Windham Creek Park
Windham Creek Park is a park in Kansas, at a modelled elevation of 290 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the east-southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Austin's Park Memorial, a historic site 0.2 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 0.8 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 0.8 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
- 15.6 mi off the Spirit of Kansas City
- 16.5 mi off the Cliff Drive
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Blind · 6 mi
- Kaw Point · 16 mi
- Scarrit Point · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Austin's Park Memorial: 0.2 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 0.9 mi
- Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 0.9 mi
- Korean War Veterans Memorial: 1.6 mi
- Ali Kemp Memorial: 3.5 mi
- Miller Woods Recreation Complex: 0.7 mi
- Windham Hill Park: 0.7 mi
- Kensington Park: 0.8 mi
- Nottingham South Park: 1.1 mi
- Nottingham Forest Park: 1.4 mi
- Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead: 1.1 mi
- M101: 6.7 mi
- Candy Cane Lane: 6.8 mi
- Old Red Bridge Love Locks: 6.9 mi
- Concorde Nose: 10.1 mi
- Shim Sham Shimmy: 1.9 mi
- Prairie Fire: 2.3 mi
- Cloud Gate: 2.4 mi
- Hybrid Circle: 2.5 mi
- Spirit of Dick Molamphy: 2.8 mi
- Museum at Prairiefire: 2.3 mi
- Wonderscope Children Museum: 2.5 mi
- Historic State Bank of Stanley Building: 2.7 mi
- Kansas City Automotive Museum: 4.1 mi
- Prairie Oak Nature Center: 4.3 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 3.0 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 8.9 mi
- Hertha-Bethany Falls-Winterset Limestone Outcrop: 9.8 mi
- Badger Ridge: 11.6 mi
- Argentine Limestone Outcrop: 11.9 mi
- Resident Gardens: 1.6 mi
- K-State Garden Gallery: 5.9 mi
- Prairie Grasses and Wildflower Garden: 6.1 mi
- Pollinator Prarie: 6.1 mi
- Bird Garden: 6.2 mi
- Blue Valley Wilderness Science Center Wilderness Area: 5.1 mi
- Saeger Woods Conservation Area: 6.3 mi
- Heartland Overlook Preserve: 8.6 mi
- Children's Memorial Butterfly Garden: 15.1 mi
- Hillsdale Recreation Area: 18.8 mi
- Overland Park: 1.9 mi
- Overland Park: 1.9 mi
- Miller Hill: 15.8 mi
- Bowler Hill: 16.0 mi
- Observation Bluff: 19.2 mi
- Powell: 13.3 mi
- West Union: 15.9 mi
- Quindaro Townsite: 18.2 mi
- Kimpton: 21.2 mi
- Delaware City: 24.8 mi
- Swim Beach: 15.2 mi
- Windsurfer Beach: 19.0 mi
- Swimming Beach: 20.5 mi
- Miola Beach: 22.6 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 9.0 mi
- Turkey Creek Falls: 9.8 mi
- Line Creek Double Falls: 21.8 mi
- Watts Mill: 5.8 mi
- Family Picnic Area: 22.4 mi
- Pioneer Spring: 20.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Windham Creek Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Hill | ESE 119° | 342 m | 15.8 mi |
| Bowler Hill | E 91° | 330 m | 16.0 mi |
| Observation Bluff | W 273° | 277 m | 19.2 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 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:19 | 17:01 |
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 | 29 | 34 | 44 | 55 | 65 | 74 | 79 | 77 | 69 | 57 | 45 | 34 |
| Precip in | 1.3 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 1.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe 3E, 4 mi away.
- Common Snapping Turtle15 obs
- American Robin13 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel13 obs
- Mourning Dove12 obs
- Great Blue Heron12 obs
- Western Honey Bee12 obs
- Japanese Beetle12 obs
- Mallard11 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/544408567
Day trips start here
- Lenexa · 5 mi
- Olathe · 6 mi
- Overland Park · 6 mi
- Kansas City · 16 mi
- Kansas City Area · 16 mi
- Kansas City · 16 mi
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