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Garbage Goat

Garbage Goat from directly overhead

Garbage Goat is an artwork in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 574 m. Mount Kit Carson stands 1,600 m to the northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Looff Carrousel, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. JCT SR 2 MT SPOKANE PARK DR TO JCT ENTRANCE MT SPOKANE STATE PARK passes 9.3 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Material
metal
Getting there

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Coordinates47.66051, -117.41976
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Tribal Gathering Place: 0.2 mi
  • Huntington Park: 0.3 mi
  • A Place of Truths Plaza: 0.3 mi
  • Glover Field: 0.6 mi
  • Fireman’s Park: 0.6 mi
Peaks
  • Beacon Hill: 4.6 mi
  • Little Baldy: 5.3 mi
  • Browne Mountain: 5.9 mi
  • Eagle Peak: 6.4 mi
  • Tower Mountain: 7.3 mi
Artworks: 42
  • Centennial Sculpture: 0.1 mi
  • Honored Keepers of the Light: 0.1 mi
  • Cagli, Italy Sculpture: 0.1 mi
  • The Seeking Place: 0.1 mi
  • Moon Crater: 0.1 mi
Nature reserves: 29
  • Riverfront Park Conservation Area: 0.1 mi
  • Elliot Conservation Futures: 1.6 mi
  • Downriver Park: 2.3 mi
  • High Drive Conservation Area: 2.8 mi
  • Palisades Park: 2.8 mi
Historic sites: 26
Attractions: 20
Gardens: 18
Cliffs: 17
  • Pine Bluff: 8.8 mi
  • Pine Bluff: 8.9 mi
  • Pine Bluff: 8.9 mi
  • Pine Bluff: 9.0 mi
  • Pine Bluff: 9.1 mi
Museums: 13
Waterfalls: 6
  • Upper Falls: 0.2 mi
  • Upper Falls: 0.3 mi
  • Mystic Falls: 3.0 mi
  • Liberty Creek Falls: 18.0 mi
  • Post Falls: 21.9 mi
Springs: 5
  • Goldback Spring: 6.5 mi
  • Griffith Spring: 7.4 mi
  • Mirabeau Springs: 9.2 mi
  • Big Springs: 11.7 mi
  • well 2520: 20.5 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Bald Knob Picnic Area: 22.5 mi
  • Big Spring Picnic Area: 22.6 mi
  • Long Lake Dam Picnic Area: 23.3 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Boulder Beach: 5.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.5 miles of Garbage Goat. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount Kit CarsonNE 36°1,600 m21.8 mi
Mica PeakE 97°1,598 m20.3 mi
Beauty MountainNE 37°1,587 m22.4 mi
Mica PeakESE 111°1,586 m16.9 mi
Quartz MountainNE 45°1,572 m22.1 mi
Horse MountainNE 45°1,552 m22.4 mi
Day MountainNE 34°1,536 m22.5 mi
Cable PeakESE 102°1,501 m19.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2219:02
June solstice04:5220:0420:52
September equinox06:3718:0918:49
December solstice07:3615:0816:01

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323542485763727061493831
Precip in2.01.31.81.51.71.50.70.50.71.52.02.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Spokane Felts FLD, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/10558408202

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