Willow Park
Willow Park is a park in Wyoming, at a recorded elevation of 2,131 m. Granite Peak stands 3,904 m to the north, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Jim Smith Peak, a peak 2.4 miles away. Beartooth Highway runs past it.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2131 m
How to reach it
- On the Beartooth Highway, National
- 5.2 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Pilot & Index · 1 mi
- Crazy Creek · 3 mi
- Falls · 6 mi
- Pilot-Index overlook · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Jim Smith Peak: 2.4 mi
- Rock Island Butte: 2.9 mi
- Pilot Peak: 3.0 mi
- Index Peak: 3.3 mi
- Kuchunteka’a Toyavi: 4.7 mi
- Crazy Creek Falls: 2.9 mi
- Beartooth Falls: 10.9 mi
- Impasse Falls: 11.1 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 19.4 mi
- Calamity Falls: 19.9 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 10.4 mi
- Soda Butte Creek: 13.0 mi
- Reef Creek: 15.3 mi
- Sunlight Creek Picnic Site: 23.7 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 9.7 mi
- Soda Butte Cone: 17.3 mi
- Cathedral Cliffs: 15.1 mi
- Sunlight Falls: 22.1 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 6.3 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 6.6 mi
- Cooke City Historical Marker: 7.6 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 8.3 mi
- Wahb spring: 17.5 mi
- Rock Creek Vista Point: 21.0 mi
- Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.8 miles of Willow Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Peak | N 3° | 3,903.5 m | 13.6 mi |
| Granite Peak (Northwest Peak) | N 2° | 3,882 m | 13.8 mi |
| Castle Mountain | NE 46° | 3,842 m | 13.0 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | NE 42° | 3,785 m | 12.2 mi |
| Mount Peal | N 10° | 3,778 m | 13.6 mi |
| Glacier Peak | N 354° | 3,762 m | 12.7 mi |
| Mount Villard | N 358° | 3,735 m | 12.6 mi |
| Cairn Mountain | N 5° | 3,725 m | 12.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:53 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:25 | 21:10 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:40 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:55 | 15:52 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jul–Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 15 | 18 | 25 | 32 | 42 | 50 | 57 | 55 | 47 | 36 | 23 | 13 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Silver Gate, 8 mi away.
- Red Clover5 obs
- Mule Deer3 obs
- arrowleaf balsamroot3 obs
- Spotted Sandpiper3 obs
- Moose3 obs
- Yellow-bellied Marmot2 obs
- common yarrow2 obs
- bladder campion2 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/356507187
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