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Backyard Idea Garden

Backyard Idea Garden from directly overhead

Backyard Idea Garden is a garden in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 24 m. East Tiger Mountain stands 913 m to the northeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Veteran's Memorial Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Chinook Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Auburn
Access
Yes
Fee
No
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates47.31154, -122.22322

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Veteran's Memorial Park: 0.0 mi
  • Auburn Memorial Stadium: 0.1 mi
  • Frank Fulmer Park: 0.4 mi
  • Indian Tom Park: 0.6 mi
  • Bicentennial Park: 0.6 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
Museums
Nature reserves
Attractions
  • Emerald Downs: 1.5 mi
  • Clock Tower Bell: 3.7 mi
  • Midway Games: 4.9 mi
  • Riptide: 4.9 mi
  • Zooma Falls: 4.9 mi
Gardens
  • Heritage Flower Garden: 3.3 mi
  • Soos Creek Demonstration Garden: 3.4 mi
  • Elizabeth Frezi Garden Room: 3.4 mi
  • School garden: 3.4 mi
  • Schaefer Pond Garden: 3.4 mi
Peaks
  • Indian Hill: 8.9 mi
  • Echo Mountain: 10.6 mi
  • Gravel Pit Peak: 11.0 mi
  • Stanridge Hill: 12.7 mi
  • Indian Point: 13.2 mi
Beaches: 48
  • Sex Cove: 5.1 mi
  • Dash Point State Park Beach: 8.7 mi
  • Crow Beach: 12.5 mi
  • Owen Beach: 14.3 mi
  • Salmon Beach: 14.4 mi
Picnic sites: 35
  • Picnic Site #3: 3.7 mi
  • Picnic Site #2: 3.7 mi
  • Picnic Site #4: 3.8 mi
  • Picnic Area: 5.2 mi
  • Woodmont Country Club: 5.8 mi
Ghost towns: 13
Lighthouses: 11
Waterfalls: 8
  • Victor Falls: 11.3 mi
  • Far Country Falls: 15.1 mi
  • Doughty Falls: 15.4 mi
  • Coal Creek Falls: 15.6 mi
  • Fifteenmile Waterfall: 16.1 mi
Cliffs: 7
Springs: 5
  • Maplewood Spring: 10.5 mi
  • Duryea Roadside Hidden Spring: 16.6 mi
  • Garrison Springs: 18.7 mi
  • Ellison Spring: 21.1 mi
  • Canyon Spring: 22.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.5 miles of Backyard Idea Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
East Tiger MountainNE 46°913 m17.8 mi
West Tiger #1NE 41°891 m17.6 mi
Enumclaw MountainESE 105°849 m15.8 mi
West Tiger #2NE 39°841 m17.6 mi
Tiger Middle SummitNE 44°795 m16.9 mi
Taylor MountainENE 57°792 m18.3 mi
Brew HillENE 60°774 m18.5 mi
West Tiger #3NE 38°770 m17.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4119:22
June solstice05:1320:2221:10
September equinox06:5618:2819:08
December solstice07:5415:2916:22

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424447525863686863534641
Precip in5.84.04.43.12.11.70.70.91.54.16.25.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kent, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Least Sandpiper26 obs
  • western redcedar23 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco15 obs
  • Pacific chorus frog14 obs
  • Mallard13 obs
  • Brewer's Blackbird13 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel13 obs
  • California Scrub-Jay13 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/1314985386

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