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Rudd Park

Rudd Park from directly overhead

Rudd Park is a park in Colorado, at a recorded elevation of 1,627 m. Big Bull Mountain stands 3,303 m to the north-northeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Greydene Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Gold Belt Tour passes 0.4 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
1627 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.44851, -105.23377

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Nonans Peak: 2.5 mi
  • Fremont Peak: 2.7 mi
  • Y M C A Mountain: 3.3 mi
  • Baldy Mountain: 4.2 mi
  • Dawson Mountain: 5.9 mi
Cliffs: 20
  • Stony Point: 10.6 mi
  • Far Side: 11.8 mi
  • Fish Wall: 11.8 mi
  • California Ethics Pinnacle: 11.9 mi
  • Bulge Wall: 11.9 mi
Parks: 17
  • Greydene Park: 0.3 mi
  • Magdalene Park: 0.6 mi
  • Margrette Park: 0.6 mi
  • Veterans Park: 1.0 mi
  • Centennial Park: 1.0 mi
Museums: 10
Attractions: 7
Ghost towns: 6
Artworks: 6
  • John C. Fremont: 5.6 mi
  • Brachiosaurus: 5.9 mi
  • Anklyosaurus: 5.9 mi
  • Allosaurus: 6.0 mi
  • Rita the Rock Planter: 18.3 mi
Historic sites: 2
  • Jackson Hill: 17.1 mi
  • Gresson Ore Sorting: 19.0 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Hot springs: 1
  • Dakota Hot Springs: 9.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.7 miles of Rudd Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Big Bull MountainNNE 20°3,303 m19.5 mi
Brind MountainNNE 20°3,196 m18.1 mi
Hardscrabble MountainS 173°3,164 m17.8 mi
Evening Star MountainNNE 14°3,153 m19.0 mi
Adobe PeakS 172°3,100 m16.7 mi
Straub MountainNNE 15°3,060 m17.5 mi
Crown PointNE 42°3,023 m18.4 mi
Nipple MountainNNE 24°3,022 m14.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0518:3819:13
June solstice05:3819:4920:29
September equinox06:4918:2519:00
December solstice07:1516:0316:44

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343542495868747264524234
Precip in0.50.61.01.81.60.82.22.11.20.90.50.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Canon City, under a mile away.

  • Colorado Checkered Whiptail29 obs
  • Mule Deer24 obs
  • tree cholla23 obs
  • Prairie Lizard22 obs
  • Mallard17 obs
  • Canada Goose17 obs
  • Habronattus arcalorus16 obs
  • American Robin15 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/224701122

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