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Pottawattamie Park

Pottawattamie Park from directly overhead

Pottawattamie Park is a park in Indiana, at a recorded elevation of 188 m. Carlisle Hill stands 280 m to the east, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Friendship Botanic Gardens, a attraction 0.2 miles away. The Indiana Lincoln Highway Byway passes 9.3 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
188 m
Getting there

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Coordinates41.72087, -86.86670
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Krueger Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
  • Ridgeland Park: 0.4 mi
  • Winding Creek Cove Park: 0.7 mi
  • Water Tower Park: 0.8 mi
  • Karwick Nature Area: 0.8 mi
Nature reserves
  • NIPSCO and Shirley Heinze Land Trust: 1.8 mi
  • Shirley Heinze Land Trust: 1.9 mi
  • Barker Woods Nature Preserve: 2.3 mi
  • Trail Creek Fen Nature Preserve: 2.9 mi
  • Creek Ridge County Park: 3.7 mi
Peaks: 47
  • Bismarck Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Crescent Dune: 2.8 mi
  • Mount Baldy: 3.2 mi
  • Mount McCray: 3.9 mi
  • Mount Jensen: 4.2 mi
Attractions: 33
  • Friendship Botanic Gardens: 0.2 mi
  • Blue Chip Hotel: 1.3 mi
  • Lake Clare: 1.4 mi
  • Zebras: 1.7 mi
  • Australian Walk About: Wallaby and Emu: 1.7 mi
Historic sites: 30
  • Warren Nelson Plaque: 1.3 mi
  • Civil War Monument: 1.4 mi
  • Greenwood Memorial Chapel: 1.5 mi
  • WW2 Monument "Victory Was Ours": 1.5 mi
  • Yellow Straw: 1.7 mi
Beaches: 25
  • Stop 7 Beach: 1.3 mi
  • Stop 2 Beach: 1.5 mi
  • Washington Park Beach: 1.9 mi
  • Crescent Dune Beach: 2.9 mi
  • Mount Baldy Beach: 3.7 mi
Museums: 17
Gardens: 16
Artworks: 7
  • Duet: 1.7 mi
  • Potawatomi Warrior: 10.6 mi
  • La Porte History Mural: 10.7 mi
  • Orville Redenbacher: 20.2 mi
  • Tuskegee Airmen: 21.3 mi
Picnic sites: 6
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 3
  • Indiana Welcome Center: 4.0 mi
  • Michigan Welcome Center 707: 7.1 mi
  • Rest Area Trucks Only: 9.7 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • 1 Foot Falls: 8.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Carlisle HillE 101°280.4 m19.6 mi
Mount EdwardNE 45°242 m20.8 mi
Mount RandallNE 47°235 m19.2 mi
Tower HillNE 47°233 m18.7 mi
Pikes PeakNE 47°229 m18.6 mi
Mount FullerNE 47°227 m18.4 mi
Great Warren DuneNE 46°225 m20.1 mi
Mount LieberWSW 249°214 m20.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5218:2319:00
June solstice05:1419:4420:26
September equinox06:3618:1018:47
December solstice07:1215:3616:21

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242837496069737265534030
Precip in3.02.52.73.84.34.44.04.23.44.13.22.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laporte, 10 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • sassafras14 obs
  • spotted horsemint14 obs
  • common soapwort13 obs
  • White-tailed Deer12 obs
  • purple pitcher plant12 obs
  • mapleleaf viburnum12 obs
  • Mallard11 obs
  • American tuliptree10 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 node/358664000

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