Park · Iowa
Veterans Memorial Field
Veterans Memorial Field is a park in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 316 m. The nearest named place is Zearing Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Great River Road passes 119 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 316 m
How to reach it
Coordinates42.16055, -93.29080
- 119.3 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 9.5 mi off the Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Zearing Park: 0.1 mi
- Zearing South Park: 0.4 mi
- Dakins Lake Park: 0.6 mi
- Praeri Rail Trail: 4.7 mi
- Reece Memorial Park: 8.2 mi
Nature reserves
- Hilker WIldlife Area: 3.8 mi
- Prairie Creek Wildlife Area: 4.8 mi
- French Grove Wildlife Area: 7.8 mi
- Colo Bog: 9.5 mi
- Colo Wetland WMA: 9.6 mi
Artworks
- Civil War Statue: 16.9 mi
- Inuksuk: 18.3 mi
- Dire Enticement: 18.5 mi
- Bird: 18.7 mi
- Jester: 18.8 mi
Historic sites: 45
- Erickson Park Monument: 10.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 11.6 mi
- Eldora Veterans Memorial: 17.4 mi
- Inis Grove Park Rock: 18.2 mi
- Aldo Leopold Rock: 18.2 mi
Gardens: 22
- Arboretum: 9.8 mi
- Kiwanis Butterfly Garden: 13.0 mi
- Eldora Community Garden: 17.6 mi
- Community Gardens: 19.8 mi
- Penkhus Campanile Garden: 20.5 mi
Museums: 15
- City of Roland Museum: 10.8 mi
- Watson's Grocery Store Museum: 11.9 mi
- Radcliffe Historical Museum: 12.9 mi
- Eldora Welcome Center & Railroad Museum: 17.4 mi
- Hardin County Farm Museum: 17.6 mi
Attractions: 6
- Story City Carousel: 15.3 mi
- Elwood the Gnome: 20.7 mi
- Turkey Pen: 21.8 mi
- Ducks: 21.8 mi
- Chickens: 21.8 mi
Picnic sites: 1
- Kiwanis Shelter: 12.6 mi
Waterfalls: 1
- Hertz Family Falls: 14.0 mi
Beaches: 1
- Pine Lake Beach: 18.1 mi
Cliffs: 1
- Steamboat Rock: 20.0 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:17 | 18:49 | 19:25 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 20:11 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 07:01 | 18:35 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:39 | 16:00 | 16:45 |
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 | 18 | 23 | 35 | 48 | 60 | 70 | 73 | 71 | 63 | 51 | 37 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.9 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 4.8 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Colo, 10 mi away.
- Red-necked Phalarope2 obs
- common milkweed2 obs
- Vesper Sparrow1 obs
- Boreal Chorus Frog1 obs
- Bluegill1 obs
- Black Crappie1 obs
- Red Clover1 obs
- Green Sunfish1 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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