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Berkshire Botanical Garden

Berkshire Botanical Garden from directly overhead

Berkshire Botanical Garden is a garden in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 267 m. Walling Mountain stands 675 m to the east, 9.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Berkshire Botanical Gardens, a park 0.2 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 4.5 miles off.

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Getting there

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Coordinates42.30030, -73.33570

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • West Stockbridge Mountain: 1.9 mi
  • Rattlesnake Hill: 1.9 mi
  • Monument Mountain: 2.0 mi
  • Dunbar Hill: 2.5 mi
  • Lauras Tower: 2.6 mi
Historic sites: 45
  • St. Faustina: 1.5 mi
  • St. John Paul II: 1.5 mi
  • St. Francis: 1.5 mi
  • Rostrum: 2.0 mi
  • Butler Seat: 2.0 mi
Museums: 37
Artworks: 27
Waterfalls: 26
  • falls: 7.5 mi
  • Bash Bish Falls: 15.1 mi
  • Lower Falls: 15.2 mi
  • Upper Falls: 15.2 mi
  • High Falls Waterfall: 16.5 mi
Attractions: 13
  • Edith Wharton's Home: 3.5 mi
  • concrete bases: 5.5 mi
  • stone pillar: 5.6 mi
  • balanced rock: 5.7 mi
  • concrete bases: 5.8 mi
Cliffs: 12
  • Devil’s Pulpit: 3.8 mi
  • Kennedy Cliffs: 4.7 mi
  • Clover Mountain: 13.4 mi
  • Corps Wall: 21.0 mi
  • Murdock Wall: 21.0 mi
Gardens: 7
  • Naumkeag Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Walled Garden: 3.5 mi
  • Flower Garden: 3.5 mi
  • Community Garden: 6.8 mi
  • Heritage Garden: 8.7 mi
Beaches: 6
  • Adams Point Beach: 8.6 mi
  • Iroquis Waterfront: 13.3 mi
  • County Beach: 16.7 mi
  • Oakdale Beach: 22.9 mi
  • East Beach: 23.7 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Area: 13.8 mi
  • Guilder Pond Picnic area: 14.3 mi
Springs: 1
  • Pond off Chair Factory Road: 9.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Rest areas: 1
  • Rest Area I-90 (West Bound): 22.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.6 miles of Berkshire Botanical Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Walling MountainE 85°675 m9.1 mi
Becket MountainE 89°663 m9.7 mi
Yokun SeatNNE 12°645 m7.1 mi
Mount WilcoxSSE 148°642 m6.6 mi
Perry PeakNNW 345°631 m8.6 mi
Harvey MountainW 281°627 m4.7 mi
Bald TopENE 74°624 m9.2 mi
October MountainNE 52°598 m7.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2919:06
June solstice05:1819:5220:34
September equinox06:4118:1618:53
December solstice07:2015:3916:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222432445665696860483728
Precip in3.53.13.73.74.14.84.54.24.54.73.64.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lenox Dale, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee37 obs
  • Green Frog21 obs
  • Japanese Beetle12 obs
  • Spongy Moth11 obs
  • Goutweed11 obs
  • Western Honey Bee9 obs
  • Ivy-leaved toadflax9 obs
  • purple-flowered raspberry9 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/29784653

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