Riverside Park
Riverside Park is a park in South Dakota, at a recorded elevation of 337 m. Cottonwood Hill stands 468 m to the west, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Prairie Blvd Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Loess Hills Scenic Byway runs past it. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 337 m
How to reach it
- On the Loess Hills Scenic Byway, National
- 3.4 mi off the Outlaw Trail
- 3.7 mi off the Lewis & Clark Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Gobbler Point · 3 mi
- Mount Lucia · 3 mi
- Kestrel Point · 3 mi
- Bobsled Run · 3 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Prairie Blvd Park: 0.7 mi
- Hi-View Park: 0.8 mi
- War Eagle Park: 0.9 mi
- Kirk Hansen Park: 1.3 mi
- Goldie & Beck Park: 1.6 mi
- Edgewater Park: 1.4 mi
- Sioux City State Prairie Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Sacajawea Park: 5.2 mi
- Heendah Hills Wildlife Managment Area: 5.4 mi
- Stone State Recreation Area: 6.9 mi
- Theophile Bruguier Monument: 1.0 mi
- Chief War Eagle Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Combination Bridge Pillar: 3.1 mi
- Siouxland Veteran Memorial Bridge Plaque: 3.1 mi
- Hard Rock Guitar: 3.2 mi
- The Railroad Museum: 2.1 mi
- Sergent Floyd River Museum: 2.8 mi
- Betty Strong Encounter Center: 2.9 mi
- Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center: 2.9 mi
- LaunchPAD Children's Museum: 3.3 mi
- Dakota Point: 3.9 mi
- Lookout Hill: 14.0 mi
- Cottonwood Hill: 20.2 mi
- Boy Scout Hill: 20.8 mi
- Indian Hill: 21.3 mi
- Abraham Lincoln Statue: 3.5 mi
- This Is Sioux CIty: 3.9 mi
- Towers of Time: 13.8 mi
- Harp: 19.8 mi
- Dale Street Community Garden: 3.8 mi
- Dale G Bell Memorial Arboretum: 15.1 mi
- Old Town: 20.9 mi
- Train: 20.9 mi
- Sergeant Bluff: 9.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Riverside Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood Hill | W 265° | 468 m | 20.2 mi |
| Boy Scout Hill | NW 305° | 430 m | 20.8 mi |
| Pumpkin Hill | NW 304° | 429 m | 23.5 mi |
| Indian Hill | NW 305° | 426 m | 21.3 mi |
| Lookout Hill | WNW 300° | 411 m | 14.0 mi |
| Rattlesnake Hill | NW 306° | 395 m | 23.2 mi |
| Dakota Point | N 0° | 394 m | 3.9 mi |
| Volcano Hill | NW 306° | 382 m | 22.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:30 | 19:01 | 19:38 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 20:25 | 21:07 |
| September equinox | 07:14 | 18:48 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:53 | 16:11 | 16:56 |
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 | 19 | 24 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 70 | 75 | 72 | 64 | 51 | 36 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 1.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sioux City ANG, 9 mi away.
- Bald Eagle21 obs
- Common Merganser12 obs
- Carolina Mantis10 obs
- Differential Grasshopper8 obs
- Bold Jumping Spider7 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk6 obs
- White-tailed Deer6 obs
- Virginian Tiger Moth6 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/839384150
Day trips start here
- Sioux City · 4 mi
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