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Skyland Park

Skyland Park from directly overhead

Skyland Park is a park in Colorado, at a modelled elevation of 1,612 m. Mount Tom stands 2,969 m to the west, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Fairfax Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway passes 15 miles off.

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Coordinates39.76488, -104.92135

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Fairfax Park: 0.6 mi
  • City of Axum Park: 0.7 mi
  • Martin Luther King Park: 0.8 mi
  • J. Langston Boyd Park: 1.1 mi
  • Turtle Park: 1.1 mi
Nature reserves
  • Park Hill Park: 0.8 mi
  • The Grove at Commons Park: 4.6 mi
  • Morrison Nature Center: 6.6 mi
  • Lowell Ponds Wildlife Area: 6.7 mi
  • Niver Creek Open Space: 7.6 mi
Artworks
  • Red Ladder Sculpture: 1.4 mi
  • Camarasaurus Sculpture: 1.7 mi
  • Ceratosaurus nasicornis sculpture: 1.7 mi
  • Snowmastodon Sculpture: 1.7 mi
  • Mother bear and cubs: 1.7 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
  • Tropical Discovery: 1.7 mi
  • Red Panda: 1.7 mi
  • The Edge (New Tiger Exhibit): 1.8 mi
  • Toyota Elephant Passage: 1.9 mi
  • Monkey Island: 2.0 mi
Gardens
  • Pollinator Garden: 1.8 mi
  • Westerly Creek Butterfly Garden: 2.5 mi
  • Bruce Randolph Community Garden: 2.6 mi
  • 36th & Lafayette Community Garden: 2.6 mi
  • Sensory Garden: 3.0 mi
Peaks
Picnic sites: 44
  • Picnic Table: 4.5 mi
  • Mount Evans Picnic Pavilions: 4.9 mi
  • Pepsi Groves: 4.9 mi
  • Sunlight Picnic Pavilion: 5.0 mi
  • Pikes Peak Picnic Pavilion: 5.0 mi
Beaches: 6
Cliffs: 5
Ghost towns: 4
Waterfalls: 1
  • Lee Gulch: 13.2 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Keyhole Rock: 17.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.2 miles of Skyland Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount TomW 279°2,969 m23.1 mi
Crescent MountainWNW 293°2,724 m22.6 mi
Doublehead MountainSW 232°2,711 m22.9 mi
Grannys HeadW 281°2,686 m22.1 mi
Bear MountainWSW 244°2,630 m21.9 mi
High PeakSW 225°2,611 m23.2 mi
Coal Creek PeakWNW 294°2,594 m21.4 mi
Independence MountainWSW 246°2,539 m21.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0418:3619:12
June solstice05:3319:5120:32
September equinox06:4818:2318:58
December solstice07:1815:5616:39

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323342485869757364514032
Precip in0.50.51.11.72.31.72.11.81.51.00.70.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Denver-stapleton, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • showy milkweed104 obs
  • Bold Jumping Spider75 obs
  • Western Honey Bee66 obs
  • Black-billed Magpie56 obs
  • Japanese Beetle55 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel52 obs
  • Seven-spotted Lady Beetle42 obs
  • dwarf mallow40 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 way/231108451

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