West Lake Marsh State Public Shooting Area
West Lake Marsh State Public Shooting Area is a park in South Dakota, at a recorded elevation of 510 m. Buffalo Hill stands 610 m to the east-northeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Armed Services Memorial, a historic site 4.1 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 510 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Lake Norden Recreation Park: 4.6 mi
- Gertson Slough State Public Shooting Area: 5.0 mi
- Opdahl Slough State Public Shooting Area: 5.6 mi
- Arnold State Public Shooting Area: 8.6 mi
- Hayes Slough State Public Shooting Area: 9.0 mi
- Pelican Lake South GPA: 17.6 mi
- Christopherson - Codington GPA: 18.2 mi
- Swan WPA: 19.4 mi
- Clarksean State Public Shooting Area: 19.6 mi
- Coplan WPA: 21.7 mi
- Lake Norden Historical Society Museums: 4.3 mi
- Donald Christman Toy Museum: 4.3 mi
- Salo Hall - South Dakota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame: 4.3 mi
- Mellete House: 20.3 mi
- Ingalls Discovery Center: 21.9 mi
- Armed Services Memorial: 4.1 mi
- Watertown Veterans Memorial: 21.4 mi
- Legends: 19.2 mi
- Showmobile: 21.3 mi
- Buffalo Hill: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of West Lake Marsh State Public Shooting Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Hill | ENE 58° | 610 m | 24.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:33 | 19:03 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 05:45 | 20:34 | 21:19 |
| September equinox | 07:17 | 18:50 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 08:04 | 16:04 | 16:52 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 12 | 16 | 28 | 42 | 56 | 66 | 71 | 68 | 60 | 46 | 31 | 18 |
| Precip in | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Castlewood #2, 13 mi away.
- Hunt's Bumble Bee2 obs
- common reed1 obs
- American dragonhead1 obs
- Common Longhorn Bee1 obs
- Marsh Dagger1 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/357088914
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