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Sutton Park

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Sutton Park is a park in Florida, at a modelled elevation of 4 m. Big Cockroach Mound stands 7 m to the north-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Manatee County Agricultural Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. TAMIAMI TRAIL HWY (OBS) runs past it. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates27.51702, -82.57634

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Lamb Park: 0.1 mi
  • Riverside Park: 0.5 mi
  • 17th Street Park: 0.8 mi
  • Palmetto Estuary Nature Preserve: 0.8 mi
  • Marther Luther King Jr Park: 0.8 mi
Artworks: 48
Museums: 39
Historic sites: 38
Beaches: 28
Gardens: 18
  • Secret Garden: 9.2 mi
  • Mabel Ringling's Rose Garden: 9.3 mi
  • Drawf Garden: 9.3 mi
  • Merchants Community Garden: 9.9 mi
  • Sarasota Garden Club: 12.2 mi
Nature reserves: 16
Attractions: 13
  • Manatee County Fair: 0.7 mi
  • Lincoln Park: 1.3 mi
  • Linder Turf and Tractor: 5.4 mi
  • Passage Key Dolphin Tours: 8.4 mi
  • Public Beach Access Point: 10.3 mi
Picnic sites: 4
Peaks: 3
  • Portavant Indian Mound: 3.2 mi
  • Big Cockroach Mound: 12.1 mi
  • Caloosa Indian Mound: 24.5 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Manatee Mineral Spring: 2.1 mi
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Big Cockroach MoundNNE 16°7 m12.1 mi
Caloosa Indian MoundSE 128°6 m24.5 mi
Portavant Indian MoundWNW 288°1 m3.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3519:1119:42
June solstice06:3619:5520:29
September equinox07:2018:5719:28
December solstice07:1717:0617:41

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F626568737882848482776965
Precip in2.82.03.12.53.59.08.910.17.42.91.82.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bradenton 5 ESE, 7 mi away.

  • Brown Anole57 obs
  • Atala44 obs
  • Brown Pelican35 obs
  • red mangrove32 obs
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron25 obs
  • White Ibis22 obs
  • Little Blue Heron21 obs
  • Cuban Tree Frog20 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 way/469262491

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