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Carpenter Community Garden

Carpenter Community Garden from directly overhead

Carpenter Community Garden is a garden in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 114 m. Occoneechee Mountain stands 261 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Carpenter Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Colonial Heritage Byway passes 13 miles off. 32 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Cary
Access
permit

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates35.82321, -78.86389

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Carpenter Park: 0.0 mi
  • Mullis Park: 0.1 mi
  • Battery Hill Park: 0.2 mi
  • Capital Park: 0.3 mi
  • Jamestowne Park: 0.6 mi
Artworks
Nature reserves: 51
Attractions: 50
Historic sites: 42
  • American Eagle Flights 3378 and 3379 Memorial: 0.1 mi
  • Battle of Morrisville Station: 2.1 mi
  • Eagle Project Troop 347 2003: 5.4 mi
  • Camp Craggy: 6.0 mi
  • Collapsed Barn: 6.9 mi
Gardens: 32
Peaks: 32
  • High Hill: 10.2 mi
  • Edwards Mountain: 10.6 mi
  • Boothe Hill: 10.9 mi
  • Bennett Mountain: 13.1 mi
  • Iron Mine Hill: 13.6 mi
Museums: 31
Picnic sites: 9
  • Youth camp tables, fire pit, wood storage: 7.0 mi
  • Lake Johnson Shelter 4: 9.4 mi
  • White Oak Recreation Area: 10.2 mi
  • Fountain Terrace: 11.6 mi
  • Large Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 11.9 mi
Beaches: 9
  • Crosswinds Beach: 9.2 mi
  • White Oak Beach: 10.2 mi
  • Poplar Point Beach: 11.2 mi
  • Parker's Creek Beach: 11.5 mi
  • Seaforth Beach: 11.6 mi
Cliffs: 5
Waterfalls: 3
  • Cedar Falls: 13.2 mi
  • Moosejaw Falls: 14.9 mi
  • Jumping Fish Falls: 23.8 mi
Springs: 1
  • Ye Olde Valley Spring: 16.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Carpenter Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Occoneechee MountainNW 319°261 m21.9 mi
Pickards MountainWNW 300°237 m19.2 mi
Brown Elfin KnobNW 320°234 m21.7 mi
Terrells MountainW 280°232 m17.3 mi
Bald MountainNW 307°232 m17.4 mi
Scarlett HillNW 317°228 m18.9 mi
Blackwood MountainNW 312°224 m16.7 mi
Poplar RidgeNW 325°223 m20.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2018:5419:27
June solstice06:0019:5820:36
September equinox07:0418:4019:14
December solstice07:2316:2617:06

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F414451606875797872615144
Precip in3.63.04.13.63.84.35.14.65.33.73.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Apex, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Cottontail77 obs
  • Green Anole75 obs
  • Northern Cardinal65 obs
  • Green Treefrog63 obs
  • Canada Goose56 obs
  • American Robin55 obs
  • Eastern Bluebird52 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail50 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.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/451596998

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