Stanley Nature Park
Stanley Nature Park is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 302 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the east-southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Wilderness Lake Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 1.1 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 302 m
How to reach it
- 1.1 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
- 19.0 mi off the Spirit of Kansas City
- 19.5 mi off the Cliff Drive
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Blind · 3 mi
- Kaw Point · 20 mi
- Scarrit Point · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Wilderness Lake Park: 0.8 mi
- Creekside Park: 0.8 mi
- Green Meadows Park: 1.0 mi
- Brittany Park: 1.3 mi
- Kingston Lake Park: 1.6 mi
- Elephant Taking A Bath: 0.8 mi
- Grazing Giraffes: 0.9 mi
- Two frogs by Elliott Carlson: 2.9 mi
- Geometric stratum by Tom Brewitz: 2.9 mi
- Little scoundrel: 3.0 mi
- Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 3.7 mi
- Austin's Park Memorial: 4.2 mi
- Quantrill's Raids and the Military Road 1862: 4.7 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 4.9 mi
- Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport: 5.2 mi
- Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead: 3.9 mi
- Old Red Bridge Love Locks: 7.7 mi
- M101: 8.9 mi
- Candy Cane Lane: 10.4 mi
- Concorde Nose: 13.1 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 6.9 mi
- Hertha-Bethany Falls-Winterset Limestone Outcrop: 11.3 mi
- Bethany Falls & Winterset Limestone Outcrops: 12.2 mi
- Normal Fault in cliff: 12.4 mi
- Normal Fault in cliff: 12.4 mi
- Historic State Bank of Stanley Building: 1.7 mi
- Prairie Oak Nature Center: 2.3 mi
- Oxford School: 2.4 mi
- Museum at Prairiefire: 3.3 mi
- Wonderscope Children Museum: 5.0 mi
- Resident Gardens: 3.1 mi
- Bee Garden: 8.6 mi
- Monarch Garden: 8.6 mi
- Bird Garden: 8.6 mi
- Pollinator Prarie: 8.6 mi
- Overland Park: 2.5 mi
- Overland Park: 2.5 mi
- Miller Hill: 12.5 mi
- Bowler Hill: 14.5 mi
- Snowball Hill: 21.4 mi
- Blue Valley Wilderness Science Center Wilderness Area: 1.0 mi
- Saeger Woods Conservation Area: 5.5 mi
- Heartland Overlook Preserve: 10.1 mi
- Children's Memorial Butterfly Garden: 14.4 mi
- Hillsdale Recreation Area: 17.8 mi
- Powell: 8.9 mi
- West Union: 11.5 mi
- Kimpton: 17.4 mi
- Quindaro Townsite: 22.1 mi
- Windsurfer Beach: 17.5 mi
- Swim Beach: 17.9 mi
- Miola Beach: 19.9 mi
- Swimming Beach: 20.7 mi
- Watts Mill: 7.9 mi
- Family Picnic Area: 23.6 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 10.4 mi
- Turkey Creek Falls: 13.9 mi
- Pioneer Spring: 22.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Stanley Nature Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Hill | ESE 107° | 342 m | 12.5 mi |
| Bowler Hill | ENE 75° | 330 m | 14.5 mi |
| Brookhart Hill | SE 131° | 309 m | 21.7 mi |
| Kohler Hill | ESE 123° | 307 m | 23.7 mi |
| Herrell Hill | SSE 151° | 299 m | 23.3 mi |
| Christiansen Mound | SSE 155° | 299 m | 23.6 mi |
| Schindorff Hill | ESE 110° | 297 m | 24.4 mi |
| Snowball Hill | SE 133° | 295 m | 21.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 16:19 | 17:01 |
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 | 30 | 35 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 74 | 78 | 77 | 68 | 57 | 44 | 34 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 3.9 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe Johnson CO Executive AP, 5 mi away.
- Amur honeysuckle47 obs
- Illinois bundleflower28 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle22 obs
- Differential Grasshopper22 obs
- Mallard20 obs
- Osage-orange19 obs
- Western Honey Bee18 obs
- American pokeweed17 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 way/131923279
Day trips start here
- Lenexa · 9 mi
- Olathe · 9 mi
- Overland Park · 10 mi
- Lee's Summit · 16 mi
- Kansas City · 19 mi
- Kansas City Area · 19 mi
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