Sinkin Experimental Forest
Sinkin Experimental Forest is a park in Missouri, at a recorded elevation of 379 m. Bell Mountain stands 519 m to the east-northeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Red Hill, a peak 1.8 miles away. Great River Road passes 74 miles off. 150 named places lie within 25 miles, 32 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 379 m
How to reach it
- 74.3 mi off the Great River Road, National
150 named places within 25 miles
- Rock Spring: 6.4 mi
- Swiney Spring: 8.9 mi
- Cooks Spring: 10.0 mi
- Mill Spring: 10.2 mi
- Howes Mill Spring: 10.2 mi
- Red Hill: 1.8 mi
- Tower Hill: 6.5 mi
- Ball Hill: 8.8 mi
- Bald Knob: 10.4 mi
- Cedar Point: 13.7 mi
- Scotia Demonstration Area: 4.0 mi
- Loggers Lake Recreation Area: 6.8 mi
- Echo Bluff State Park: 14.4 mi
- Current River State Park: 14.4 mi
- Jadwin Community Center Grounds: 16.2 mi
- Upper Dugan Bluff: 13.5 mi
- Panther Bluff: 13.5 mi
- Lower Dugan Bluff: 14.0 mi
- Echo Bluff: 14.2 mi
- Sutton Bluff: 14.2 mi
- Ozark Trail Southern John Roth Memorial: 13.7 mi
- Veteran's Memorial: 16.6 mi
- Welch Spring Hospital: 17.9 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 18.4 mi
- SHS Tiger Tank: 18.8 mi
- The Deer Statue: 17.9 mi
- Welch Spring: 17.9 mi
- The Gassy Pig: 18.0 mi
- The Gassy Pig: 18.0 mi
- Cross Country Trail Rides: 23.3 mi
- Pulltite: 15.5 mi
- Beach 3: 23.3 mi
- Beach 2: 23.4 mi
- Beach 3: 23.5 mi
- Shawnee Mac Lakes Conservation Area: 17.2 mi
- Cedar Grove Conservation Area: 18.0 mi
- Powder Mill Cave Natural Area: 21.1 mi
- Joshua T. Chilton Memorial Access: 23.6 mi
- Sinking Creek Day Use Area: 14.8 mi
- Round Spring: 16.1 mi
- Skyline Roadside Park: 22.1 mi
- Dent county museum: 18.0 mi
- Bonebrake Center of Nature and History: 18.2 mi
- Taum Sauk Nature Museum: 24.4 mi
- Turner Natural Bridge: 8.4 mi
- Round Spring Natural Bridge: 16.1 mi
- Wolf Pen Hollow Waterfall: 18.5 mi
- Johnson Shut-Ins: 23.9 mi
- Horseshoe Horse: 23.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sinkin Experimental Forest. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Mountain | ENE 66° | 519 m | 24.1 mi |
| Lindsey Mountain | ENE 69° | 507 m | 24.5 mi |
| High Top Mountain | ENE 75° | 483 m | 24.7 mi |
| High Top Mountain | ENE 75° | 483 m | 24.7 mi |
| Goggins Mountain | E 80° | 452 m | 21.1 mi |
| Red Hill | ENE 66° | 410 m | 1.8 mi |
| Crooked Hill | N 359° | 410 m | 15.7 mi |
| Sullivan Hill | N 6° | 410 m | 20.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:43 | 19:17 |
| June solstice | 05:45 | 19:51 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:10 | 16:51 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 37 | 46 | 56 | 64 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Salem, 18 mi away.
- Milkweed Tussock Moth4 obs
- Io Moth3 obs
- tall bellflower3 obs
- Spring Peeper2 obs
- shortleaf pine2 obs
- Pipevine Swallowtail2 obs
- downy rattlesnake plantain2 obs
- American Nursery Web Spider2 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358066312
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