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Butler Park Community Garden

Butler Park Community Garden from directly overhead

Butler Park Community Garden is a garden in Indiana, at a modelled elevation of 251 m. Weed Patch Hill stands 322 m to the east, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Rev. Ernest D. Butler Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Indiana's Historic Pathways passes 21 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Bloomington, Indiana
Access
Yes
Getting there

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Coordinates39.17094, -86.54413
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Rev. Ernest D. Butler Park: 0.1 mi
  • Crestmont Park: 0.5 mi
  • Building Trades Park: 0.7 mi
  • The Waldron, Hill and Buskirk Park (Third Street Park): 0.8 mi
  • Seminary Square Park: 0.9 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves: 35
Historic sites: 28
Artworks: 16
Attractions: 10
Museums: 10
Cliffs: 7
Picnic sites: 5
  • Scoutcraft: 10.2 mi
  • Picnic Area: 10.2 mi
  • Eagle Quest: 10.3 mi
  • Shady Pines Picnic Area: 11.5 mi
  • Public Picnic Area: 22.1 mi
Gardens: 4
  • Wonderlab Garden: 0.5 mi
  • Jesse H. and Beulah Chanley Cox Arboretum: 1.4 mi
  • Selma Steele’s garden: 10.9 mi
  • Interpretive Garden: 17.0 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Cascades Falls: 1.6 mi
  • McCormick's Creek Waterfall: 12.6 mi
  • Upper Cataract Falls: 23.2 mi
  • Lower Cataract Falls: 23.8 mi
Covered bridges: 2
Beaches: 1
  • Paynetown Beach: 8.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.8 miles of Butler Park Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Weed Patch HillE 91°322 m17.5 mi
Bearwallow HillENE 72°313 m18.4 mi
Hohen PointE 96°307.8 m17.1 mi
Hesitation PointE 90°306 m16.5 mi
Cooks HillNE 48°292 m16.5 mi
Maple HillENE 70°291 m12.9 mi
Mount NeboNNE 34°291 m19.5 mi
Baughman HillENE 70°287 m14.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:5119:2319:58
June solstice06:2120:3621:16
September equinox07:3519:1019:45
December solstice08:0316:4517:27

Local time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293342536372757467554334
Precip in3.82.93.75.25.45.44.63.43.83.83.93.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bloomington Indiana Univ, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel176 obs
  • fortune's spindle156 obs
  • American tuliptree150 obs
  • American beech146 obs
  • American pokeweed139 obs
  • eastern redbud133 obs
  • Virginia creeper130 obs
  • White-tailed Deer120 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/882548379

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