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Saratoga Park

Saratoga Park from directly overhead

Saratoga Park is a park in Colorado, at a recorded elevation of 1,647 m. Mount Tom stands 2,969 m to the southwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Hoover Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway passes 16 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
1647 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.97442, -105.14239

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Hoover Park: 0.0 mi
  • Sundance Park: 0.1 mi
  • Cleo Mudrock Park: 0.2 mi
  • Mission Greens Park: 0.3 mi
  • Tyler Park: 0.3 mi
Museums
Artworks
Gardens
  • Community Garden: 0.7 mi
  • Kerr Garden: 1.1 mi
  • Community garden: 2.4 mi
  • Wilson Community Gardens: 2.9 mi
  • The Giving Garden by Level 3 Foundation: 4.6 mi
Nature reserves
  • Warembourg Open Space: 0.8 mi
  • Leon Wurl Wildlife Sanctuary: 1.1 mi
  • Bowes Open Space: 1.3 mi
  • Admor Open Space: 1.3 mi
  • Aquarius Open Space: 1.5 mi
Historic sites
Peaks
Attractions
Cliffs: 48
  • Front Porch: 7.7 mi
  • Raptor Nesting Site: 8.2 mi
  • Eagle Rock: 12.8 mi
  • The Amphitheatre: 13.1 mi
  • Bitty Buttress: 13.1 mi
Picnic sites: 29
  • Barbeque: 5.9 mi
  • Red Barn Group Picnic Area: 14.4 mi
  • Mount Alto Picnic Area: 16.6 mi
  • Pikes Peak Picnic Pavilion: 16.9 mi
  • Mount Evans Picnic Pavilions: 17.0 mi
Ghost towns: 8
Waterfalls: 1
Natural arches: 1
  • Keyhole Rock: 22.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.6 miles of Saratoga Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount TomSW 225°2,969 m15.6 mi
Miramonte MountainWSW 248°2,915 m15.3 mi
Blue MountainWSW 237°2,846 m12.4 mi
Windy PeakWSW 238°2,779.776 m14.8 mi
Crescent MountainWSW 238°2,724 m10.7 mi
Sugarloaf MountainWNW 284°2,709 m15.1 mi
Grannys HeadSW 224°2,686 m14.3 mi
Scar Top MountainWSW 245°2,675 m10.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0518:3719:13
June solstice05:3319:5320:33
September equinox06:4918:2418:59
December solstice07:2015:5616:39

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343543495767737164524134
Precip in0.81.02.03.03.21.91.81.72.11.61.20.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Boulder, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Canada Goose164 obs
  • American Bullfrog126 obs
  • Mallard106 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk104 obs
  • Black-tailed Prairie Dog87 obs
  • Great Horned Owl81 obs
  • showy milkweed76 obs
  • Woodhouse's Toad76 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358951807

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