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Rockwoods Reservation

Rockwoods Reservation from directly overhead

Rockwoods Reservation is a park in Missouri, at a modelled elevation of 173 m. Tavern Rock stands 272 m to the west-northwest, 5.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Rockwoods Reservation Conservation Area, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Historic Route 66 - MO passes 1.0 miles off. 21 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.56614, -90.66889

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Parks
  • Old Pond School Park: 1.5 mi
  • Village Green: 2.2 mi
  • Greensfelder County Park: 2.2 mi
  • Green Pines Park: 2.5 mi
  • Green Pines Park: 2.5 mi
Attractions
Artworks
Museums: 47
  • Wildwood History Museum: 2.5 mi
  • Myseum: 9.1 mi
  • The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog: 10.3 mi
  • Morton J. May Foundation Gallery: 10.3 mi
  • Lindburg Automobile Center: 11.1 mi
Gardens: 41
Nature reserves: 24
Picnic sites: 22
Peaks: 21
  • High Point St. Louis County: 3.0 mi
  • Tavern Rock: 5.3 mi
  • Bald Hill: 6.0 mi
  • Jensen's Point: 6.4 mi
  • Lost Hill: 6.5 mi
Springs: 19
  • Rockwood Spring: 0.7 mi
  • Zombie Road Spring: 3.5 mi
  • Crystal Spring: 3.8 mi
  • Babler Spring: 4.6 mi
  • Sontags Spring: 5.6 mi
Ghost towns: 5
Beaches: 5
  • Twimsberg Beach: 23.1 mi
  • Wunderblick Beach: 23.2 mi
  • Seebach Beach: 23.5 mi
  • Geneva Beach: 23.6 mi
  • Lionshead Beach: 23.8 mi
Cliffs: 4
  • Shelter bluff: 0.5 mi
  • Climbing Area: 0.5 mi
  • Vilhauer Bluff: 22.4 mi
  • La Charbonier Bluff: 22.8 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Dripping Springs: 14.3 mi
  • Deer Lake Riffles: 21.7 mi
  • Wise Falls: 22.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Tavern RockWNW 301°272 m5.3 mi
Chinkapin HillS 186°262 m12.2 mi
Herman's HilltopS 184°248 m12.0 mi
North LaBarque HillS 189°247 m12.0 mi
Frisco HillSE 137°247 m17.0 mi
South LaBarque HillS 189°244 m12.2 mi
Antire HillESE 120°237 m7.2 mi
Autumn HillWSW 247°217 m20.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:4019:15
June solstice05:3919:5120:31
September equinox06:5118:2619:01
December solstice07:1816:0416:46

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323646566675797769574536
Precip in2.42.03.54.64.64.33.33.43.03.13.32.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — ST Louis Spirit OF ST Louis AP, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Christmas fern52 obs
  • prairie trillium51 obs
  • Eastern Beebalm44 obs
  • blue phlox42 obs
  • Miami Mist38 obs
  • wild comfrey38 obs
  • rose vervain37 obs
  • fragrant sumac33 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/2597614014

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