Reynolda Gardens
Reynolda Gardens is an attraction in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 274 m. Moores Knob stands 783 m to the north, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Reynolda House, a museum 0.1 miles away. Hanging Rock Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off. 13 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Reynolda Gardens are located in Reynolda Village, adjacent to the Reynolda campus of Wake Forest University and the Reynolda House, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The gardens are open daily with free admission. The gardens were originally part of a large country estate and farm (1067 acres) created by tobacco magnate R. J. Reynolds and his wife Katharine Smith Reynolds between 1906 and 1923. In 1913 the Lord & Burnham greenhouse was built to serve the family and farm, and to produce flowers commercially. Landscape architect Thomas W. Sears (1880–1966) designed the 4-acre (16,000 m2) formal garden for Mrs. Reynolds, starting in 1915. After the death of Mrs. Reynolds (then remarried as Mrs. Johnston) in 1924, most of the property was gradually sold or given away, including a gift of 300 acres (1.2 km2) to Wake Forest College in the late 1940s for its Winston-Salem campus. In a series of gifts from 1958 to 1962, the Reynolds' daughter Mary Reynolds Babcock established Reynolda Gardens by donating its property to the college.
In 1995 the college and the National Park Service performed extensive historic reconstruction to return the garden to its original design. Today the gardens include 125 acres (0.51 km2) of woodlands, fields, wetlands, and a 4-acre (16,000 m2) formal garden with greenhouse. Two acres of the formal gardens comprise the Greenhouse Gardens (designed 1917, 1920, 1931) which centers around a sunken garden divided into four quadrants, with grass lawns, border plantings, rose gardens, theme gardens, specimen trees, and boxwood hedges, as well as tea-houses, fountains, and pergolas. The other half contains the Fruit, Cut Flower, and Nicer Vegetable Garden (1921), which grows vines, vegetables, climbing roses, and espaliered fruit trees. The entire property also includes a 3/4-mile woodland trail, as well as a slightly longer perimeter trail (1.5 miles).
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Dates from 1914.
Wikidata Q7319614, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- 14.6 mi off the Hanging Rock Scenic Byway
- 29.0 mi off the Football Road
Named places within 25 miles
- Polo Park and Recreation Center: 0.7 mi
- Polo Park: 0.8 mi
- Leinbach Park: 2.1 mi
- Hanes Park: 2.2 mi
- Greenway Park: 2.2 mi
- Historic Bethabara: 2.2 mi
- Original Site of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts: 3.5 mi
- Clock Tower: 4.6 mi
- Lewisville Veteran's Monument: 7.9 mi
- Battle Cross Monument: 7.9 mi
- Balancing Act: 2.8 mi
- George Henry Black: 3.1 mi
- Coffee Pot: 3.3 mi
- Twin Arches: 4.2 mi
- Twin Arches: 4.2 mi
- Reynolda House: 0.1 mi
- NCMA Winston-Salem (formerly SECCA): 0.5 mi
- Bethabara Visitor Center: 2.3 mi
- The Winston Cup Museum Special Event Center: 2.7 mi
- Kaledium: 2.9 mi
- Baux Mountain: 8.4 mi
- Piney Mountain: 15.6 mi
- Stony Ridge: 16.8 mi
- Cooks Wall Mountain: 17.6 mi
- Flat Shoal Mountain: 17.8 mi
- Wait Chapel: 0.8 mi
- Tanglewood Festival of Lights: 10.6 mi
- Browder Family Cemetery: 11.2 mi
- Balanced Rock: 18.9 mi
- Railcar: 20.2 mi
- Evergreen Farm: 7.0 mi
- Ararat River Access: 18.2 mi
- Pitzer Road Public Fishing Area: 20.6 mi
- Dan River Bends Preserve: 20.8 mi
- Richmond Hill Nature Park: 20.8 mi
- Shacktown Falls: 17.2 mi
- Upper Casscades: 18.7 mi
- Tise falls: 18.8 mi
- Hidden Falls: 19.0 mi
- Window Falls: 19.1 mi
- The Kristin Hartz Garden: 4.0 mi
- Clemmons Community Garden: 9.1 mi
- Tanglewood Arboretum: 10.8 mi
- All-American Rose Selections Garden: 10.9 mi
- Hedgecock Strawberry Farm: 13.8 mi
- Cooks Wall: 17.5 mi
- Little Amphitheater: 18.6 mi
- Three Bears: 18.6 mi
- Moores Wall: 18.8 mi
- Indian Face: 18.9 mi
- Davie County, I-40 Westbound Rest Area: 14.8 mi
- Davie County, I-40 Eastbound Rest Area: 14.8 mi
- Davidson County I-85 Southbound Rest Area: 21.3 mi
- Davidson County I-85 Northbount Rest Area: 21.3 mi
- Fishing Island Picnic Site: 14.9 mi
- Ivy Bluffs Picnic Area: 15.4 mi
- Magnolia Springs: 17.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Reynolda Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moores Knob | N 0° | 783 m | 18.9 mi |
| Pilot Mountain | NW 325° | 735 m | 18.3 mi |
| Cooks Wall Mountain | N 359° | 707 m | 17.6 mi |
| Sauratown Mountain | NNW 344° | 683 m | 18.0 mi |
| Hanging Rock | N 5° | 641 m | 18.8 mi |
| Cole Gap Mountain | N 3° | 616 m | 18.1 mi |
| Ruben Mountain | N 355° | 547 m | 18.2 mi |
| Flat Shoal Mountain | N 11° | 490 m | 17.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 18:59 | 19:33 |
| June solstice | 06:05 | 20:04 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:31 | 17:11 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 43 | 50 | 59 | 68 | 75 | 79 | 77 | 71 | 60 | 50 | 43 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Winston Salem Reynolds AP, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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