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Snatch Creek Recreation Area

Snatch Creek Recreation Area from directly overhead

Snatch Creek Recreation Area is a park in South Dakota, at a recorded elevation of 372 m. Maidens Leap stands 394 m to the southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Sand Creek Recreation Area, a park 1.6 miles away. Outlaw Trail passes 11 miles off. 58 named places lie within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
372 m

How to reach it

Coordinates42.88194, -97.79923

58 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 48
Museums: 3
Nature reserves: 3
Beaches: 2
  • Pebble Beach: 10.3 mi
  • Hobie Cat Beach: 15.3 mi
Peaks: 1
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Snatch Creek Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Maidens LeapSW 221°394 m11.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3519:0619:44
June solstice05:5320:3121:14
September equinox07:1918:5319:30
December solstice08:0016:1417:00

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F192335465969747263493523
Precip in0.60.81.42.94.03.43.33.32.72.21.00.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tyndall, 8 mi away.

  • henbit deadnettle2 obs
  • white mulberry2 obs
  • common reed2 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle1 obs
  • Bull Thistle1 obs
  • pineapple-weed1 obs
  • prickly sowthistle1 obs
  • Prickly Russian Thistle1 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357095906

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