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Southern Lites Park

Southern Lites Park from directly overhead

Southern Lites Park is a park in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 111 m. Lookout Point stands 802 m to the east, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Sunnyside and 117th Property, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Mount Hood passes 7.7 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

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City of Happy Valley
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates45.43541, -122.54241

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Ella V. Osterman Park: 0.7 mi
  • Rebstock Park: 1.0 mi
  • Summerfield Park: 1.3 mi
  • Pfeifer Park: 1.5 mi
  • Happy Valley Park: 1.5 mi
Peaks
Artworks
Attractions
Gardens
Historic sites
  • Robert Delgado memorial: 3.9 mi
  • Clifford Stocker Memorial Parkside: 4.1 mi
  • Heart Beacon: 4.2 mi
  • Liberty: 4.5 mi
  • Pow-Wow tree: 4.8 mi
Museums: 51
Waterfalls: 45
  • Hidden Falls: 2.4 mi
  • Knapp Falls: 2.5 mi
  • Jane Martin Waterfall: 5.4 mi
  • Singer Falls: 6.2 mi
  • Willamette Falls: 6.9 mi
Picnic sites: 20
  • Picnic Area B: 5.9 mi
  • Picnic Area A: 6.1 mi
  • Willamette Falls Heritage Foundation: 6.5 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 7.2 mi
  • Picnic Area D: 7.2 mi
Cliffs: 14
  • Madrone Wall: 5.2 mi
  • Schwingus - Rocky Butte Quarry: 7.8 mi
  • Phantom Bluff: 7.8 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 7.9 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 8.1 mi
Beaches: 11
  • Poet's Beach: 7.9 mi
  • Swim beach: 9.3 mi
  • Sandy River Beach: 10.7 mi
  • Lindbergh’s Beach: 11.2 mi
  • Lieser Point: 12.0 mi
Springs: 5
  • spring w/concrete cover: 12.7 mi
  • School District Spring: 15.5 mi
  • Giesy Spring: 18.6 mi
  • Oliver Spring: 21.0 mi
  • Wahkeena Spring: 22.2 mi
Ghost towns: 4
Rest areas: 3
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.0 miles of Southern Lites Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lookout PointE 80°802 m20.3 mi
Walker PeakE 82°736 m20.1 mi
Pepper MountainENE 70°655 m19.0 mi
Lenhart ButteESE 108°638 m19.2 mi
Livingston MountainNNE 27°595 m18.8 mi
Spud MountainNNE 27°576 m19.9 mi
Angel's RestENE 65°484 m20.9 mi
Highland ButteSSE 160°470 m14.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4419:23
June solstice05:2220:1721:03
September equinox06:5818:3019:09
December solstice07:4815:4116:30

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434549536065717165564742
Precip in6.54.54.83.82.51.80.50.61.64.26.77.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oregon City, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • giant white fawn lily99 obs
  • Pacific Banana Slug88 obs
  • snow queen80 obs
  • Nuttall's toothwort69 obs
  • Rose Spirea68 obs
  • Oregon iris66 obs
  • Pacific trillium62 obs
  • stream violet62 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/131089520

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