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Renton Park

Renton Park from directly overhead

Renton Park is a park in Washington, at a recorded elevation of 121 m. Dixie Peak stands 1,404 m to the east-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Fairwood Crest Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Mountains to Sound Greenway - I-90 passes 8.3 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
121 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.45035, -122.16627

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Fairwood Crest Park: 0.3 mi
  • Fairwood West Neighborhood Park: 0.5 mi
  • Cascade Park: 0.7 mi
  • CVAC Baseball Field: 0.9 mi
  • Allen Park: 0.9 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Nature reserves
  • Vila Real Wildlife Conservation: 2.4 mi
  • Ricardi Reach Natural Area: 3.1 mi
  • Ikuta Greenbelt: 3.2 mi
  • Springbrook Greenbelt: 3.3 mi
  • Wetland 14 Natural Area: 3.4 mi
Museums
Peaks
  • Echo Mountain: 3.1 mi
  • Marshall's Hill: 5.2 mi
  • Long View Peak: 5.6 mi
  • Wilderness Peak: 5.9 mi
  • Squak Mountain West Peak: 6.3 mi
Attractions
  • Space Needle of Renton: 3.6 mi
  • Trinity Tree Farm: 6.1 mi
  • Fantastic Erratic: 6.8 mi
  • McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A Hornet: 7.6 mi
  • Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird: 7.7 mi
Gardens
  • Kent East Hill Nursery Display Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Native Plant Garden: 4.7 mi
  • Kent Community Garden: 5.4 mi
  • Garden Taft: 5.5 mi
  • Maple Woods: 6.4 mi
Beaches: 56
  • Kennydale Beach: 5.4 mi
  • Pritchard Island Beach: 7.1 mi
  • Mercerwood Shore Club beach: 8.5 mi
  • Tibbetts Beach: 8.6 mi
  • North Beach: 8.7 mi
Picnic sites: 41
  • May Valley Trailhead Picnic Site: 5.7 mi
  • Brandi Carlile Stage: 7.1 mi
  • Site #8: 7.9 mi
  • Site #4: 7.9 mi
  • Site #7: 7.9 mi
Waterfalls: 15
  • Far Country Falls: 5.2 mi
  • Doughty Falls: 5.5 mi
  • Coal Creek Falls: 5.7 mi
  • North Fork Falls: 6.2 mi
  • Fifteenmile Waterfall: 8.6 mi
Lighthouses: 14
Ghost towns: 11
Cliffs: 8
Springs: 4
  • Ravenna Park Sulfur Spring: 16.6 mi
  • Canyon Spring: 18.9 mi
  • Licton Springs: 19.0 mi
  • Maplewood Spring: 20.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.6 miles of Renton Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dixie PeakENE 77°1,404 m21.6 mi
Blowdown MountainENE 78°1,400 m21.0 mi
Crater Lake PeakENE 77°1,326 m20.9 mi
Mount Si / q̓əlbc̓E 79°1,254 m20.3 mi
Rattlesnake Mountain - Middle PeakE 88°1,004 m16.8 mi
Rattlesnake Mountain - West PeakE 85°994.257 m16.1 mi
East Tiger MountainENE 75°913 m10.6 mi
West Tiger #1ENE 67°891 m9.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4119:21
June solstice05:1220:2221:10
September equinox06:5618:2819:08
December solstice07:5415:2816:21

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434447515862676862544642
Precip in4.93.23.72.81.91.50.60.91.53.55.64.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Renton Muni AP, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Dark-eyed Junco97 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird52 obs
  • Song Sparrow47 obs
  • Pacific chorus frog44 obs
  • Cross Orbweaver41 obs
  • American Robin39 obs
  • House Finch33 obs
  • Ptenothrix maculosa31 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 way/175815117

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