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Alumni Memorial Garden

Alumni Memorial Garden from directly overhead

Alumni Memorial Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 120 m. Spruce Mountain stands 612 m to the northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Tang Museum, a museum 0.4 miles away. Lakes to Locks Passage passes 9.5 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Skidmore College
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates43.09609, -73.77749

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • North Side Recreation Park: 0.5 mi
  • North Side Recreation Park: 0.5 mi
  • Excelsior Park: 0.5 mi
  • High Rock Park: 0.6 mi
  • Maple Avenue Recreational Fields: 0.7 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • 9/11 Memorial: 0.7 mi
  • Spirit of Life & Spencer Trask Memorial: 1.2 mi
  • World War Memorial Pavilion: 1.3 mi
  • Saratoga Race Course Walk of Fame: 1.6 mi
  • Soldiers and Sailors Monument: 7.4 mi
Peaks
Museums: 41
Attractions: 25
  • Congress Park Carousel: 1.2 mi
  • Beekman Street Arts District: 1.4 mi
  • Whitney Viewing Stand: 1.4 mi
  • Saratoga Race Course: Backstretch tour: 1.6 mi
  • Yaddo Gardens: 2.2 mi
Waterfalls: 23
  • Snook Kill Falls: 3.9 mi
  • Saratoga Falls: 9.9 mi
  • Palmer Falls: 10.8 mi
  • Dionondahowa Falls: 12.1 mi
  • Middle Falls: 12.7 mi
Artworks: 17
  • Standard Time: 1.0 mi
  • Devils Armchair: 1.2 mi
  • Welcome To Saratoga Springs: 1.3 mi
  • The U: 20.6 mi
  • Chester Arthur: 20.7 mi
Gardens: 16
Springs: 13
  • Old Red Spring: 0.5 mi
  • Hathorn Spring: 1.2 mi
  • Congress Spring: 1.3 mi
  • Columbian Spring: 1.3 mi
  • Deer Park Spring: 1.4 mi
Beaches: 10
  • Brown's Beach: 7.8 mi
  • Haviland's Cove Beach: 14.9 mi
  • Sandbar Beach: 15.0 mi
  • Haviland Cove Beach: 15.0 mi
  • Greenwich Town Bathing Beach: 15.2 mi
Picnic sites: 3
Cliffs: 3
  • Maclachan Ridge: 19.7 mi
  • Cohoes Falls: 21.6 mi
  • Small Rocky overlook: 23.8 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Clifton Park Rest Area: 15.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.9 miles of Alumni Memorial Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Spruce MountainNW 322°612 m10.5 mi
Fitch HillNW 326°605 m12.8 mi
Hedgehog MountainNNW 328°601 m10.8 mi
Pond MountainNNW 340°562 m17.6 mi
Bucktail MountainN 358°555 m17.2 mi
Indian Cobble MountainNNW 339°550 m17.4 mi
Miner HillNW 311°526 m14.0 mi
Redmond HillNNW 332°507 m12.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3019:07
June solstice05:1619:5520:39
September equinox06:4318:1718:54
December solstice07:2415:3716:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F232635486068727163514029
Precip in3.42.73.43.83.94.85.04.13.84.13.53.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Saratoga Springs 4 SW, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Mallard224 obs
  • winged euonymus107 obs
  • eastern poison ivy68 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel59 obs
  • Spongy Moth47 obs
  • Eastern Newt45 obs
  • American Robin41 obs
  • eastern white pine38 obs

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

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1036984730

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