Walnut Cove Recreation Area
Walnut Cove Recreation Area is a park in Missouri, at a recorded elevation of 131 m. Clark Mountain stands 439 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Chaonia, a ghost town 1.2 miles away. Great River Road - Missouri passes 41 miles off. 106 named places lie within 25 miles, 42 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 131 m
How to reach it
- 41.1 mi off the Great River Road - Missouri
- 52.8 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 25.4 mi off the Stars and Stripes Historical/Cultural Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Monolopy Overlook Platform · 10 mi
- Lookout/Ob Deck · 12 mi
- Lookout/Ob Deck · 12 mi
- HWY 51 Overlook · 13 mi
106 named places within 25 miles
- Childers Hill: 6.7 mi
- Butter Shell Hill: 7.0 mi
- Flynn Hill: 8.8 mi
- Lone Hill: 10.6 mi
- Bee OPress Ridge: 11.0 mi
- Lake Wappapello State Park: 3.9 mi
- Yokum School State Wildlife Area: 5.2 mi
- Yokum School Conservation Area: 5.3 mi
- Rockwood Point Recreation Area: 6.1 mi
- Eagle Point Recreation Area: 6.2 mi
- Chaonia: 1.2 mi
- Ojibway: 2.4 mi
- Taskee Station: 4.5 mi
- Kime: 4.6 mi
- Keener Cave: 9.5 mi
- Halls Bluff: 3.4 mi
- Devils Washboard: 7.3 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 8.4 mi
- Fry Bluff: 8.9 mi
- Eagle Bluff: 13.1 mi
- Mingo Wilderness: 8.4 mi
- Mingo National Wildlife Refuge: 10.7 mi
- Hilliard Access: 12.0 mi
- Duck Creek Conservation Area (Dark Cypress Swamp Unit): 23.6 mi
- Poplar Bluff Museum: 15.6 mi
- Margaret Harwell Art Museum: 15.9 mi
- Ellsinore Pioneer Museum: 21.2 mi
- Markham Spring: 12.9 mi
- Blue Spring: 23.2 mi
- Frisco Depot: 16.3 mi
- Poplar Bluff Depot: 16.3 mi
- Jesse James 1st train robbery: 24.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Walnut Cove Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clark Mountain | NW 311° | 439 m | 21.4 mi |
| Des Arc Mountain | NW 325° | 423 m | 23.0 mi |
| Mudlick Mountain | NNW 336° | 399 m | 20.7 mi |
| Rocky Mountain | NNW 329° | 387 m | 22.4 mi |
| Frenchman Hill | NW 325° | 383 m | 20.3 mi |
| Aley Mountain | NW 319° | 361 m | 21.2 mi |
| Green Mountain | NNW 333° | 336 m | 22.3 mi |
| Logan Mountain | NNW 338° | 312 m | 18.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:46 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:26 | 19:00 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 16:08 | 16:49 |
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 | 33 | 37 | 46 | 57 | 66 | 75 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.5 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wappapello DAM, 7 mi away.
- Spotted Salamander1 obs
- Western Worm Snake1 obs
- Pipevine Swallowtail1 obs
- Rainbow Darter1 obs
- Western Ratsnake1 obs
- American lotus1 obs
- Common Baskettail1 obs
- Northern Starhead Topminnow1 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/358065270
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