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Red Cloud City Park

Red Cloud City Park from directly overhead

Red Cloud City Park is a park in Nebraska, at a modelled elevation of 522 m. Lookout Mountain stands 624 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Willa Cather House, a museum 0.1 miles away. Heritage Highway runs past it. 29 named places lie within 25 miles, 2 of them named summits.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.08685, -98.52000

29 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 11
  • Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Historical Marker: 5.7 mi
  • Willa Cather Memorial Prairie: 5.7 mi
  • Republican Valley Wayside Park: 7.8 mi
  • Emmanuel Lutheran Church Historical Marker: 11.5 mi
  • Catherland Historical Marker: 14.1 mi
Peaks: 2
Historic sites: 2
Attractions: 1
  • Starke Round Barn: 4.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lookout MountainW 261°624 m20.6 mi
The IslandSE 140°537 m5.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3819:1119:46
June solstice06:0620:2721:07
September equinox07:2218:5719:33
December solstice07:5316:2917:12

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252939506172777566523828
Precip in0.50.61.32.24.23.63.93.42.02.01.10.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RED Cloud, under a mile away.

  • American White Pelican2 obs
  • Clouded Sulphur2 obs
  • winecup mallow2 obs
  • Phyllophaga corrosa2 obs
  • Turkey Vulture1 obs
  • Eastern Kingbird1 obs
  • Red-headed Woodpecker1 obs
  • Common Watersnake1 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 way/445824030

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