Root Common Park
Root Common Park is a park in Wisconsin, at a modelled elevation of 208 m. Powder Hill stands 405 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Wauwatosa Pocket Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Wauwatosa Pocket Park: 0.0 mi
- Menomonee River Parkway: 0.1 mi
- Charles Hart Park: 0.3 mi
- Applecroft Park: 0.6 mi
- Northeast Quadrant: 0.7 mi
- Sunnyhill Home: 0.3 mi
- Lowell Damon House Museum: 0.5 mi
- Men's Pavillion: 0.9 mi
- Goethe-Schiller Monument: 1.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 2.0 mi
- Chrysalis: 1.4 mi
- The Ideal Scout: 1.6 mi
- Tree of Life: 1.8 mi
- Uptown Triangles: 1.8 mi
- History of West Allis: 1.9 mi
- Idamel Wilmont Borchert Flamingo Exhibit: 2.0 mi
- Herb & Nada Mahler Family Aviary: 2.0 mi
- Taylor Family Humboldt Penguin Exhibit: 2.0 mi
- Wong Family Pheasantry: 2.0 mi
- Zoo Terrace: 2.0 mi
- Forestry Education and Awareness Center: 1.5 mi
- Menomonee Valley Bioretention Facility: 3.4 mi
- Joan Stevens Woods: 5.4 mi
- Fountain Square Nature Area: 5.5 mi
- Lakeshore State Park: 5.8 mi
- Monarch Waystation: 1.2 mi
- Hawley Environmental School Praire Garden: 1.4 mi
- Miller Brewing Rain Garden and Bioretention Swale: 1.9 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 2.1 mi
- Potawatomi Serenity Garden: 2.4 mi
- Little Red Store: 0.1 mi
- Kneeland-Walker House & Preservation Center: 0.4 mi
- The Little Nature Museum: 1.1 mi
- Wisconsin Black Historical Society: 3.3 mi
- Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion: 3.6 mi
- Chestnut Street Commons: 0.4 mi
- Oak Leaf Trail Picnic Area: 0.4 mi
- Bridge Picnic Area: 0.4 mi
- Picnic Area 2: 0.9 mi
- Picnic Area 1: 1.1 mi
- Silurian Spring: 11.2 mi
- Hygeia Spring: 15.5 mi
- Nemahbin Spring: 20.2 mi
- Parry Spring: 22.5 mi
- Hillside Spring: 24.5 mi
- Pebble Beach: 5.8 mi
- McKinley Beach: 6.3 mi
- Bradford Beach: 6.8 mi
- Private Beach: 11.8 mi
- Grant Park Beach: 12.7 mi
- Root Creek: 5.5 mi
- Brookfield Center: 7.2 mi
- Denoon: 16.3 mi
- Raymond Center: 17.2 mi
- Muskego Settlement: 22.4 mi
- North Point Lighthouse: 6.9 mi
- North Point Lighthouse: 6.9 mi
- Port Washington Breakwater Light: 24.3 mi
- Port Washington Light Station: 24.6 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 24.6 mi
- Mount Bayside: 10.5 mi
- Lapham Hill: 19.5 mi
- Holy Hill: 21.0 mi
- Buena Park Hill: 21.1 mi
- Powder Hill: 23.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Root Common Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powder Hill | NW 320° | 405 m | 23.8 mi |
| Holy Hill | NW 310° | 376 m | 21.0 mi |
| Lapham Hill | W 266° | 368 m | 19.5 mi |
| Buena Park Hill | SSW 212° | 290 m | 21.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:52 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 15:34 | 16:21 |
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 | 22 | 25 | 35 | 46 | 58 | 68 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 51 | 39 | 28 |
| Precip in | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 1.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Mary College, 2 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer112 obs
- American Robin95 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk87 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel79 obs
- white snakeroot76 obs
- Virginia waterleaf75 obs
- bloodroot74 obs
- common buckthorn73 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/138516311
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