Shawnee Park
Shawnee Park is a park in Kentucky, at a modelled elevation of 139 m. Round Knob stands 304 m to the north, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is E. Leland Taylor Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Ohio River Scenic Byway passes 0.9 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Louisville Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 0.9 mi off the Ohio River Scenic Byway, National
- 0.9 mi off the Indiana's Historic Pathways, National
- 4.2 mi off the River Road
- 159.0 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- E. Leland Taylor Park: 0.7 mi
- Shawnee Playground: 0.9 mi
- Bicentennial Park: 1.1 mi
- Portland Wharf Park: 1.2 mi
- W C Culbertson Mansion: 1.2 mi
- Pine Hill: 1.9 mi
- Lost Knob: 4.2 mi
- Pigeon Roost: 4.3 mi
- Spickert Knob: 5.0 mi
- Pickle Pear Knob: 5.1 mi
- Promised Lands: 1.0 mi
- New Albany, Indiana. 1850’s: 1.0 mi
- Lucy Higgs Nichols: 1.0 mi
- Winged Man: 1.0 mi
- Landscape: 1.1 mi
- New Albany Sign: 0.9 mi
- Old Clarksville Site: 2.7 mi
- Evan Williams Bourbon Experience: 3.5 mi
- Belle of Louisville: 3.7 mi
- Clark-Floyd Counties Convention & Tourism Bureau: 3.9 mi
- In Loving Memory of Darrell Anthony Sweet: 0.9 mi
- Division Street School: 1.9 mi
- U.S. Marine Hospital: 2.1 mi
- York Historical Marker: 3.6 mi
- Lewis and Clark Expedition Historical Marker: 3.6 mi
- Floyd County Historical Society Padgett Museum: 1.0 mi
- Carnegie Center for Art and History: 1.2 mi
- Portland Museum: 1.9 mi
- Falls of the Ohio Interpretive Center: 3.2 mi
- Frazier History Museum: 3.2 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 7.6 mi
- Jefferson Memorial Forest: 12.4 mi
- Jefferson Memorial Forest: 12.9 mi
- Jefferson Memorial Forest: 13.1 mi
- Jefferson Memorial Forest: 13.4 mi
- Picnic Area: 4.2 mi
- Picnic Area: 4.3 mi
- Picnic Area: 4.3 mi
- Picnic-in-the-Park Pavilions: 6.6 mi
- Cedar Grove: 15.0 mi
- Vault Point: 10.1 mi
- Blunk Point: 10.4 mi
- Water: 17.0 mi
- Cedar Point: 22.0 mi
- The Narrows: 22.9 mi
- Scribner Garden: 1.0 mi
- Underground Railroad Gardens: 1.0 mi
- Waterfront Botanical Gardens: 5.4 mi
- Community Garden: 5.6 mi
- Iroquois Flowers: 6.0 mi
- Springville: 13.1 mi
- Wynnsboro: 23.6 mi
- Miles Spring: 16.0 mi
- Grable Spring: 16.3 mi
- Oldham County (Crestwood) Northbound Rest Area: 17.2 mi
- Bullitt County Welcome Center: 23.4 mi
- Fairmont Falls Arch: 18.0 mi
- Fairmont Falls: 18.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.9 miles of Shawnee Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round Knob | N 353° | 304 m | 17.4 mi |
| Hickman Hill | WSW 252° | 302 m | 6.2 mi |
| Spickert Knob | NNW 343° | 289 m | 5.0 mi |
| Daisy Hill | NNW 340° | 282 m | 16.9 mi |
| Williams Knob | NNW 343° | 282 m | 17.1 mi |
| Seigs Hill | W 279° | 281 m | 21.8 mi |
| Henry Ott Hill | W 279° | 278 m | 20.7 mi |
| Bowers Knob | NNW 339° | 274 m | 18.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:48 | 19:21 | 19:55 |
| June solstice | 06:21 | 20:31 | 21:11 |
| September equinox | 07:32 | 19:07 | 19:42 |
| December solstice | 07:57 | 16:46 | 17:27 |
Local time (America/Kentucky/Louisville).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 38 | 47 | 58 | 68 | 76 | 79 | 78 | 72 | 60 | 47 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Louisville Mcalpine, 2 mi away.
- ground-ivy10 obs
- American Robin9 obs
- American trumpet vine9 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee9 obs
- common star-of-Bethlehem8 obs
- Amur honeysuckle8 obs
- garlic mustard7 obs
- Japanese Chaff Flower7 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/38727506
Day trips start here
- New Albany · 1 mi
- Louisville · 3 mi
- Clarksville · 4 mi
- Floyds Knobs · 5 mi
- Jeffersonville · 5 mi
- Georgetown · 8 mi
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