Spillway Recreation Area
Spillway Recreation Area is a park in Missouri, at a recorded elevation of 109 m. Logan Mountain stands 312 m to the north-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Redman Creek Recreation Area, a park 0.4 miles away. Great River Road - Missouri passes 37 miles off. 82 named places lie within 25 miles, 19 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 109 m
How to reach it
- 36.6 mi off the Great River Road - Missouri
- 49.9 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 19.5 mi off the Stars and Stripes Historical/Cultural Byway
- 28.0 mi off the Crowley's Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Lookout/Ob Deck · 7 mi
- Monolopy Overlook Platform · 7 mi
- Lookout/Ob Deck · 8 mi
- HWY 51 Overlook · 9 mi
82 named places within 25 miles
- Redman Creek Recreation Area: 0.4 mi
- Eagle Point Recreation Area: 0.9 mi
- Rockwood Point Recreation Area: 1.3 mi
- Lake Wappapello State Park: 2.9 mi
- Yokum School Conservation Area: 5.8 mi
- Butter Shell Hill: 1.9 mi
- Shaw Ridge: 7.2 mi
- Bee OPress Ridge: 7.9 mi
- Sand Blow Ridge: 8.7 mi
- Cow Knoll Ridge: 8.7 mi
- Chaonia: 5.4 mi
- Ojibway: 7.7 mi
- Taskee Station: 10.4 mi
- Kime: 10.8 mi
- Poplin: 12.1 mi
- Devils Washboard: 5.2 mi
- Fry Bluff: 6.1 mi
- Halls Bluff: 9.9 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 14.7 mi
- Snake Bluff: 15.4 mi
- Mingo Wilderness: 4.4 mi
- Mingo National Wildlife Refuge: 7.3 mi
- Hilliard Access: 10.6 mi
- Duck Creek Conservation Area (Dark Cypress Swamp Unit): 22.0 mi
- Poplar Bluff Museum: 12.9 mi
- Margaret Harwell Art Museum: 13.1 mi
- Dexter Welcome Center Depot and Museum: 20.1 mi
- Poplar Bluff Depot: 13.4 mi
- Frisco Depot: 13.4 mi
- Caboose: 20.0 mi
- Markham Spring: 18.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Spillway Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logan Mountain | NNW 331° | 312 m | 24.0 mi |
| Daffron Mountain | NW 319° | 259 m | 24.6 mi |
| Wilcox Mountain | NW 313° | 256 m | 23.8 mi |
| Carson Hill | WNW 288° | 232 m | 23.0 mi |
| Pinhook Hill | WSW 251° | 229 m | 21.5 mi |
| Bunkers Knob | WNW 285° | 228 m | 21.1 mi |
| Childers Hill | N 358° | 213 m | 9.3 mi |
| Flynn Hill | NNW 328° | 178 m | 14.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:46 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:25 | 19:00 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 16:08 | 16:49 |
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 | 33 | 37 | 46 | 57 | 66 | 75 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.5 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wappapello DAM, under a mile away.
- Red Buckeye5 obs
- Bigmouth Buffalo5 obs
- Spotted Bass5 obs
- White Crappie4 obs
- Smallmouth Buffalo4 obs
- Orangespotted Sunfish4 obs
- White Bass4 obs
- Freshwater Drum3 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/358065449
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