Cape Fear Botanical Garden
Cape Fear Botanical Garden is an attraction in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 25 m. Gaddys Mountain stands 165 m to the west-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Riverside Dog Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Averasboro Battlefield Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Cape Fear Botanical Garden (80 acres) is a nonprofit botanical garden located at 536 North Eastern Boulevard, Fayetteville, North Carolina. It is open to the public daily (excluding some holidays and in event of inclement weather); an admission fee is charged. The Garden was established in 1989 to serve both Fayetteville Technical Community College horticulture students and North Carolina horticulturalists. It conserves and displays plant species and the plant communities of the Cape Fear River basin. The garden contains nature trails, a natural amphitheater, steep ravines with unusual plants, and a varied riparian terrain ranging from pine forest through hardwood hills to river banks. Cape Fear botanical gardens holds many events such as weddings, military balls, ceremonies, and business sessions.
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Wikidata Q629949, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 25 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 15.0 mi off the Averasboro Battlefield Scenic Byway
- 20.3 mi off the Meteor Lakes Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Riverside Dog Park: 0.2 mi
- Person Street Park: 0.5 mi
- Cross Creek Linear Park Trail: 0.9 mi
- Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry Historical Parade Grounds / Evans Metropolitan AME Zion Garden: 0.9 mi
- Lamon Street Park: 1.0 mi
- Fascinate-U Children’s Museum: 1.1 mi
- Independent Light Infantry Museum: 1.2 mi
- The Art Center: 1.3 mi
- Airborne and Special Operations Museum: 1.5 mi
- Museum of the Cape Fear: 1.9 mi
- Coolyconch Mountain: 13.6 mi
- Hams Hill: 15.6 mi
- Killens Hill: 15.9 mi
- Finlayson Mountain: 18.8 mi
- Mathis Hill: 19.1 mi
- Ghost Tower: 2.0 mi
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Howard School Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Ezekiel Ezra Smith Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Founders' Circle: 2.3 mi
- Wrc Fayetteville Access Area: 4.0 mi
- Gordon Butler Nature Preserve: 7.3 mi
- South River Preserve: 13.8 mi
- Wrc Sampson County Gamelands: 23.3 mi
- Wrc Sampson County Gamelands: 23.4 mi
- Cook Quad Sculpture: 2.3 mi
- Omega-Psi-Phi Monument: 2.3 mi
- Delta-Sigma-Theta Memorial Well: 2.4 mi
- Unity: 2.4 mi
- Bronco Sculpture: 2.5 mi
- Market House: 1.1 mi
- Clark Park Falls: 2.4 mi
- Cape Fear River Trail: 2.4 mi
- ZipQuest Waterfall Treetop Adventure: 6.5 mi
- Boxcar: 22.5 mi
- Cumberland County I-95 Northbound Rest Area: 4.4 mi
- Cumberland County I-95 Southbound Rest Area: 4.4 mi
- Mable C. Smith Picnic site: 1.7 mi
- Fayetteville Rose Garden: 3.8 mi
- Carvers Falls: 6.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cape Fear Botanical Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaddys Mountain | WNW 285° | 165 m | 19.4 mi |
| Johnson Mountain | WNW 286° | 162 m | 22.4 mi |
| Blues Mountain | W 277° | 155 m | 21.4 mi |
| Finlayson Mountain | W 274° | 154 m | 18.8 mi |
| Cameron Hill | NW 319° | 146 m | 20.7 mi |
| Round Top | NW 315° | 144 m | 22.5 mi |
| Coolyconch Mountain | WNW 297° | 141 m | 13.6 mi |
| Holmes Hill | NNW 330° | 140 m | 20.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:20 | 18:54 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 06:02 | 19:56 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 07:04 | 18:41 | 19:14 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:29 | 17:08 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 43 | 46 | 52 | 61 | 70 | 77 | 81 | 79 | 74 | 63 | 52 | 46 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Fayetteville (pwc), under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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