Butterfly Garden
Butterfly Garden is a garden in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 114 m. Buck Mountain stands 962 m to the east-northeast, 9.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Awbrey Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Over the Rivers and Through the Woods passes 19 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 18.6 mi off the Over the Rivers and Through the Woods
- 22.5 mi off the Cottage Grove Covered Bridge
Named places within 25 miles
- Awbrey Park: 0.0 mi
- Filbert Meadows Park: 0.6 mi
- Wendover Park: 0.6 mi
- Santa Clara Community Park: 1.0 mi
- Terralinda Park: 1.1 mi
- The Blessed Virgin Mary: 2.5 mi
- Pluto: 2.5 mi
- Neptune: 2.8 mi
- The Blessed Virgin Mary: 3.4 mi
- "Love is a Choice" Mural: 3.6 mi
- Gillespie Butte: 4.4 mi
- Spores Point: 5.1 mi
- Skinner Butte: 5.1 mi
- Crabtree Hill: 5.2 mi
- Centennial Butte: 5.5 mi
- Dragonfly Bend: 4.8 mi
- Meadowlark Prairie: 5.1 mi
- Nolan Mitigation Site: 5.3 mi
- Willamette Daisy Meadow: 5.5 mi
- Duck Island: 5.5 mi
- GrassRoots Garden: 4.9 mi
- Skinner City Farm: 4.9 mi
- Hays Tree Garden: 5.7 mi
- Matthews Community Garden: 5.7 mi
- Alton Baker Community Garden: 5.9 mi
- Eugene Japanese-American Art Memorial: 5.5 mi
- Rosa Parks: 5.7 mi
- David Minor: 6.0 mi
- Marcellus Tryk: 6.2 mi
- GAR Memorial Plot: 6.6 mi
- Oregon Air and Space Museum: 3.7 mi
- Eugene Science Center: 5.8 mi
- Lane County Historical Museum: 5.8 mi
- Museum of Natural and Cultural History: 6.7 mi
- Junction City Historical Museum: 7.3 mi
- Mim's House: 5.4 mi
- Nicolas Cage balcony: 7.1 mi
- Masterson Pioneer Cabin: 8.8 mi
- Living History Village: 8.8 mi
- Sarver Winery: 12.4 mi
- Lenon Hill: 5.1 mi
- Climbing Columns: 5.1 mi
- Franklin Perch: 7.0 mi
- Spliff Cliff: 7.0 mi
- Oak Grove Rest Area Southbound: 8.6 mi
- Oak Grove Rest Area Northbound: 8.7 mi
- Gettings Creek Rest Area Southbound: 19.8 mi
- Gettings Creek Rest Area Northbound: 19.9 mi
- Waters of Mormon: 19.4 mi
- Alsea Falls: 22.3 mi
- Green Peak Falls: 22.8 mi
- Chicken Shack: 11.5 mi
- Hull Spring: 22.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.4 miles of Butterfly Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buck Mountain | ENE 57° | 961.6 m | 9.1 mi |
| Mount Tom | NE 52° | 954 m | 9.8 mi |
| Bald Mountain | NE 46° | 881.5 m | 14.4 mi |
| Horse Rock | NE 46° | 872.9 m | 17.5 mi |
| Round Mountain | ENE 57° | 852.2 m | 12.8 mi |
| Hells Hill | E 84° | 746 m | 16.4 mi |
| Windy Point | E 81° | 639 m | 18.4 mi |
| Spencer Butte | SSE 167° | 629 m | 10.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:16 | 18:47 | 19:25 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 20:16 | 21:00 |
| September equinox | 07:01 | 18:34 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:45 | 15:50 | 16:38 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 41 | 43 | 47 | 51 | 56 | 61 | 68 | 68 | 63 | 53 | 46 | 41 |
| Precip in | 6.1 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 3.2 | 6.0 | 7.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Eugene-mahlon Sweet FLD, 4 mi away.
- Red-tailed Hawk24 obs
- fringe cups24 obs
- coastal manroot24 obs
- Western Honey Bee23 obs
- ribwort plantain23 obs
- Dot-tailed Whiteface21 obs
- poison hemlock18 obs
- western sword fern17 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/842892598
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