Tabor Recreation Area
Tabor Recreation Area is a park in South Dakota, at a recorded elevation of 379 m. Maidens Leap stands 394 m to the west-southwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Bloomfield Recreation Area, a park 1.6 miles away. Outlaw Trail passes 9.1 miles off. 56 named places lie within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 379 m
How to reach it
- 9.1 mi off the Outlaw Trail
56 named places within 25 miles
- Bloomfield Recreation Area: 1.6 mi
- Miller Creek Recreation Area: 2.5 mi
- Sioux Council Boy Scout Reservation: 2.8 mi
- Lesterville Recreation Area: 3.4 mi
- Devils Nest Recreation Area: 3.6 mi
- Pebble Beach: 2.9 mi
- Hobie Cat Beach: 8.0 mi
- Mead Museum / Dakota Territorial Museum: 13.2 mi
- Ponca Tribe Museum: 20.6 mi
- Chalkrock State Wildlife Management Area: 14.7 mi
- Niobrara State Park: 21.9 mi
- Calumet Bluff: 9.1 mi
- Maidens Leap: 16.6 mi
- Gayville Veterans Memorial: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Tabor Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maidens Leap | WSW 244° | 394 m | 16.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:06 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:30 | 21:14 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:30 |
| December solstice | 07:59 | 16:14 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 20 | 24 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 64 | 50 | 36 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Crofton, 12 mi away.
- green comet milkweed4 obs
- Low Milkvetch3 obs
- rock elm2 obs
- compass plant2 obs
- Ground-plum2 obs
- Common Lagoon Fly2 obs
- leadplant2 obs
- Missouri Milkvetch2 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/357088254
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