Prentis Park
Prentis Park is a park in South Dakota, at a modelled elevation of 377 m. Cottonwood Hill stands 468 m to the south, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is HyVee Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Outlaw Trail passes 7.3 miles off. 71 named places lie within 25 miles, 8 of them named summits.
How to reach it
- 7.3 mi off the Outlaw Trail
- 15.7 mi off the Loess Hills Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Scenic Overlook · 27 mi
- Bobsled Run · 28 mi
- Kestrel Point · 28 mi
- Gobbler Point · 28 mi
71 named places within 25 miles
- Bluffs Park: 0.9 mi
- Cotton Park: 1.0 mi
- Ty Park: 1.0 mi
- Rotary Park: 1.1 mi
- Lion's Park: 1.1 mi
- Wiseman State Wildlife Management Area: 9.2 mi
- Buckskin Hills State Wildlife Management Area: 10.7 mi
- Elk Point Bend State Wildlife Management Area: 14.2 mi
- River's Bend Wildlife Area: 16.5 mi
- Broken Kettle Grassland Preserve: 18.3 mi
- Spirit Mound: 6.8 mi
- Rattlesnake Hill: 7.1 mi
- Pumpkin Hill: 7.2 mi
- Volcano Hill: 7.9 mi
- Indian Hill: 9.0 mi
- Ionia 'Volcano' Historical Marker: 9.2 mi
- Dick and Gertrude Havelaar: 12.0 mi
- Wynot Area Veterans Memorial: 13.1 mi
- Gayville Veterans Memorial: 15.0 mi
- Cedar County Historical Marker: 20.9 mi
- National Music Museum: 0.5 mi
- W. H. Over Museum: 0.8 mi
- Austin-Whittemore House Museum: 1.0 mi
- Union County Historical Museum: 13.0 mi
- Cedar County Historical Museum: 21.0 mi
- HyVee Garden: 0.1 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 0.5 mi
- Emmet: 14.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Prentis Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood Hill | S 173° | 468 m | 21.4 mi |
| Boy Scout Hill | SE 145° | 430 m | 9.5 mi |
| Pumpkin Hill | SSE 154° | 429 m | 7.2 mi |
| Indian Hill | SE 146° | 426 m | 9.0 mi |
| Lookout Hill | SE 140° | 411 m | 16.3 mi |
| Rattlesnake Hill | SSE 148° | 395 m | 7.1 mi |
| Spirit Mound | NNW 342° | 390 m | 6.8 mi |
| Volcano Hill | SE 145° | 382 m | 7.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:32 | 19:03 | 19:40 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:27 | 21:10 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:50 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:56 | 16:11 | 16:57 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 20 | 25 | 37 | 49 | 60 | 71 | 74 | 72 | 65 | 52 | 37 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Vermillion 2 SE, 1 mi away.
- American Robin24 obs
- Plains Garter Snake16 obs
- Garden Bembidion Beetle15 obs
- Eastern Cottontail14 obs
- Mourning Dove13 obs
- Bembidion levigatum13 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel12 obs
- Monarch12 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/159241343
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