Veterans Park
Veterans Park is a park in Kansas, at a modelled elevation of 327 m. Fowler Hill stands 318 m to the west-southwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Westside Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 13 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 13.1 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
- 27.5 mi off the Spirit of Kansas City
- 29.0 mi off the Cliff Drive
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Blind · 13 mi
- Kaw Point · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Westside Park: 0.8 mi
- Meadowbrook Park: 0.9 mi
- Cornerstone Park: 1.0 mi
- Brookside Park: 1.1 mi
- Stone Creek Park: 1.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial Plaza: 5.3 mi
- Cannon: 7.8 mi
- Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 13.7 mi
- Austin's Park Memorial: 14.3 mi
- Dorothy Akin Memorial Prairie: 14.3 mi
- Trails West: 5.5 mi
- Sprout: 8.4 mi
- Theb: 8.7 mi
- Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 9.5 mi
- Copper Hopper Chopper by David Seitzinger: 12.7 mi
- Gardner Historical Museum: 0.8 mi
- Lanesfield Historic Site: 3.5 mi
- Ensor Park and Museum: 6.7 mi
- Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture: 8.4 mi
- Kansas City Automotive Museum: 12.2 mi
- Green Tech Garden: 7.2 mi
- Monarch Garden: 8.6 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 8.6 mi
- Bee Garden: 8.6 mi
- Bird Garden: 8.6 mi
- Hillsdale Recreation Area: 7.1 mi
- Douglas State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area: 12.6 mi
- Rice Woodland: 13.7 mi
- Breidenthal Biological Reserve: 14.2 mi
- Roy and Eleanor Wall Woods: 14.7 mi
- M101: 7.8 mi
- Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead: 13.3 mi
- Midland Railway Baldwin City Depot: 14.8 mi
- Louisburg Cider Mill: 15.4 mi
- Candy Cane Lane: 19.6 mi
- Observation Bluff: 9.9 mi
- Overland Park: 14.6 mi
- Overland Park: 14.6 mi
- Fowler Hill: 15.3 mi
- Blue Mound: 15.5 mi
- Prairie City: 15.6 mi
- Franklin: 16.2 mi
- Dennison: 17.3 mi
- Powell: 19.1 mi
- Hackett: 20.2 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 14.1 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 16.6 mi
- Badger Ridge: 23.1 mi
- Hertha-Bethany Falls-Winterset Limestone Outcrop: 24.0 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 24.1 mi
- Swim Beach: 8.2 mi
- Windsurfer Beach: 9.1 mi
- Miola Beach: 15.2 mi
- Bloomington Beach: 24.8 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 5.4 mi
- Turkey Creek Falls: 20.7 mi
- Wakarusa River Falls: 23.0 mi
- Watts Mill: 20.0 mi
- Overlook Park Shelter 1: 24.1 mi
- Overlook Park Shelter 2: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Veterans Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fowler Hill | WSW 244° | 318 m | 15.3 mi |
| Blue Mound | WNW 298° | 318 m | 15.5 mi |
| Mount Oread | WNW 303° | 316 m | 20.7 mi |
| Shank Hill | WNW 289° | 304 m | 19.0 mi |
| Sanders Mound | WNW 293° | 288 m | 24.0 mi |
| Observation Bluff | NW 319° | 277 m | 9.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:57 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:09 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:20 | 17:02 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 34 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 75 | 79 | 77 | 69 | 57 | 44 | 34 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe Johnson CO IND AP, 3 mi away.
- Common Snapping Turtle17 obs
- Lesser Yellowlegs12 obs
- American Robin11 obs
- musk thistle11 obs
- Pectoral Sandpiper10 obs
- Blue-winged Teal10 obs
- Painted Turtle9 obs
- cutleaf teasel9 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 way/163674335
Day trips start here
- Olathe · 9 mi
- Lenexa · 15 mi
- Overland Park · 19 mi
- Kansas City · 27 mi
- Kansas City · 28 mi
- Kansas City Area · 28 mi
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