper Olmsted Garden: 6.4 mi
  • Italian Garden: 6.4 mi
Historic sites: 9
  • Grove Park Memorial: 3.3 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Wall: 4.2 mi
  • Market Street Horror: 5.0 mi
  • Soldiers of the American Revolution Associated with Jacksonville History: 5.2 mi
  • Andrew Jackson: 5.3 mi
Nature reserves: 9
Springs: 7
  • Pottsburg Spring: 3.4 mi
  • Wadesboro Spring: 15.4 mi
  • Ww Gay 1 Spring: 15.8 mi
  • Ww Gay 2 Spring: 15.8 mi
  • Sunowa Spring: 19.7 mi
Cliffs: 5
Peaks: 4
  • Round Top: 6.3 mi
  • Indian Mound: 9.0 mi
  • Mount Cornelia: 10.8 mi
  • McClure Hill: 24.8 mi
Beaches: 4
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Picnic sites: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount CorneliaNE 53°15 m10.8 mi
McClure HillNNE 17°10 m24.8 mi
Round TopNNE 29°8 m6.3 mi
Indian MoundENE 78°3 m9.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3119:0619:38
June solstice06:2619:5720:32
September equinox07:1518:5319:24
December solstice07:2016:5417:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–Jun.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F555863687480828279726358
Precip in3.02.43.02.43.06.36.16.97.36.02.62.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jacksonville Craig Muni AP, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Brown Anole28 obs
  • Eastern Lubber Grasshopper20 obs
  • Green Anole17 obs
  • Gulf Fritillary15 obs
  • American beautyberry15 obs
  • Golden Silk Spider15 obs
  • White beggarticks15 obs
  • Muscovy Duck14 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/580900033

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