Park · South Dakota
Porter Sculpture Park
Porter Sculpture Park is a park in South Dakota, at a modelled elevation of 465 m. The nearest named place is Salem Rest Area Westbound, a rest area 12 miles away.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
Coordinates43.66370, -97.18031
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Century Square Park: 12.0 mi
- Hartford City Park: 12.4 mi
- Turtle Creek Park: 12.6 mi
- Wall Lake Park: 14.6 mi
- Colton Park: 15.3 mi
Artworks: 36
- Bathsheba: 23.9 mi
- Divine Servant: 23.9 mi
- Wings: 23.9 mi
- Rainmaker: 23.9 mi
- Fat Tire: 23.9 mi
Museums: 12
- Hartford Township Building: 12.0 mi
- Buffalo Ridge Ghost Town: 15.2 mi
- USS South Dakota: 22.5 mi
- Delbridge Museum of Natural History: 22.6 mi
- Prairie Village: 23.7 mi
Historic sites: 10
- Johnson School: 14.8 mi
- Silverlake MB Church Monument: 19.2 mi
- USS South Dakota Battleship Memorial: 22.5 mi
- Madison Veterans Honor Park: 23.4 mi
- 9/11 Steel Girder: 23.9 mi
Rest areas: 2
- Salem Rest Area Westbound: 11.6 mi
- Salem Rest Area Eastbound: 12.2 mi
Gardens: 2
- Madison Community Garden: 23.4 mi
- Sunken Garden: 24.6 mi
Waterfalls: 2
- Upper Sioux Falls: 24.1 mi
- Middle Sioux Falls: 24.1 mi
Picnic sites: 1
- Family Park: 19.6 mi
Attractions: 1
- W. H. Lyon Fairgrounds (Sioux Empire Fair): 21.9 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:33 | 19:03 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 20:31 | 21:15 |
| September equinox | 07:17 | 18:50 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 08:00 | 16:08 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 14 | 19 | 32 | 44 | 57 | 67 | 72 | 70 | 61 | 47 | 32 | 19 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Salem 5NE, 9 mi away.
- Richardson's Ground Squirrel13 obs
- common milkweed9 obs
- Broad-winged Thistle9 obs
- leadplant7 obs
- upright prairie coneflower6 obs
- White Sweetclover5 obs
- Eastern Kingbird4 obs
- Monarch4 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.
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