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Carrboro Community Garden at MLK, Jr. Park

Carrboro Community Garden at MLK, Jr. Park from directly overhead

Carrboro Community Garden at MLK, Jr. Park is a garden in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 148 m. Cane Creek Mountains stands 301 m to the west, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Martin Luther King Jr. Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Football Road passes 1.4 miles off. 36 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Carrboro Community Garden Coalition
Access
Yes
Fee
No

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates35.92591, -79.09137

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Park: 0.1 mi
  • Bel Arbor Neighborhood Park: 0.5 mi
  • Henry Anderson III Community Park: 0.8 mi
  • Charles Herman Wilson Park: 1.0 mi
  • The Commons: 1.1 mi
Artworks
Attractions: 45
Nature reserves: 42
Peaks: 36
  • Iron Mine Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Stony Hill: 1.6 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 1.8 mi
  • McCauley Mount: 2.6 mi
  • Big Hill: 2.8 mi
Historic sites: 32
Gardens: 23
Museums: 23
Picnic sites: 10
  • Small Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 3.7 mi
  • Large Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 3.7 mi
  • White Oak Recreation Area: 13.7 mi
  • Observation Platform: 18.6 mi
  • Youth camp tables, fire pit, wood storage: 19.2 mi
Beaches: 9
  • Bobbit's Hole: 10.4 mi
  • Parker's Creek Beach: 12.9 mi
  • White Oak Beach: 13.5 mi
  • Crosswinds Beach: 13.7 mi
  • Haw river beach: 14.0 mi
Cliffs: 3
Waterfalls: 2
Springs: 1
  • Ye Olde Valley Spring: 11.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Carrboro Community Garden at MLK, Jr. Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cane Creek MountainsW 274°301 m19.3 mi
Bass MountainW 275°275 m17.1 mi
Occoneechee MountainN 350°261 m9.5 mi
Red MountainNNE 24°243 m23.9 mi
Pickards MountainNW 304°237 m4.6 mi
Brown Elfin KnobN 352°234 m9.6 mi
Bald MountainNNW 341°232 m3.6 mi
Terrells MountainSW 226°232 m5.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2118:5519:28
June solstice06:0119:5920:37
September equinox07:0518:4119:15
December solstice07:2416:2717:07

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F404350596875797872605043
Precip in4.03.34.43.73.84.14.84.35.43.83.53.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chapel Hill 2 W, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer477 obs
  • Christmas fern173 obs
  • American sweetgum156 obs
  • Green Anole155 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel155 obs
  • American beech126 obs
  • Red-shouldered Hawk120 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail119 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/273839302

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