Picnic site · Kansas

Cottonwood Picnic Ground

Cottonwood Picnic Ground from directly overhead

Cottonwood Picnic Ground is a picnic site in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 1,033 m. The nearest named place is Cottonwood Picnic Area, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Historic Route 66 passes 148 miles off. 9 named places lie within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 1033 m

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: USDA Forest Service
Access: Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.11950, -101.89499

148.0 mi off the Historic Route 66, National

Around it

9 named places within 25 miles

Parks7

Cottonwood Picnic Area: 0.0 mi
Middle Spring Picnic Area: 1.8 mi
Point of Rocks Interpretive Site: 2.6 mi
Cimarron Recreation Area: 4.1 mi
Murphy Trailhead: 5.9 mi

Picnic sites1

Middle Spring Picnic Area: 1.8 mi

Historic sites1

Eight Mile Corner: 11.9 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:52	19:25	20:00
June solstice	06:29	20:33	21:12
September equinox	07:36	19:12	19:46
December solstice	07:58	16:54	17:35

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	35	37	46	54	64	75	79	77	69	57	45	35
Precip in	0.4	0.3	1.0	1.9	2.2	2.6	2.9	2.9	1.2	1.7	0.5	0.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elkhart, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element node/358642250

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