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Alaska Botanical Garden

Alaska Botanical Garden from directly overhead

Alaska Botanical Garden is a garden in Alaska, at a modelled elevation of 109 m. Triangle Peak stands 1,675 m to the east, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Rock Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Alaska Railroad passes 4.1 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates61.17702, -149.76039

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Baxter Bog: 0.7 mi
  • Scenic Park: 0.8 mi
  • Castle Heights Park: 1.1 mi
  • Chugach Foothills Park: 1.2 mi
  • Arnold L Muldoon Park: 1.3 mi
Peaks
  • Near Point: 3.9 mi
  • Snow Hawk Mountain: 4.7 mi
  • Rusty Point: 4.8 mi
  • Nunaka Point: 5.3 mi
  • Kanchee Peak: 5.5 mi
Historic sites: 32
Artworks: 24
Gardens: 15
  • Rock Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Anchorage Heritage Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Perennial Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Lile's Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Herb Garden: 0.1 mi
Museums: 10
Attractions: 6
Waterfalls: 4
Beaches: 2
  • Lyn Ary Beach: 6.5 mi
  • Beaver Beach: 13.6 mi
Springs: 1
  • Russian Jack Spring: 2.2 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Taku lake Picnic Site: 4.6 mi
Cliffs: 1
Nature reserves: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.8 miles of Alaska Botanical Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Triangle PeakE 100°1,675 m13.7 mi
Mount WilliwawESE 122°1,660 m9.6 mi
Temptation PeakE 95°1,641 m7.9 mi
East Tanaina PeakESE 111°1,633 m8.3 mi
West Tanaina PeakESE 112°1,605 m7.6 mi
The RampSE 130°1,597 m9.4 mi
Tikishla PeakESE 108°1,594 m7.2 mi
O'Malley PeakSE 132°1,570 m8.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox08:0119:1720:14
June solstice04:2122:1623:42
September equinox07:4419:0420:01
December solstice10:14—15:42

Local time (America/Anchorage).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Aug.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F111722364655595546331815
Precip in0.91.10.80.30.71.12.22.83.11.81.31.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Campbell Creek SCI CTR, 1 mi away.

  • Moose198 obs
  • Fly Agaric102 obs
  • squashberry79 obs
  • American Red Squirrel77 obs
  • American Robin51 obs
  • Black-capped Chickadee50 obs
  • woolly cranesbill47 obs
  • Devil's Club44 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.

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OpenStreetMap element way/623249112

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