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Rolling Ridge School Park

Rolling Ridge School Park from directly overhead

Rolling Ridge School Park is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 309 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the east-southeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Oregon Trail Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 6.0 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
309 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.87752, -94.84113

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
  • Sprout: 1.4 mi
  • Theb: 1.6 mi
  • Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 3.2 mi
  • Trails West: 3.8 mi
  • "The Serpent": 7.7 mi
Attractions
Historic sites
  • Cannon: 1.6 mi
  • Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 7.9 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Plaza: 8.0 mi
  • Austin's Park Memorial: 8.2 mi
  • 9/11 Memorial: 8.7 mi
Museums: 58
  • Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture: 1.6 mi
  • Kansas City Automotive Museum: 5.2 mi
  • Ensor Park and Museum: 6.0 mi
  • Gardner Historical Museum: 6.7 mi
  • Monticello Community Historical Society: 7.0 mi
Gardens: 31
  • Green Tech Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Monarch Garden: 1.9 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 1.9 mi
  • Bee Garden: 1.9 mi
  • Bird Garden: 1.9 mi
Nature reserves: 16
Peaks: 9
Ghost towns: 7
Beaches: 3
  • Swim Beach: 7.5 mi
  • Windsurfer Beach: 14.7 mi
  • Miola Beach: 20.0 mi
Waterfalls: 2
  • Cedar Lake Falls: 2.1 mi
  • Turkey Creek Falls: 13.5 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Watts Mill: 13.4 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Miller HillESE 107°342 m22.9 mi
Bowler HillE 88°330 m24.0 mi
Blue MoundW 276°318 m18.4 mi
Fowler HillWSW 237°318 m22.0 mi
Mount OreadWNW 285°316 m22.8 mi
Shank HillW 272°304 m22.6 mi
Observation BluffW 281°277 m11.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2418:5619:32
June solstice05:5520:0920:49
September equinox07:0818:4319:18
December solstice07:3516:1917:01

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293444556574797769574534
Precip in1.31.72.54.15.35.24.74.54.23.02.41.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe 3E, 4 mi away.

  • White-tailed Deer42 obs
  • North American Wheel Bug35 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle28 obs
  • Carolina horsenettle28 obs
  • Amur honeysuckle28 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee28 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee27 obs
  • Monarch25 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/295558217

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