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Timberridge Adventure Center

Timberridge Adventure Center from directly overhead

Timberridge Adventure Center is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 276 m. Blue Mound stands 318 m to the west, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Kill Creek Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 11 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
276 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.90460, -94.96840

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
  • Theb: 8.0 mi
  • Sprout: 8.3 mi
  • Trails West: 9.3 mi
  • Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 10.3 mi
  • "The Serpent": 12.1 mi
Attractions
Historic sites
  • Cannon: 8.6 mi
  • Dorothy Akin Memorial Prairie: 10.1 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Plaza: 12.0 mi
  • Kansas Historical Marker #9 - Lawrence & The Old Trails: 12.0 mi
  • Breezedale: 14.6 mi
Museums: 54
Gardens: 28
  • Green Tech Garden: 6.3 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 8.9 mi
  • Monarch Garden: 8.9 mi
  • Bird Garden: 9.0 mi
  • Pollinator Prarie: 9.0 mi
Peaks: 9
Ghost towns: 8
Beaches: 4
  • Swim Beach: 0.7 mi
  • Windsurfer Beach: 16.6 mi
  • Bloomington Beach: 21.5 mi
  • Miola Beach: 22.8 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Cedar Lake Falls: 7.5 mi
  • Turkey Creek Falls: 17.5 mi
  • Wakarusa River Falls: 19.1 mi
  • Angel Falls: 23.9 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Watts Mill: 19.7 mi
  • Overlook Park Shelter 1: 20.1 mi
  • Overlook Park Shelter 2: 20.2 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Blue MoundW 270°318 m11.5 mi
Fowler HillSW 220°318 m18.1 mi
Nolan HillNW 308°317 m22.8 mi
Mount OreadWNW 285°316 m15.7 mi
Shank HillW 266°304 m15.8 mi
Sanders MoundW 276°288 m20.1 mi
Observation BluffW 273°277 m4.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2418:5719:32
June solstice05:5520:0920:49
September equinox07:0818:4319:19
December solstice07:3616:2017:02

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303445556575797769574434
Precip in1.11.52.33.85.15.34.24.03.73.31.91.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe Johnson CO IND AP, 7 mi away.

  • Ring-necked Snake74 obs
  • Common Five-lined Skink44 obs
  • Western Worm Snake39 obs
  • Blanchard's Cricket Frog30 obs
  • Eastern Copperhead21 obs
  • mayapple19 obs
  • Ohio buckeye19 obs
  • common milkweed17 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 node/358644363

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