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Prairie Center Park North

Prairie Center Park North from directly overhead

Prairie Center Park North is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 285 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the east-southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Prairie Center Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 5.2 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
285 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.90100, -94.84930

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
  • Theb: 1.7 mi
  • Sprout: 2.1 mi
  • Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 4.1 mi
  • Trails West: 5.5 mi
  • "The Serpent": 6.8 mi
Attractions
Historic sites
  • Cannon: 2.9 mi
  • Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 8.5 mi
  • Austin's Park Memorial: 8.6 mi
  • 9/11 Memorial: 8.9 mi
  • Korean War Veterans Memorial: 9.3 mi
Museums: 59
  • Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture: 2.4 mi
  • Kansas City Automotive Museum: 4.9 mi
  • Monticello Community Historical Society: 5.4 mi
  • Legler Barn Museum: 6.8 mi
  • Gardner Historical Museum: 7.6 mi
Gardens: 32
  • Green Tech Garden: 1.1 mi
  • Prairie Grasses and Wildflower Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Pollinator Prarie: 2.8 mi
  • Bird Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 2.8 mi
Nature reserves: 18
Peaks: 9
Ghost towns: 7
Waterfalls: 4
  • Cedar Lake Falls: 3.7 mi
  • Turkey Creek Falls: 12.6 mi
  • Angel Falls: 24.3 mi
  • Line Creek Double Falls: 24.3 mi
Beaches: 3
  • Swim Beach: 6.7 mi
  • Windsurfer Beach: 16.2 mi
  • Miola Beach: 21.6 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Watts Mill: 13.4 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Miller HillESE 110°342 m23.8 mi
Bowler HillE 92°330 m24.5 mi
Blue MoundW 271°318 m17.9 mi
Fowler HillSW 233°318 m22.6 mi
Mount OreadW 281°316 m22.0 mi
Shank HillW 268°304 m22.2 mi
Observation BluffW 273°277 m10.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2418:5619:32
June solstice05:5520:0920:49
September equinox07:0818:4319:18
December solstice07:3516:1917:01

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293444556574797769574534
Precip in1.31.72.54.15.35.24.74.54.23.02.41.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe 3E, 5 mi away.

  • White-tailed Deer47 obs
  • North American Wheel Bug33 obs
  • Blanchard's Cricket Frog31 obs
  • Carolina horsenettle27 obs
  • Common Five-lined Skink27 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle26 obs
  • American germander25 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee25 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358644448

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