Sinking Creek Day Use Area
Sinking Creek Day Use Area is a picnic site in Missouri, at a modelled elevation of 216 m. Red Hill stands 410 m to the northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Echo Bluff State Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Great River Road passes 89 miles off. 151 named places lie within 25 miles, 28 of them named summits.
What to expect
- Operated by
- National Park Service
How to reach it
- 88.5 mi off the Great River Road, National
151 named places within 25 miles
- Round Spring: 1.5 mi
- Pump Lead Spring: 2.6 mi
- Fire Hydrant Spring: 4.8 mi
- Watson Spring: 4.9 mi
- White Oak Spring: 4.9 mi
- Bald Knob: 6.3 mi
- Tip Top Mountain: 7.0 mi
- Jerktail Mountain: 8.2 mi
- Cedar Point: 10.9 mi
- Coot Mountain: 12.6 mi
- Echo Bluff State Park: 0.5 mi
- Current River State Park: 1.6 mi
- Virgin Pine Forest: 3.7 mi
- Sunklands-Burr Oak State Wildlife Area: 7.8 mi
- Skunk Pond State Wildlife Management Area: 9.0 mi
- Echo Bluff: 0.7 mi
- Panther Bluff: 1.3 mi
- Upper Dugan Bluff: 3.9 mi
- Lower Dugan Bluff: 3.9 mi
- Bee Bluff: 7.2 mi
- Sinkin: 7.3 mi
- Rector: 9.0 mi
- Halcyon: 12.0 mi
- Cedargrove: 13.5 mi
- Turtle: 15.1 mi
- Joshua T. Chilton Memorial Access: 10.9 mi
- Flat Rock State Wildlife Area: 11.7 mi
- Cedar Grove Conservation Area: 13.2 mi
- Powder Mill Cave Natural Area: 15.1 mi
- Midvale Conservation Area: 19.3 mi
- Cross Country Trail Rides: 10.8 mi
- Welch Spring: 11.0 mi
- The Deer Statue: 24.0 mi
- The Gassy Pig: 24.3 mi
- The Gassy Pig: 24.3 mi
- Welch Spring Hospital: 11.0 mi
- Veteran's Memorial: 19.2 mi
- SHS Tiger Tank: 24.8 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 24.9 mi
- SHS Football: 24.9 mi
- Pulltite: 4.2 mi
- Beach 3: 11.0 mi
- Beach 2: 11.0 mi
- Beach 3: 11.1 mi
- Round Spring Natural Bridge: 1.5 mi
- Turner Natural Bridge: 12.1 mi
- Round Spring: 1.6 mi
- Skyline Roadside Park: 24.9 mi
- Dent county museum: 24.5 mi
- Bonebrake Center of Nature and History: 24.6 mi
- Horseshoe Horse: 10.9 mi
- Rocky Falls: 18.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sinking Creek Day Use Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hill | NE 35° | 410 m | 16.3 mi |
| Stegall Mountain | SE 144° | 409 m | 19.4 mi |
| Thorny Mountain | SE 139° | 405 m | 19.2 mi |
| Mule Mountain | SSE 147° | 403 m | 18.8 mi |
| Tower Hill | N 8° | 400 m | 16.7 mi |
| Wildcat Mountain | SE 130° | 385 m | 12.6 mi |
| Coot Mountain | SE 136° | 379 m | 12.6 mi |
| Tip Top Mountain | SE 128° | 377 m | 7.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:46 | 19:51 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:30 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:11 | 16:52 |
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 | 33 | 36 | 46 | 56 | 64 | 73 | 77 | 76 | 68 | 56 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 6.2 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Round Spring 2SW, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/12849279532
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