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A Second Chance Community Garden

A Second Chance Community Garden from directly overhead

A Second Chance Community Garden is a garden in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 301 m. Pollocks Knob stands 407 m to the south-southwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Dornbush Rain Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Grand View Scenic Byway passes 6.5 miles off.

What to expect

Access
Yes

How to reach it

Coordinates40.45541, -79.87918

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • East Hills Park: 0.5 mi
  • Ross Street Park: 0.7 mi
  • Chadwick Park: 0.9 mi
  • Graham Field: 1.1 mi
  • Westinghouse Park: 1.3 mi
Artworks
Peaks
  • Cowboy Hill: 1.4 mi
  • Clayton Hill: 1.8 mi
  • Riverview Hill: 2.3 mi
  • Mt. Sycamore: 2.8 mi
  • Prospect Hill: 3.5 mi
Nature reserves
  • Churchill Valley Greenway: 1.9 mi
  • Sycamore Island: 2.8 mi
  • Briarcliff Park: 4.3 mi
  • Cottonwood-Sunnyfield Park: 4.6 mi
  • Oakcliffe Greenway: 4.7 mi
Historic sites
  • Pillars In Squirrel Hill: 2.0 mi
  • Pillars In Squirrel Hill: 2.0 mi
  • Negley Memorial: 2.7 mi
  • Holocaust Memorial: 2.8 mi
  • Blawknox Veterans Memorial: 2.8 mi
Picnic sites: 22
  • Picnic Place at the Schenley Plaza: 4.0 mi
  • Picnic Pavillion: 5.1 mi
  • Picnic Pavillion: 5.1 mi
  • Picnic Area: 9.6 mi
  • Upper Orchard: 9.6 mi
Attractions: 19
Beaches: 6
  • Thornburg Beach: 10.5 mi
  • Tiger Beach: 11.0 mi
  • Aquatorium Beach Left Side: 17.5 mi
  • Aquatorium Beach Left Side: 17.5 mi
  • Aquatorium Beach Right Side: 17.6 mi
Waterfalls: 2
Cliffs: 2
  • Hay's Wall: 5.6 mi
  • Fossils Cliff: 14.7 mi
Springs: 1
  • Francis Spring: 9.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.0 miles of A Second Chance Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pollocks KnobSSW 195°407 m14.5 mi
Herron HillW 269°384 m4.2 mi
Rich HillNNE 13°365 m9.0 mi
Mt. SycamoreNNE 26°229.2 m2.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2418:5619:32
June solstice05:5020:1320:54
September equinox07:0818:4319:18
December solstice07:4016:1316:57

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303140516170747366554435
Precip in3.22.73.33.23.94.73.83.73.32.92.93.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Braddock Lock 2, 5 mi away.

  • White-tailed Deer168 obs
  • American cancer-root144 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly99 obs
  • Japanese snowball98 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel96 obs
  • American Robin93 obs
  • mayapple90 obs
  • garlic mustard90 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1430384583

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