Waterworks Park
Waterworks Park is a park in Kansas, at a modelled elevation of 309 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the southeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Juniper Pocket Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Spirit of Kansas City passes 5.7 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 5.7 mi off the Spirit of Kansas City
- 7.1 mi off the Cliff Drive
- 7.1 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
- 23.6 mi off the Glacial Hills Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Kaw Point · 6 mi
- Scarrit Point · 8 mi
- Bird Watching Blind · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Juniper Pocket Park: 0.5 mi
- Carpenter Park: 0.6 mi
- Nall Park: 0.6 mi
- R Park: 0.7 mi
- Granada Park: 0.8 mi
- Scourge: 0.6 mi
- Scourge: 0.6 mi
- Lines of Corona: 0.6 mi
- See Red Run: 0.7 mi
- Kinetic Sculpture: 0.7 mi
- Pearl Harbor Park: 0.9 mi
- Vietnam War Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Helen S. Cuddy Rose Garden: 2.3 mi
- Bent & Ward Houses: 2.8 mi
- Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch: 2.9 mi
- East Building: 1.6 mi
- Concorde Nose: 3.0 mi
- Candy Cane Lane: 3.4 mi
- Hallmark Visitors Center: 5.1 mi
- Pedestal Mounted Traffic Light: 5.2 mi
- Badger Ridge: 1.6 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 2.2 mi
- Westerville Limestone Outcrop: 2.3 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 7.1 mi
- Hertha-Bethany Falls-Winterset Limestone Outcrop: 7.4 mi
- John Wornall House Museum: 3.5 mi
- Overland Park Historical Society: 3.6 mi
- Shawnee Town Museum: 3.6 mi
- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art: 3.8 mi
- Harris-Kearney House: 3.8 mi
- Helen S. Cuddy Rose Garden: 2.3 mi
- School Garden: 2.4 mi
- Rosedale Community Garden: 2.4 mi
- Rose Garden: 3.1 mi
- Japanese Garden: 3.2 mi
- Heartland Overlook Preserve: 7.4 mi
- Green Hills of Platte Wildlife Preserve: 10.2 mi
- Saeger Woods Conservation Area: 11.3 mi
- Northwood Park: 11.3 mi
- Charlotte Sawyers Nature Area: 12.5 mi
- Overland Park: 11.5 mi
- Overland Park: 11.5 mi
- Bowler Hill: 17.2 mi
- Arsenal Hill: 17.5 mi
- Nebo Hill: 20.1 mi
- Turkey Creek Falls: 1.9 mi
- Line Creek Double Falls: 11.7 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 16.6 mi
- Angel Falls: 20.4 mi
- Quindaro Townsite: 8.3 mi
- Delaware City: 17.1 mi
- Powell: 22.2 mi
- West Union: 24.2 mi
- Watts Mill: 6.9 mi
- Family Picnic Area: 16.3 mi
- Swimming Beach: 16.9 mi
- Swim Beach: 19.1 mi
- Pioneer Spring: 13.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Waterworks Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Hill | SE 146° | 342 m | 21.1 mi |
| Pilot Knob | NW 320° | 336 m | 23.7 mi |
| Bowler Hill | SE 126° | 330 m | 17.2 mi |
| Nebo Hill | NE 52° | 291 m | 20.1 mi |
| Minter Hill | E 95° | 288 m | 23.0 mi |
| Arsenal Hill | NE 49° | 277 m | 17.5 mi |
| Observation Bluff | WSW 248° | 277 m | 22.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 36 | 46 | 57 | 67 | 77 | 81 | 79 | 71 | 58 | 45 | 35 |
| Precip in | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kansas City Dwtn AP, 7 mi away.
- Northern Cardinal33 obs
- House Sparrow28 obs
- Monarch25 obs
- American Robin20 obs
- European Starling18 obs
- Ailanthus Webworm Moth18 obs
- Downy Woodpecker18 obs
- North American Wheel Bug17 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/469572237
Day trips start here
- Overland Park · 4 mi
- Kansas City · 6 mi
- Kansas City Area · 6 mi
- Kansas City · 6 mi
- Lenexa · 7 mi
- Independence · 13 mi
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