University Park
University Park is a park in Kentucky, at a recorded elevation of 213 m. Bee Knob Hill stands 306 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame, a museum 1.7 miles away. Lincoln Heritage Scenic Highway passes 11 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 213 m
How to reach it
- 10.8 mi off the Lincoln Heritage Scenic Highway, National
- 10.8 mi off the Old Kentucky Turnpike
- 196.4 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook Landing - Pathway of a President · 13 mi
- Overlook Trail · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Tunnel Hill: 5.4 mi
- Miller Hill: 7.7 mi
- Cecil Hill: 8.9 mi
- Gross Hill: 9.1 mi
- Blueball Hill: 9.5 mi
- Haycraft Mill Park: 1.8 mi
- American Legion Park: 2.6 mi
- Freeman Lake Park: 2.9 mi
- Freeman Lake Park: 3.1 mi
- Elizabethtown Nature Park: 3.9 mi
- Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame: 1.7 mi
- Hardin County Museum: 1.7 mi
- Swope's Cars of Yesteryear: 2.4 mi
- The Lincoln Museum: 10.8 mi
- Patton Museum Foundation: 15.7 mi
- The Cannonball: 1.7 mi
- Abraham Lincoln Statue: 10.8 mi
- Tank: 11.7 mi
- Memorial Building: 13.1 mi
- Kentucky September 11th Memorial: 13.7 mi
- Abraham Lincoln Birth Cabin: 13.1 mi
- Site of the Boundary Oak: 13.1 mi
- Abraham Lincoln Birthplace: 13.2 mi
- Jim Beam Distillery: 21.4 mi
- Jim Beam Distillery: 21.5 mi
- Rise of Rough Spring: 11.0 mi
- Sinking Spring: 13.1 mi
- Blue Hole Spring: 18.3 mi
- Round Stone Spring: 18.4 mi
- Distillerie Four Roses: 23.3 mi
- Potlick Point: 10.9 mi
- Buzzard Cliff: 12.6 mi
- Cow Cliff: 12.9 mi
- Cedar Point: 17.6 mi
- The Narrows: 22.6 mi
- Vernon Douglas State Nature Preserve: 10.1 mi
- Bernheim Forest and Arboretum: 20.2 mi
- The Boy Lincoln: 10.8 mi
- Saint Joseph Statue: 19.4 mi
- Native Plants Garden: 12.4 mi
- Bullitt County Welcome Center: 21.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.4 miles of University Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bee Knob Hill | NW 316° | 306 m | 17.0 mi |
| Blueball Hill | WNW 295° | 304 m | 9.5 mi |
| Dawson Knob | NNE 18° | 295 m | 17.5 mi |
| Watson Knob | E 87° | 295 m | 19.4 mi |
| Gross Hill | W 267° | 294 m | 9.1 mi |
| Forty-Acre Knob | E 90° | 294 m | 18.8 mi |
| Cambron Knob | E 89° | 294 m | 19.2 mi |
| Jacobs Knob | S 184° | 292 m | 13.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:48 | 19:21 | 19:56 |
| June solstice | 06:23 | 20:30 | 21:09 |
| September equinox | 07:32 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| December solstice | 07:56 | 16:48 | 17:29 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 37 | 45 | 56 | 65 | 73 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 5.8 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elizabethtown WP CS, under a mile away.
- Western Honey Bee5 obs
- Monarch5 obs
- Virginia bluebells5 obs
- fortune's spindle5 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel4 obs
- Variegated Fritillary4 obs
- shining sumac4 obs
- mock strawberry4 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/358610204
Day trips start here
- Shepherdsville · 23 mi
- Bardstown · 25 mi
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