Missouri Botanical Garden
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Missouri Botanical Garden is an attraction in Missouri, at a recorded elevation of 157 m. Frisco Hill stands 247 m to the southwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Deidre, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Historic Route 66 - MO passes 0.3 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw. Its herbarium, with more than 7.5 million specimens, is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden. Its Peter H. Raven Library contains 85% coverage of all literature ever published on systematic botany and plant taxonomy. The Index Herbariorum code assigned to the herbarium is MO and it is used when citing housed specimens.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1859.
Wikidata Q1852803, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 157 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 0.3 mi off the Historic Route 66 - MO
- 4.5 mi off the Historic National Road - Illinois, National
- 4.8 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 4.5 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Mississippi River Overlook · 5 mi
- Mounted Binculors · 11 mi
- Mississippi & Missouri River Confluence Point · 16 mi
- Elk Hollow · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Deidre: 0.1 mi
- Maura: 0.1 mi
- Birth of the Muses: 0.1 mi
- Mother and Child: 0.1 mi
- Schomeyer Sunquest: 0.1 mi
- Emerson Conservatory: 0.1 mi
- Brightside Demo Garden: 0.4 mi
- Dorothy Park Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- GHV Entry Garden: 0.6 mi
- Hidden Alley Ranch: 0.7 mi
- Sachs Museum: 0.2 mi
- Saint Louis Science Center: 1.2 mi
- HealthWorks! Kids' Museum St. Louis: 1.2 mi
- Saint Louis Science Center: 1.2 mi
- Magic Chef Mansion: 1.3 mi
- Paul Kohl Memorial Garden: 0.3 mi
- Tower Grove Park: 0.5 mi
- Flora Place Park: 0.6 mi
- Botanical Heights Playground: 0.7 mi
- Adams Park: 0.7 mi
- Compton Hill Water Tower: 1.1 mi
- World's Fair Pavilion: 2.1 mi
- Forest Park Fish Hatchery: 2.1 mi
- Big Muddy Adventures at the Boathouse: 2.3 mi
- Wildlife Conservation School: 2.3 mi
- GHV Terrace Garden: 0.7 mi
- Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center: 9.9 mi
- Bellefontaine Conservation Area: 10.4 mi
- Horseshoe Lake State Park: 10.7 mi
- Tweed Prairie: 11.0 mi
- Gus Fogt Picnic Site: 0.4 mi
- Concession Picnic Site: 0.5 mi
- Tunica Picnic Site: 0.6 mi
- Gurney Picnic Site: 0.6 mi
- West End Picnic Site: 0.6 mi
- Caroline Loughlin Fountain: 0.5 mi
- Headwaters: 1.1 mi
- Cabanne Spring: 1.9 mi
- Webster Retention Pond Seep: 4.9 mi
- Falling Spring: 7.1 mi
- Government Hill: 2.1 mi
- Art Hill: 2.6 mi
- Big Mound (Historical): 4.4 mi
- Oklahoma Hill: 8.5 mi
- Clarks Mound: 10.5 mi
- Wise Falls: 1.4 mi
- Deer Lake Riffles: 2.2 mi
- Dripping Springs: 13.6 mi
- Creek Trek Waterfall: 21.2 mi
- Beaver Falls: 21.3 mi
- Broadway: 4.9 mi
- Columbia Bottom Conservation Area: 14.6 mi
- Times Beach: 19.9 mi
- Machens: 20.4 mi
- Wilkie: 20.5 mi
- Vilhauer Bluff: 9.2 mi
- La Charbonier Bluff: 15.6 mi
- Climbing Area: 22.4 mi
- Shelter bluff: 22.7 mi
- Stone Arch: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Missouri Botanical Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frisco Hill | SW 214° | 247 m | 19.0 mi |
| Antire Hill | WSW 247° | 237 m | 17.4 mi |
| Potato Hill | S 185° | 218 m | 23.3 mi |
| Bald Hill | WSW 246° | 205 m | 21.9 mi |
| Clarks Mound | ESE 103° | 196 m | 10.5 mi |
| Two Story Hill | NW 319° | 188 m | 24.9 mi |
| Turkey Hill | ESE 117° | 185 m | 21.8 mi |
| Fox Hill | ENE 65° | 182 m | 15.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:38 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:50 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:25 | 19:00 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:02 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 37 | 47 | 58 | 68 | 77 | 81 | 79 | 72 | 60 | 48 | 37 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — ST Louis SCI CTR, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 71001065OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/126455888
Day trips start here
- St. Louis · 2 mi
- Cahokia · 5 mi
- East St. Louis · 7 mi
- Fairmont City · 9 mi
- Ferguson · 9 mi
- Granite City · 9 mi
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