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Saint Johns Park

Saint Johns Park from directly overhead

Saint Johns Park is a park in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 41 m. Elkhorn Mountain stands 679 m to the east-northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Cathedral Park, a park 0.6 miles away. JCT SR 5 VIC VANCOUVER ALONG WESTSIDE VANCOUVER LAKE TO NW LOWER RIVER RD passes 4.2 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Portland Parks & Recreation

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates45.59238, -122.75241

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Gardens
  • Garden 10: Physical Plant (North Parking Lot): 1.4 mi
  • Garden 13: Student Led Unity Garden (SLUG): 1.4 mi
  • Student Led Unity Garden (S.L.U.G.): 1.4 mi
  • Garden 12: N. Monteith Ave & N. Warren St.: 1.5 mi
  • Garden 9: River Campus Dock: 1.5 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
  • The Broken Wall Memorial: 1.9 mi
  • Rob Strasser Field: 3.6 mi
  • William V. Owens Softball Complex: 3.6 mi
  • Peace Pole: 4.2 mi
  • Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Plaza: 4.3 mi
Attractions
Peaks
  • Cornell Mountain: 4.6 mi
  • Swede Hill: 5.3 mi
  • Elk Point: 5.5 mi
  • Council Crest: 6.8 mi
  • Rocky Point: 9.2 mi
Museums: 53
Picnic sites: 26
Waterfalls: 19
  • Cedar Mill Falls: 5.1 mi
  • Jackson Falls: 9.2 mi
  • Jane Martin Waterfall: 9.6 mi
  • Knapp Falls: 12.6 mi
  • Pothole Falls: 16.9 mi
Beaches: 15
  • Lindbergh’s Beach: 3.7 mi
  • Surprise Beach: 4.9 mi
  • North Beach: 5.0 mi
  • Poet's Beach: 7.1 mi
  • Lieser Point: 8.2 mi
Cliffs: 8
  • Waud Bluff: 1.9 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 9.4 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 9.6 mi
  • Schwingus - Rocky Butte Quarry: 9.7 mi
  • Phantom Bluff: 13.1 mi
Ghost towns: 5
Rest areas: 4
Springs: 4
  • School District Spring: 16.0 mi
  • Fern Spring: 17.4 mi
  • Oliver Spring: 20.1 mi
  • Normandin Spring: 21.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.2 miles of Saint Johns Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Elkhorn MountainENE 61°679 m21.0 mi
Green MountainWNW 300°676 m21.2 mi
Buck MountainNW 315°649 m18.4 mi
Tater HillNW 315°618 m20.2 mi
Livingston MountainENE 72°595 m19.5 mi
Spud MountainENE 70°576 m20.3 mi
Rye HillNW 307°566 m16.9 mi
Bald MountainWNW 295°539 m19.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1518:4519:24
June solstice05:2320:1921:04
September equinox06:5918:3119:10
December solstice07:4915:4116:31

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F414347525863696964544641
Precip in5.33.83.92.92.51.60.40.51.43.45.56.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Vancouver Pearson AP, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Pacific Banana Slug115 obs
  • Pacific trillium98 obs
  • Bold Jumping Spider77 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle76 obs
  • fringe cups65 obs
  • Cross Orbweaver64 obs
  • tree-of-heaven63 obs
  • western maidenhair fern58 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/27400985

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