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Ryland Park

Ryland Park from directly overhead

Ryland Park is a park in Wisconsin, at a modelled elevation of 334 m. Platte Mounds stands 435 m to the east-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Grant County History Museum, a museum 0.2 miles away. Great River Road passes 11 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.85030, -90.71022

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Courthouse Square: 0.2 mi
  • Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
  • Grant County Fairgrounds: 0.6 mi
  • Schreiner Park: 0.7 mi
  • Baus Park: 0.7 mi
Artworks: 47
  • Igor the Mouse: 9.2 mi
  • Cow: 19.6 mi
  • Coretta Scott King: 23.8 mi
  • Portal: 23.8 mi
  • Ram: 23.8 mi
Nature reserves: 24
Historic sites: 20
  • Old Rock Church: 12.9 mi
  • Anderson Mills & The Dinky Railroad: 14.4 mi
  • Veterans Memorial: 17.1 mi
  • Woodman & the Dinky railroad: 17.2 mi
  • Belmont - Wisconsin Territory 1836: 18.5 mi
Peaks: 18
Museums: 14
Attractions: 12
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 2
  • Big Spring: 20.5 mi
  • Big Spring: 21.8 mi
Beaches: 2
Waterfalls: 1
Rest areas: 1
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Platte MoundsESE 111°435 m16.5 mi
Belmont MoundESE 107°427 m19.1 mi
Little MoundESE 110°389 m17.4 mi
Sherrill MoundSSW 195°374 m17.5 mi
Balltown RidgeSW 215°355 m17.9 mi
Sinsinawa MoundSSE 159°353 m24.0 mi
Sundown MountainSSW 194°348 m23.7 mi
Mondell HillNW 306°347 m24.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:3819:15
June solstice05:2520:0320:46
September equinox06:5118:2519:02
December solstice07:3115:4616:32

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F172134475868717062493624
Precip in1.21.32.03.84.45.95.03.94.02.92.41.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lancaster 4 WSW, 4 mi away.

  • orange mycena4 obs
  • Brown Trout2 obs
  • eastern redcedar2 obs
  • chicken of the woods2 obs
  • Rusty-patched Bumble Bee2 obs
  • Bald Eagle1 obs
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak1 obs
  • Groundhog1 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/59449281

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