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Westside Park

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Westside Park is a park in Kansas, at a modelled elevation of 317 m. Blue Mound stands 318 m to the west-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Meadowbrook Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 13 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates38.80667, -94.93953

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
  • Trails West: 5.9 mi
  • Sprout: 8.5 mi
  • Theb: 8.8 mi
  • Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 9.7 mi
  • Copper Hopper Chopper by David Seitzinger: 13.3 mi
Historic sites
  • Veterans Memorial Plaza: 6.0 mi
  • Cannon: 8.0 mi
  • Dorothy Akin Memorial Prairie: 13.5 mi
  • Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 14.1 mi
  • Austin's Park Memorial: 14.6 mi
Museums: 40
Gardens: 23
  • Green Tech Garden: 7.1 mi
  • Monarch Garden: 8.7 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 8.7 mi
  • Bee Garden: 8.8 mi
  • Bird Garden: 8.8 mi
Attractions: 13
Ghost towns: 9
Peaks: 8
Beaches: 4
  • Swim Beach: 7.6 mi
  • Windsurfer Beach: 9.7 mi
  • Miola Beach: 15.9 mi
  • Bloomington Beach: 24.0 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Cedar Lake Falls: 5.6 mi
  • Turkey Creek Falls: 20.7 mi
  • Wakarusa River Falls: 22.3 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Watts Mill: 20.3 mi
  • Overlook Park Shelter 1: 23.4 mi
  • Overlook Park Shelter 2: 23.5 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Westside Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Blue MoundWNW 297°318 m14.7 mi
Fowler HillWSW 241°318 m15.0 mi
Mount OreadWNW 303°316 m19.9 mi
Shank HillWNW 288°304 m18.2 mi
Sanders MoundWNW 292°288 m23.2 mi
Observation BluffNW 320°277 m9.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2418:5719:32
June solstice05:5620:0920:49
September equinox07:0818:4319:18
December solstice07:3516:2017:02

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303445556575797769574434
Precip in1.11.52.33.85.15.34.24.03.73.31.91.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe Johnson CO IND AP, 3 mi away.

  • Common Snapping Turtle17 obs
  • Lesser Yellowlegs12 obs
  • cutleaf teasel11 obs
  • Pectoral Sandpiper10 obs
  • American Robin10 obs
  • Ornate Box Turtle10 obs
  • Blue-winged Teal10 obs
  • Painted Turtle9 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/164651589

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