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Turner Creek Park

Turner Creek Park from directly overhead

Turner Creek Park is a park in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 53 m. South Saddle Mountain stands 1,048 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Grace Johnson Estate, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Vineyard and Valley passes 3.8 miles off. 57 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

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How to reach it

Coordinates45.51319, -122.95302

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Attractions: 60
Artworks
Gardens
  • Baker Memorial Healing Garden: 1.3 mi
  • Lloyd Baron Rhododendron Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Pollinator Garden: 2.0 mi
  • Waterwise Garden: 2.0 mi
  • Life Community Garden: 3.7 mi
Peaks: 57
Picnic sites: 19
  • Picnic Shelter: 6.2 mi
  • The Love Garden Farm Stand: 7.8 mi
  • Stonesthrow Picnic and BBQ Area: 13.6 mi
  • Shelter A: 14.0 mi
  • Eagle Shelter: 15.4 mi
Waterfalls: 16
  • Cedar Mill Falls: 7.5 mi
  • Jackson Falls: 7.6 mi
  • Jane Martin Waterfall: 15.6 mi
  • Little Lee Falls: 15.7 mi
  • Lee Falls: 16.4 mi
Beaches: 12
  • Lindbergh’s Beach: 12.6 mi
  • Poet's Beach: 13.7 mi
  • North Beach: 16.0 mi
  • Surprise Beach: 16.0 mi
  • Reeder Beach: 16.7 mi
Ghost towns: 7
Cliffs: 6
  • Waud Bluff: 11.6 mi
  • Phantom Bluff: 14.3 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 18.9 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 19.0 mi
  • Schwingus - Rocky Butte Quarry: 19.1 mi
Springs: 4
  • Oliver Spring: 12.2 mi
  • Normandin Spring: 13.1 mi
  • Fern Spring: 14.4 mi
  • Giesy Spring: 21.4 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South Saddle MountainW 277°1,048 m20.6 mi
Woods PointW 279°940 m23.8 mi
Round TopWNW 300°909 m22.8 mi
Windy PointW 265°880 m22.4 mi
Long MountainNNW 339°689 m20.4 mi
Green MountainNNW 331°676 m18.2 mi
Buck MountainN 349°649 m18.7 mi
Bunker HillN 351°634 m24.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1618:4519:24
June solstice05:2420:1921:05
September equinox07:0018:3219:11
December solstice07:5015:4216:32

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F404246505761676762524540
Precip in5.34.03.72.62.01.30.40.51.43.45.46.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Portland-hillsboro AP, 2 mi away.

  • Pacific chorus frog152 obs
  • Mallard125 obs
  • Tree Swallow113 obs
  • American Robin103 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird102 obs
  • Great Blue Heron95 obs
  • Northern Flicker89 obs
  • Song Sparrow88 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.

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OpenStreetMap element way/879253860

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